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CSOs kick, petition NJC over indiscriminate release of detained kidnappers

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BY AHERHOKE OKIOMA Deep anger is currently brewing amongst security agencies and Civil Society Organisations, led by Bayelsa Youths For Transparency and Good Governance, BYTGG, a group known to be working with security agencies in Bayelsa to tackle crime and criminality, over the release of a

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Kidnappers On The Trail of Escapee, Kill Man, Vows To Return

Ihesiulo Grace 1 July 2024 0

Rampaging kidnappers in Benin City in company of suspected armed herdsmen terrorising travellers on the Benin-Auchi road have reportedly killed one Kingsley Umukoro on June 29th 2024 . Reports however emerged that the kidnappers who were on the trail of a man who escaped from their captivity leaving behind his family after he was kidnapped […]

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Northwest’s notorious serial kidnapper, Isah Rabo, others nabbed

Ihesiulo Grace 5 June 2024 0

BY IDIBIA GABRIEL Kaduna State police said it has arrested four notorious kidnappers, who have taken part in several kidnapping incidents in the Northwest region, while recovering firearms which include an AK47 riffle, a locally made pistol, and three cartridges. A statement signed by the Command’s spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, and made available to newsmen […]

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Kidnappers on rampage as runaway victim receives death threats

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2023 0

A victim of kidnap in Aduwawa in Edo State, Charles Michael has said that his life is under severe threat after he managed to escape being taken away by kidnappers who stormed his community in Ikpoba-Okha community as bandits to perpetuate criminality and abduct people . Recall that a US based Nigerian philanthropist Prince Dennis […]

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Kidnappers meet waterloo in gunfire exchange with police on Asaba-Benin Expressway

Ihesiulo Grace 7 June 2022 0

By Nosa Akenzua Three suspected kidnappers on Sunday met their waterloo after exchange of gunfire with police operatives in Delta State. According to a statement by the Police Spokesman in the state, DSP Edafe Bright, “Operatives of the Command’s Rapid Response Squad, while on undercover anti-crime patrol along Asaba/Benin Expressway, saw some armed hoodlums suspected […]

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Disputed Family Land : Man Allegedly Sends Kidnappers After Nephew As Plot To Kill Thickens

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Tension over the ownership of a disputed family land in Benin City heightened recently again as kidnappers on the trail of the embattled Okotor Emmanuel Oseiwe narrowly missed an opportunity to abduct him in a remote community in Abuja after several gunshots were fired on April 28th 2022. Prior to the failed kidnap attempt of […]

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How I had a close shave with death – Woman reveals kidnap experience

Ihesiulo Grace 14 February 2022 0

A young woman has narrated a horrifying experience in the hands of dare-devil kidnappers on her way to Enugu from Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. The incident occurred in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, which has become notorious for armed robbery and kidnapping incidents. Narrating her experience to journalists, Mr Blossom Okonkwo said she witnessed […]

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Police nab 3 suspected kidnappers of 126 students of Bethel Baptist School, Kaduna

Ihesiulo Grace 24 September 2021 0

Force Headquarters said in Abuja on Thursday that they have arrested 50 suspects, three of them believed to be among kidnappers of the 126 students abducted from Bethel School, Kaduna. Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba told newsmen that three of the suspects were among the 25-man gang that kidnapped the 126 students. […]

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Kidnappers welcomes new Kogi varsity, abduct 3 students, lecturer

Ihesiulo Grace 31 August 2021 0

Three students of the newly established Kogi State University of Science and Technology, Itakpe, including a female student identified as Jumai and a lecturer were kidnapped in the early hours of Monday. According to an eyewitness account, the students and the lecturer were kidnapped while returning from a night vigil at the Living Faith Church […]

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70 days in captivity: Parents of abducted Niger school pupils resign fate to God

Ihesiulo Grace 7 August 2021 0

*Say ‘we sold all our properties’ Parents of the 156 abducted pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school in Niger State say they have resigned their fate to God, after the kidnappers refused the release of the kids, after they raised N50 million as ransom. The parents said they have no money to pay the latest […]

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Abductors of Niger Islamiya schoolchildren ‘seize man’ sent to deliver ransom

Ihesiulo Grace 26 July 2021 0

An elderly man sent to deliver ransom to secure the release of the over 100 abducted students of Salihu Tanko Islamiya School in Tegina, Rafi LGA of Niger state, has reportedly been seized by the kidnappers. Recall that the school was attacked by bandits in May and more than 100 schoolchildren were abducted. One of […]

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We get high on tramadol, marijuana before operation- Kidnap suspect

Ihesiulo Grace 24 April 2021 0

A 37-year-old kidnap for ransom suspect, Bello Mohammed, has revealed how kidnappers and cattle rustlers get high on Tramadol and marijuana before any operation. The suspect who was recently arrested by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT), revealed that his gang spent a huge part of the proceed of crime on the purchase […]

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Insecurity: Kidnappers now demand rice, noodles, maggi as ransom in Abuja

Ihesiulo Grace 14 April 2021 0

Apart from large amounts of money paid as ransom by the families of those kidnapped, the hoodlums are now demanding bags of rice and condiments as part of the ransom. Armed kidnappers have targeted rural communities in the Kuje, Kwali, Gwagwalada, and Abaji area councils, abducting over 30 people in the last three months and […]

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Kidnappers invade Nigerian hospital, abduct patients and nurse

Ihesiulo Grace 20 March 2021 0

The police have arrested two suspected kidnappers, Abdullahi Danshoho and Illiyasu Salleh, who abducted two patients and a nurse at a hospital in Nasarawa state. Vanguard reported that the suspects allegedly confessed their crime after they were busted by the police intelligence response team. COVID-19 patients suffering from acute respiratory challenge lies on a hospital

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Suspected kidnappers open fire on Abuja residents returning from work

Ihesiulo Grace 8 February 2021 0

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, shot at commuters and injured many in an attempt to whisk away victims at an Abuja suburb. The incident occurred around 8:30 p.m. in Pegi community, within Kuje Area Council of the FCT, it has been learnt. The assailants reportedly, during the failed mission, attempted to abduct residents living in […]

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CSO commends Operation Safe Haven over mass arrests of kidnappers, armed robbers

Ihesiulo Grace 7 February 2021 0

Doosuur iwambe, Abuja  A Plateau-based peace and  advocacy group has commended the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Major General Lucky Irabor, on the new operational directive he gave to troops, Operation Accord 2, to ensure that criminal elements were denied freedom of action in Nigeria. The coalition, operating under the aegis of Coalition of Plateau […]

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Niger governor seeks judiciary, legislature synergy against insecurity

Ihesiulo Grace 25 January 2021 0

Saka Bolaji, Minna Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has called on the Judiciary and the Legislature to come up with stiffer penalties against bandits, kidnappers and their informants. Governor Sani Bello stated this while presiding over the swearing-in of Justice Aisha Lami Bawa Bwari as the Chief Judge of the state at the Government […]

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Ekiti Commissioner’s abductors reduce ransom to N15m

Ihesiulo Grace 29 April 2020 0

Findings by Daily Times on Wednesday revealed that the kidnappers that abducted the Ekiti state Commissioner for Agriculture, Folorunso Olabode, have reduced their ransom demand to N15 million. The abductors had on Monday, called the commissioner’s family requesting for N30 million ransom to secure the commissioner’s release. Olabode and one other were seized

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Police nab suspected armed robbers, kidnappers, recover N5m in Yobe

Ihesiulo Grace 12 April 2020 0

Two suspected armed robbers as well as three suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the Yobe state Police Command, the state Commissioner of Police, Sahabo Abubakar, has said. A press release signed and issued in Bauchi on Sunday by the command’s image-maker, Dungus Abdulkarim said “during the week under review, the personnel of Yobe command […]

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Bauchi Gov’s kidnapped elder brother freed

Ihesiulo Grace 8 April 2020 0

The kidnapped elder brother of Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammed, Alhaji Yaya Adamu Duguri has regained his freedom from captivity, the Senior special assistant to the Governor on Media, Muktar Gidado has said. Confirming the development, the Bauchi state police command said “the victim has regained freedom and reunited with his family today 7th April, […]