Sentences with phrase «by the hoodlums who»

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.

According to eyewitness account, the Magistrate and his friend were accosted by the hoodlums who opened fire on them thus forcing them to stop.

On Tuesday, gun shots boomed at the secretariat while dangerous weapons were wielded by hoodlums who insisted that they would not allow peace to reign at the secretariat.

«This shows that the recent crisis was truly hijacked by some hoodlums who took the advantage of the little crisis to unleash mayhem on the people of the town», Kwankwaso explained.

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This is my uncle, who was attacked by hoodlums simply for trying to go see Paddington 2.

The D.A. was after financial records which he thinks will prove that Frankie Carbo, the old Murder, Inc. hoodlum who enjoys the ominous sobriquet of Mr. Gray in The Industry, has been making a handsome living by picking winners in fights before they start.

The CP, who was represented by the Public Relations Officer of the Ekiti Command, at the parade of the suspects, said «the hoodlums whisked the woman away in he Nissan Sunny car.»

The Governor, during the inspection, also sympathized with of one of the securitymen of the premises, Mr. Olanrewaju Owoeye, who was beaten up and wounded by the hoodlums during the attack.

The state Commissioner of Police, Olukolu Tahir Shina, who confirmed the abduction said the nurse was abducted at his residence Tuesday morning by hoodlums armed with locally manufactured guns.

Traders and commuters also scampered for safety when the hoodlums were tear - gassed by the team of mobile policemen who arrived the scene.

Mr. Austin Okwor an operative in the Property Fraud Section of the EFCC Zonal office in Port Harcourt, had closed late for the day and as he left office, he was suddenly accosted by a gang of daredevil hoodlums who opened fire on him.

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.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams strike comic gold — or at least silver plate — as a hyper - competitive game - crazy couple whose suburban couples gaming party goes way off the rails when an equally competitive globe - trotting / high rolling brother to the husband (Kyle Chandler, cast against type) comes home, initiates a murder / kidnapping mystery game that is in turn hijacked by real hoodlums who play for keeps.

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).

The local hoodlums are led by Ray Winstone, who eats up any scenery unfortunate enough to cross his path and regurgitates biographical nonsense in a kind of crude and distracting echo of The Dark Knight's Joker.

In Meteor Man, Townsend plays the D.C. schoolteacher Jefferson Reed, a Good Samaritan who survives getting run down by hoodlums and struck by a meteor, simultaneously, the latter calamity imbuing Reed with various superhuman powers to fight one of Hollywood's favorite social ills in the 1990s — gang violence.