•Gunmen At least 2,583 people were killed and 2,164 kidnapped in the first quarter of this year, a data from Beacon Security and Intelligence Limited, a security risk management and intelligence company based in Abuja, has shown. The data, which recorded the number of killings and abductions across the country from January to March, showed [&h...
•Armed Fulani herdsman Suspected Fulani herdsmen have abducted the wife and house help of former Chief of Staff to Benue Governor Terwase Orbunde. Hon.Orbunde was Chief of Staff to former Governor Samuel Ortom, reports The Nation. He later resigned to contest the PDP governorship primary. He later joined the All Progressive Congress (APC) but ...
•UNICAL main gate The University of Calabar has announced that three students of the institution who were kidnapped about three weeks ago have been released. A statement released by the Public Relations Officer of the school, Effiong Eyo, said the students were released unharmed and have been reunited with their parents. Eyo said the Vice [&he...
•Segun Olatunji The national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of a Lagos-based journalist, Segun Olatunji, who was said to have been abducted by armed men from his Lagos home last week Friday. The union made the demand in a statement signed by its Assistant National Secretary, ...
Three days after his abduction, the whereabouts of the FirstNews Editor, Segun Olatunji, remain unknown. His family and the paper’s publisher, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, have raised the alarm, reports The Nation. They said despite their fervent efforts, there had been no word on Olatunji. According a statement by the publisher, Olatunji was whisk...
•Bulama Bukarti Bulama Bukarti, a security analyst, has said that the best way to rescue the abducted schoolchildren in Kaduna and Sokoto states is to deploy ground troops. On March 8, bandits invaded the LEA Primary and Junior Secondary School, Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted at least 312 students […...
•Troops A security expert, Bulama Bukarti, has advised President Bola Tinubu to deploy service chiefs and generals at military barracks to Kaduna State till over 287 schoolchildren abducted by bandits in Kuriga village of the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State regain freedom. Bukarti, who was a guest on Channels Television last night...
•A kidnap victim One of the kidnapped pupils from Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mustapha Abubakar, who luckily escaped has recounted his ordeal in the hands of his abductors. This was according to a report by BBC Hausa Service published online today, Monday, March 11, 2024. According to Abubakar, the kidnappers treated ...
•Gunmen Three worshippers have been killed and several others abducted after some suspected bandits in their numbers invaded a mosque in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. Although security agencies and government officials in the state are yet to confirm the incident, residents, told our correspondent that the bandits raided the ...
•Suspected kidnappers arrested by Amotekun in Ondo State Kidnappers of five pupils and four staff of the Apostolic Faith Church Primary and Secondary School in Emure, headquarter of Emure Council of Ekiti State have reportedly reduced their demand from N100m to N15million. The school bus conveying the pupils and their teachers, including the d...