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Adamawa Police Command’s Public Relation Officer, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, has confirmed the attack on Hong Divisional Police Station in Hong Local Government Area by some unidentified gunmen on Sunday.
Ibrahim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Monday that the gunmen attacked the station at 8 pm on Sunday but were repelled by policemen who engaged them in a shootout.
``They were forced to retreat in different directions and were disorganized after they were forced to abandon their mission.
"They scattered and could not regroup to attack other places as they planned", Ibrahim said.
He explained that no casualty was recorded on the police side except that a girl in the neighbourhood sustained minor injury from a stray bullet.
NAN reports that the Hong incident came three days after a similar attack on Maiha Divisional police station on Friday.
During the Maiha attack, in which two people were killed (a policeman and a civilian), the hoodlums also attacked Prisons, Customs, the Presidential Lodge, the Area Court and the Local Education Authority offices in the local Government.
Meanwhile, the Adamawa Comptroller of Prisons, Mr Andrew Barka, has confirmed that 11 out of the 35 convicts freed by gunmen at the Maiha satellite Prisons on Friday were now back in custody.
Barka explained that four of the convicts returned on their own while seven were re-arrested. While seeking the support and cooperation of the public in tracking those still at large, Barka said the inmates have been transferred to Mubi Prison.
Barka said the convicts of Maiha were serving various terms based on minor crimes.
A 26-year-old man, Rabiu Oriade, was on Monday arraigned before an Abeokuta Magistrates' Court for allegedly knocking down an official of Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC).
The Police Prosecutor, Mr. Augustine Ozimini, alleged that the accused on Nov. 22, at Agbeloba area in Abeokuta, drove a Datsun vehicle on the public highway in a dangerous manner.
He alleged that the accused knocked down the FRSC official, Mr Badmus Aderemi, while he was on official duty.
``Oriade hit Aderemi, carried him on top of his vehicle's bonnet and drove round with him till he was later arrested at Ita-Eko by eye witnesses, ``The accused drove the vehicle without a vehicle license, certificate of insurance nor a state hackney permit, which permits him to operate a commercial vehicle," he alleged.
The accused, who had no legal representation, pleaded not guilty to the three count charge of reckless driving, hitting an official of FRSC, failure to produce driver’s licence and vehicle particulars.
The accused was granted bail by Magistrate Idowu Olayinka in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case to Feb.7, 2013 for hearing.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday called on Nigerians to keep faith in Federal Government’s agenda of transforming all sectors of the economy. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Olisa Metuh, made the call in a statement ...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.
Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines says her doctors discovered the clot during a follow-up exam Sunday. Reines says Clinton is being treated with anti-coagulants.
Clinton was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital so doctors can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours.
Reines says doctors will continue to assess Clinton's condition, "including other issues associated with her concussion."
Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed optimism that despite the challenges confronting Nigeria, the country will soon bounce back as a great nation. Obasanjo said this at the weekend in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, at a meeting of...
A Gombe State House of Assembly member representing Gombe North, Hon Ahmed Jalo Ganga was, yesterday, abducted on his way to the mosque for his morning prayers at about 5am. Reports indicated that two people on motorcycle attacked and forced him to ent...