Sentences with phrase «by some hoodlums from»

Our officers had come back to monitor for compliance but they were prevented by hoodlums from carrying out their statutory responsibilities

Residents of Okerisa in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State have fled their homes after incessant attacks by some hoodlums from the neighbouring community.

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Ilori, who hails from Ondo State, was attacked by some hoodlums who were later identified as supporters of the Ondo State Secretary to the State Governor, Hon. Abegunde (aka Abena) who was also present at the public hearing.

Reports have it that the hoodlums went from street to street smashing vehicle windscreens and destroying shops before some of them were arrested by the police.

While recalling a recent protest by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch on the new LUC, the police spokesman said it was important for the necessary application to that effect to be made to prevent the protest from being hijacked by hoodlums which ultimately would threaten the peace of the State.

This alarm is coming four days after some suspected hoodlums were arrested by the men of the state police command in an uncompleted building at Alagbaka area of Akure and few meters away from the Ondo State House of Assembly.

Sources told our correspondent that Theresa was abducted by the hoodlums on her way home from her shop at about 6.15 pm last Thursday, after dropping one of her salesgirls along the expressway.

«That is why we had a situation where the duly assigned returning officers would collect materials and these would be snatched from them by hoodlums hired by desperate politicians,» he said.

One of the hoodlums, who escaped being shot by a special intelligence team from the Inspector - General of Police, said they had planned to attack a plane belonging to Arik Air.

Whereas the first novel dealt with an heiress kidnapped by hoodlums, the sequel focuses on her mentally troubled daughter (played with perverse lusciousness by Charlotte Rampling), who, while on the lam from a psychiatric hospital, is preyed upon by a clutch of grandes dames (Edwige Feuillère, Alida Valli, and Simone Signoret) scheming to get their hands on her inheritance.

The film presents two novelists, one (Medeiros) returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other (Laszlo Kovacs) in Japan, shown typing his next novel, and who apparently protected her during her stay and helped her fly back to France (she had become entangled in the theft of confidential documents and was kept captive, then chased by hoodlums after her escape).

Aided by two of his daughter's friends — her voice coach (Lesley Ann Warren) and an Echo Park hoodlum she knew from acting class (Luis Guzman)-- Stamp begins piecing together his daughter's last days while remembering her to his benefactors in abrupt, introspective flashbacks.