Sentences with phrase «armed policemen»

Although the Congress began by 9:00 am as scheduled, the Minister arrived the venue around 1:00 pm with a large entourage of heavily armed policemen, as the congress was rounding off.

PDP claimed that some eyewitnesses at Bomadi Waterside who confirmed the movement of armed policemen in hired speed boats, said they saw the officers in the company of the Minister's younger brother, Jonathan Lokpobiri.

«We recalled with much pain and dismay the installation of the late Dr. Jo Blankson as the Ha Mantse under Former President Kufour's administration with armored cars, mobile missile launchers, water cannons and teeming armed policemen who invaded Ga Mashie to have Dr. Jo Blankson installed.

The protesters occupied the state party secretariat for about two hours before armed policemen arrived to secure the place.

«I know we have had the vigilante before but we will give it legal functionality by inviting young interested men to come forward following which they will be profiled and attached with armed policemen for night patrol.

Fierce - looking armed policemen Monday stormed the Abuja residence of senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West senatorial district.

Zebedee said: «It must have been around 12:20 pm today (Monday) when armed policemen in mufti stormed my house.

Our correspondent reports that heavily armed policemen took positions within and outside the court premises before his arrival in court.

It was also observed that security had been beefed up at public places with units of armed policemen stationed at strategic locations.

And why had there been two armed policemen sitting outside his room for the first four days of his stay?

The implicit centerpiece of the show is Anderson's monumental tapestry, «die Leitung» («The Administration»), a distorted, oversized black - and - white digitally reproduced image of a lineup of black men forced to publicly submit to a strip search while armed policemen look on.

The heavily armed policeman gave him his card.

Melaye was drove to National Hospital in ambulance in convoy of about 15 vehicles with heavily armed policemen.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

However according to Graphic Online's court reporter, Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson, the moment the two men stepped out of the court room, they were re-arrested by the armed policemen who were stationed all over the court premises.

One of the four armed policemen, who accompanied the operatives on the operation and did not want to be named, told NAN that their presence around the house was to ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order.

«A team of about seven operatives of the EFCC in company with some armed policemen arrived at the residence at about 7 am and have been in the house for the past five hours.

«In Zaria, armed policemen had been gleefully wielding their arms all over in nooks and crannies of the town, including at the venue of the Ashura congregation.

You have the central ring where you have armed policemen that can be called in to assist in the polling units when the need arises.

A source, who witness the incident, told our correspondent that the heavily armed policemen were brief in their operation.

Some armed policemen and Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West were on Tuesday afternoon in a rough struggle at the Area 1 part of Abuja metropolis...

Addressing the aggrieved workers in front of the centre's gate which was barricaded by the armed policemen, led by the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, Taiwo Lakanu, Obisesan said that the order by Federal Ministry of Health that the troubled CMD should resume work was unjustifiable.

Dino Melaye, Senator representing Kogi West has alleged that over 30 armed policemen have invaded his residence in Maitama, Abuja.

The spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, Jimoh Moshood, has led at least 30 armed policemen to Zankili Medical Center, Mabushi, Abuja, where Dino Melaye is...

It was gathered that armed policemen and other security operatives fired live bullets as they were mobilized to the area after some protesters became violent and vandalized the APC office.

Before his arrival, heavily armed policemen had taken positions within and outside the court premises to forestall unforeseen circumstances.

Armed policemen were dispatched to different locations in Sokoto State yesterday in readiness for today's election.

Meanwhile, about 50 armed policemen have been deployed to maintain peace in the complex.