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Police and security agencies arrested over 115 suspects in coordinated operations across Nigeria, while bandits killed one person and abducted at least seven others in separate attacks.

Law enforcement agencies in Nigeria and Kenya arrested more than 160 suspects in coordinated operations targeting kidnapping, illegal firearms, and violent crimes over the weekend.

The former acting head of Mpumalanga's education department stands among 41 suspects arrested in a coordinated Hawks operation targeting an alleged tender fraud and corruption scheme that siphoned R114 million from the province's education budget.