{"id":213342,"date":"2020-04-25T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213342"},"modified":"2020-04-25T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:06:31","slug":"two-girlfriends-of-notorious-bandits-arrested-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213342","title":{"rendered":"Two girlfriends of notorious bandits arrested in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested two Nigerien sisters serving as informants to bandits in Anka local government area of Zamfara State.<br \/>\nThey were arrested alongside a male suspect identified as Shafiu Abdullahi, along Bagega road in Anka council area by NSCDC operatives on surveillance patrol.<br \/>\nThe male suspect has confessed to assisting \u201cShaho\u201d, a suspected leader of a cattle rustling and kidnapping gang by supplying him information and other items.<br \/>\nThe corps commandant, Aliyu Garba confirmed their arrest to newsmen in the state on Friday.<br \/>\nHe said the two sisters from Madawa district of Kwanni in Niger Republic, Binta and Balki Hussaini are girlfriends of a bandit identified as \u201cJijji\u201d terrorising residents of Anka.<br \/>\n\u201cPreliminary investigation activities against the suspects is completed and the command will soon transfer them to other sister agencies for further investigation and determination,\u201d Garba added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested two Nigerien sisters serving as informants to bandits in Anka local government area of Zamfara State. They were arrested alongside a male suspect identified as Shafiu Abdullahi, along Bagega road in Anka council area by NSCDC operatives on surveillance patrol. The male suspect has confessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,8404,271],"class_list":["post-213342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-bandit","tag-zamfara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}