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 SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH. The Senate today suspended consideration of the highly anticipated State Police Bill and all other legislative business at its emergency plenary session to honour the memory of Hon. Yaya Tongo, a member of the House of Representatives, whose death cast a sombre mood over the National Assembly. The upper chamber had reconvened from recess amid expectations that lawmakers would accelerate action on the proposed constitutional amendment seeking to establish state police across the federation, a measure widely seen as a major step in the ongoing effort to reform Nigeria’s security architecture. However, proceedings were cut short after Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the death of Tongo, who represented the Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency of Gombe State in the House of Representatives. Hon. Tongo passed away at Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja on June 12, 2026, following a brief illness. His death triggered a...

30 YEAR OLD WIDOW ARRESTED FOR SELLING HARD DRUGS IN KANO.(PHOTO).



A 30-year-old widow, identified as Jamila Abdullahi, has been arrested by the police in Kano State for allegedly dealing in illicit dr#gs. 

It was gathered that the suspect was arrested along Kwanar Ungogo area on Saturday, April 30, 2022 with 35 tubes of Rubber Solution.

According to the command’s spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, this comes a month after she was first arrested and later released after signing an an undertaking not to involve in such an act again.

Speaking in a statement on Monday, May 2, Haruna said, “She was invited on the 30/03/2022 at about 1200hrs and in front of her relatives and their ward head, she signed an undertaking not to involve in such an act again.

However, on the 30/04/2022 at about 1000hrs, a team of Operation Puff Adder led by DPO Ungogo Division while on surveillance patrol along Kwanar Ungogo area, intercepted the said Jamila, in possession of thirty-five (35) tubes of Rubber Solution

Credible information received revealed she is the major dealer of Rubber Solution that is used for intoxication in Ungogo LGA and environs.

On investigation, Jamila confessed that she is a widow, and she has been in the business of buying and selling Rubber Solution for over two years. After her first invitation she stopped, but later continue selling the robber solution.

She further confessed that she used to buy the intoxicants from someone. Having learned about her suspected arrest, the person was said to have escaped and left the country.”


 

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