A Lagos High Court, Igbosere on Tuesday heard how a ransom of N15.1 million was paid to the kidnappers of a traditional ruler in Lagos state, Oba Goriola Oseni. Sergent Dele-Ojo Oduayo, an Investigation Police Officer (IPO) attached to the Inspector General of Police force headquarters, Abuja,
Detectives from the Lagos State Police Command have begun a manhunt to rescue an Inspector of Police who was captured by hoodlums at Akodo area of Ibeju Lekki of the state. It was gathered that the police officer, identified as Musa Sunday, was captured while on rescue mission of a resident who was attacked by […]
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Adamu Usman, the member representing Toungo Constituency in the Adamawa state house of assembly. Usman was said to be kidnapped by the gunmen, who stormed his residence at Kofare Ward of Yola close to midnight on Friday. Confirming the incident, Othman Abubakar, Public Relations Officer of the Adamawa state police command, […]
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has begun an indefinite strike to protest the kidnap of a former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Patrick Adegun, and a theatre nurse with the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Mrs Margaret Aladeneka. In a letter to the state Governor, Ayo Fayose, the association’s state […]
The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday nabbed a teacher and two others for allegedly kidnapping a 62-year-old woman, Kudirat Adeboye. The state command said one double barrel pistol, two expended cartridges and six live cartridges were recovered from the suspects. It also said, the teacher, Ifeanyi Chukwuleta, Kolawole Alani and Rasheed Adetunji were arrested […]
As the spate of child kidnapping reaches alarming rate in Lagos, a firm, Background Check International (BCI), will today flag off a national awareness and sensitisation event among working mothers in Nigeria. The company said the event with the theme: “Averting the Ris-ing Spate of Child Kidnapping in Nigeria”, also forms part of its corporate […]
The Ogun Police command, on Monday, has rescued another five-year-old kid, Abraham Adeyemi, who was abducted in a non – descript location in Lagos, on Sunday. Master Abraham, who gave his parents’ name as “Mummy Sarah and Daddy Sarah” was kidnapped by unknown persons in Lagos, and rescued at Imedu – Nla, by the Police […]
The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Saturday said that the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno state on April 14, 2014, was to present the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan as incompetent. In a message posted on his personal […]
Five ExxonMobil personnel at Floating Storage and Offloading Vessel (FSO) in Ibeno Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State have been kidnapped by gunmen. An inside source who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that five indigenous personnel who were working offshore at ExxonMobil were kidnapped on Monday at FSO by militants. He said that due to […]
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime” — Aristotle. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living” — Gail Sheehy. The seed that had been sown by elements of evil extraction in Nigeria had been producing fruits and the fruits have been poisonous ones. I am not […]
Anxiety has gripped family members and friends of the Edo State Deputy Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Usman Mogaji, whose whereabouts are still unknown while they allege being harassed by soldiers. His family members also alleged that soldiers from the Nigerian Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in Auchi, arrested the […]
A Delta State High Court sitting at Ughelli in Delta State has sentenced one David Tamarakpo Pade to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping a woman. The kidnapped woman, Mrs. Roli Awala, is wife to a retired judge of the Court of Appeal. The court also sentenced two of his accomplices to […]
Sixteen Cameroonians have been kidnapped in northeastern Cameroon in an alleged attack by armed militia from the Central African Republic (CAR), security sources said on Friday. The attack took place on Thursday night in Gbabio village, near the border with the CAR, and is thought to have been led by rebel chief Abdoulaye Miskine. “The […]