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Unknown Gunmen Kidnap Adamawa Lawmaker, Usman

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, […]
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BCI Educates Working Mothers on Security

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 […]
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Ogun Police Rescue Kidnapped Boy in Lagos

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 […]
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Chibok Girls Were Kidnapped To Present Jonathan’s Administration As Incompetent- Okupe

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 […]
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Gunmen Kidnap Five Exxonmobil Staff in a’Ibom

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 […]
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NIGERIA: Country in Need of Patriotic Leaders

“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 […]
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Anxiety as Whereabouts of Edo APC Chieftain Remain Unclear

  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 […]
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16 Cameroonians kidnapped near CAR border

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 […]