The Niger State Police Command has said that on May 30, 2025, at about 4 p.m., a report received at Bosso Division indicated that on May 27, 2025, at about 2:30 p.m., a victim/tenant who resides at El-Waziri area of Minna returned home from work and noticed that unknown persons had broken into his house and stolen household items such as electrical appliances and other property to an unknown destination.

According to a statement issued to newsmen in Minna by the spokesperson of the command, SP Wasiu Abiodun disclosed that the items included a 32-inch LG plasma television set, an electric cooking stove, a half bag of charcoal, two extension boxes, a 6kg gas cylinder, an electric blender, three kettles, three cooking pots, two electric pressing irons, three rubber basins, eighteen pieces of wrappers, rubber cups, rubber baskets, a set of white coolers, and other kitchen utensils, all estimated to cost one million naira.

The statement stressed that as a result of this, an intelligence-led investigation was carried out, leading to the arrest of a suspect on June 3, 2025, named Nana Mubarak, 24 years old, a female from Angwan-Biri, who is the daughter of the landlady, a housewife, and nursing mother. A search was conducted in her house, and all the stolen items except the plasma television were recovered.

During interrogation, she confessed to the crime, stating that she conveyed the items on her head to her home while the victims (the couple) were away, and that she sold the plasma TV to one Abdullahi Aliyu of Kasuwan-Gwari, Minna, for fifty-five thousand naira.

It was further added that the said TV was also recovered from the receiver, and both suspects have been charged to court accordingly.

In a similar development, the command spokesperson, SP Wasiu Abiodun, also revealed that on June 7, 2025, at about 5 p.m., information received by the police operatives of ‘B’ Division, Bida, indicated that one Ndagi Mohammed of Ndejiko village in Edati Local Council of the state was seen with some rolls of electric cable.

On receipt of the information, the detectives mobilized and arrested the suspect.

The statement noted that during interrogation, he confessed to vandalizing some electric poles at Ndejiko village on June 5, 2025, and was looking for a place to sell the items before his arrest.

The exhibits were recovered, and the suspect is in custody for further investigation and prosecution. (The Guardian: Text, Excluding Headline)