Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has assured residents of Kurmin Wali community that all those abducted during Sunday’s attack will soon be reunited with their families. Gunmen attacked three churches in the community on Sunday, abducting about 167 worshippers. Speaking during a visit to the area, Sani said the state government was working closely […]
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Edo State Branch, has declared that the ongoing strike action by doctors in the state will continue due to the unacceptable insecurity situation in the state. The Edo NMA expressed strong disapproval of the prevailing insecurity, emphasizing that services will remain suspended until the safe release of their […]
The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old woman, Merit Alice, for faking her own abduction to settle a debt of N3.6 million entrusted to her by her brother. Alice was said to have used the funds—initially meant for the purchase of a tricycle—to fund her bridal shower and lodge friends during her wedding […]
Barely few months after prematurely truncating the political ambition of his elder brother by working against him in the ward primary leading to the emergence of a popular candidate as the flag-bearer of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming local government council election in Abia State, a man identified as Chibueze Oti has narrowly […]
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 the notorious Icelander Confraternity was arrested alongside […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 a statement disclosing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]