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 notorious gang of kidnappers by a court despite confessing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 by unknown […]
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 […]
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, […]