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Kidnap suspect narrates how gang beheaded five vigilantes in Rivers

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2020 0

By Chioma Joseph A 21-year-old kidnap for ransom suspect, Onyebuchi Amadi, allegedly involved in the killing of five members of a local vigilance group in Rumuodogbo Community, Emohua Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State, known as OSPAC, has been arrested. Amadi, said to be a member of

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Two Zamfara Sharia Court judges kidnapped

Ihesiulo Grace 12 September 2020 0

Two Sharia court judges from Zamfara State have been reportedly kidnapped while returning from a trip to the Niger Republic on Friday, an official has confirmed. The judges, Sabiu Abdullahi and Shafi’i Jangebe, were abducted on their way back to Zamfara after a trip to Niger Republic for a programme. READ ALSO: Police kill notorious […]

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Police arrest 4 kidnappers of Syrian National in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 18 August 2020 0

By Chioma Joseph Four suspects allegedly involved in the kidnap of a Syrian national, Lungyn Camal, at Eko Atlantic, in Victoria Island, have been arrested by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, Lagos State Police Command. The suspects, Ayeni John, 45, Tijani Gafari, 38, Ojonla Oyetakin, 30, and Paul Orimisan, 38, were allegedly responsible for many […]

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Passengers excape kidnap on Abuja-Kaduna highway

Ihesiulo Grace 26 June 2020 0

Abuja – Troops of Operation Thunder Strike under the auspices of the ongoing Operation Accord, on Thursday, June 25, foiled an attempted kidnap of passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway by armed bandits, Defence Headquarters said. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Friday, said the failed attempt took place between

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20yrs old man arrested for attempting to kidnap 2yrs old baby in Kano

Ihesiulo Grace 21 June 2020 0

A 20-year-old man, was on Saturday, nabbed by the police, following his failed attempt to kidnap a two-year-old baby, on Aba road, Sabon Gari, Kano State. The kidnapper was said to have been rescued by the police from the hands of the angry mob, who had earlier descended on him. The man, name withheld, according […]

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Why Buhari’s Aide Makes U-turn, on Ese Oruru’s Kidnap comments

Ihesiulo Grace 23 May 2020 0

Bashir Ahmad, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, has recanted comments where he promised a Twitter user that he would intervene in changing the conviction of a child trafficker and rapist. The Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, had sentenced Yunusa Dahiru (AKA Yellow), to 26 years imprisonment for child trafficking […]

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Duffy shares account of kidnap

Ihesiulo Grace 7 April 2020 0

Aimee Duffy, was her sophomore album Endlessly (2010), and for the majority of the 2010s after years of success in the late 2000s fans across the world had been wondering where, exactly, the Mercy singer “disappeared off to.” Nearly six weeks after publicly revealing she had been recovering from being “raped, drugged and held captive,” Duffy, the Welsh pop icon, has issued

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ZMSG confirms kidnap of district head, 2 others

Ihesiulo Grace 21 March 2020 0

Gusau – Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, has confirmed the kidnap of the District Head of Wuya in Anka Local Government Area of the state. Speaking to in Gusau on Saturday, Dauran said, “it is lamentable that these unrepentant bandits can still come into communities to carryout criminal activities in […]

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Ataga’s wife killing reason Kaduna NMA won’t provide services at odd hours

Ihesiulo Grace 7 February 2020 0

Kaduna – The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has said that it will no longer allow its members to provide services at odd hours because of insecurity. The Kaduna State Chairman of the association, Dr Stephen Kache, said this at a news conference on Tuesday in Kaduna, following the kidnap and murder of the wife of […]

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Bandits kill 35, kidnap 58, ask for N100m ransom in Kaduna

Ihesiulo Grace 14 January 2020 0

President of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Mr. Jonathan Asake has been told that about 35 people have been reportedly killed while 58 others were said to have been abducted following the invasion of 10 communities by bandits in Chikun and Birnin Gwari Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Kaduna State. According to Pastor Habila Sarkin […]

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MURIC decries kidnap of 9 Muslim children by Christians

Ihesiulo Grace 14 October 2019 0

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned what it described as kidnapping for Christ. MURIC claimed that nine Muslim children were converted to Christianity and sold into slavery. The Islamic group said in a statement signed by Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Monday: “Kidnappers have taken over the house of God. The phenomenon of kidnapping for […]

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Police confirms kidnap of 4 persons in Kuje, FCT

Ihesiulo Grace 8 October 2019 0

Kuje (FCT) – The Kuje Police Division in FCT has confirmed the kidnap of four persons by unknown gunmen at Pegi community in Kuje Area Council. 12 corps members to repeat service year in Niger The Divisional Crime 2-i-c Surveillance, Insp. Fidelis Urban, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kuje on Tuesday that […]

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100 level student kidnaps own sister in Taraba

Ihesiulo Grace 4 October 2019 0

The Police command in Taraba on Friday arrested a 22-year-old Abdulbasit Umar, a 100 level student of Computer Science at the Adamawa State University, Jalingo, suspected to have kidnapped his six-year-old sister. How to get over a breakup Mr David Misal, the Public Relations Officer of the command, who paraded the suspect alongside two of […]

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Police confirm kidnap of Kaduna school girls, others

Ihesiulo Grace 3 October 2019 0

The Nigerian police have confirmed the kidnapning of six students and two teachers from a private school, Engravers College, a mixed-gender secondary school in Kaduna State at about 12:10 p.m on Wednesday. The attackers stormed Engravers College, a mixed-gender school near Kakau Daji village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and took away […]

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Kidnapping: Police rescues 3 ABU student

Ihesiulo Grace 29 August 2019 0

The three students of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU (Zaria) abducted on Monday along Abuja-Kaduna highway have been rescued according to the Kaduna State Police Command. The Command’s Public Relations Officers, DSP Yakubu Sabo, however, said in a press statement issued on Wednesday in Kaduna, that three other persons were still being held by the kidnappers. […]

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Police foil kidnap attempt of senior Customs Officer, family members in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 18 June 2018 0

An attempt to kidnap a Deputy Comptroller of Customs, her younger brother and her son has been foiled by police detectives attached to Area-D-Command, Mushin, Lagos on Saturday. It was gathered that one Yomi Odudare had been calling the younger brother of the Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Barrister Yisa Theophilus for a business deal and […]

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Sergeant Bako is fake, says Nigerian Army

Ihesiulo Grace 26 March 2018 0

The Nigerian Army has dismissed reports credited to a certain Sergeant David Bako who claimed he was part of a phantom kidnap of Dapchi girls with the hope of boosting President Mohammadu Buhari’s credentials.   The army stated this in a statement signed by the director army public relations Brigadier- General Texas Chukwu that the […]

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#DapchiGirls: Boko Haram Returns Kidnapped School Girls, Five Dead

Ihesiulo Grace 21 March 2018 0

Boko Haram on Wednesday morning returned all the recently abducted school girls in the town of Dapchi in Nigeria’s Yobe State. One hundred and ten schoolgirls were abducted by the group in February this year in an attack similar to what occurred in 2014 in neighbouring Borno State. Daily Times gathered that five of the […]

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Nigerian government sets up probe committee over Dapchi girls kidnap

Ihesiulo Grace 27 February 2018 0

The Nigerian government has set up a committee to probe the circumstances leading to the abduction of 110 girls still missing from a school in Dapchi, Yobe state. A faction of Boko Haram terrorists is believed to have kidnapped the schoolgirls when they attacked the Dapchi community last week Monday. On Monday, the army and police […]

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Rivers killings: Police arrest principal suspect of Omoku killings Okotubo

Ihesiulo Grace 11 January 2018 0

The Nigeria Police has arrested one of the principal suspects of the notorious kidnap for ransom gang that killed over 20 people in Omoku communities in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State in the early hours of new year day, 1st January 2018. The suspect ,one Desmond Okotubo, 32yrs, a native of Egbenma from […]