•Kontagora Vicariate The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora has condemned the attack on St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State, where armed men reportedly abducted students, teachers, in the early hours of today. In a statement issued today by the Diocesan Secretary, Rev. Fr. Jatau J...
•Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State The Niger State government has condemned the abduction of pupils from St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri area of Agwara Local Government Area, describing the incident as “deeply saddening and avoidable.” In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Abubakar Usman, the governmen...
The Kebbi State Government has clarified the number of abducted schoolgirls still in captivity, saying two of the kidnapped students have escaped from their abductors. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Halima Bande, made the clarification while speaking to Channels Television in Zuru yesterday. Bande explained that bandits ab...
•Doctors Members of the Nigerian Medical Association, Federal Capital Territory (NMA-FCT) chapter, have threatened a total shutdown of services and to embark on a peaceful protest over the alleged inaction of security agencies to rescue their colleague, Dr. Chinonye Nwachukwu, who has been in kidnappers’ custody for the past 16 days. The docto...
A Kano State High Court yesterday ordered the remand of the owner of Asaba Orphanage Home, Mr Ogugua Christopher, at prison over alleged kidnapping and trafficking of several children from Kano. The defendant, who lives at Asaba, Delta, is being tried alongside two others: Hauwa Abubakar and Nkechi Odlyne, on a 15-count charge of conspiracy [&...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State has accused security operatives of abducting its House of Representatives candidate for the Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency bye-election, Princess Esther Ashivelli Dawaki, with 25 supporters. In a statement today by its Chairman, Sir Edward Percy Masha, the PDP alleged that the operation wa...
•Policemen Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested members of a notorious kidnapping and armed robbery syndicate responsible for terrorising Warri, Osubi, Agbarho, Sapele, and Ughelli. The arrests followed a directive by the Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, for the transfer of a kidnapping case reported at Isio...
•Police The Kogi State Police Command says officers attached to Police Mobile Force, 70 Squadron, Kabba, foiled the abduction of passengers along Kabba -Ayere road in the state. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, ASP William Aya, disclosed this to newsmen in Lokoja, yesterday. According to him, the incident happened on Friday...
An informant to bandits, Ado Haruna, who set the criminals against his nephew, Alhaji Bashiru Anas, and his family for abduction, has narrated how he got only N200,000 from the N13 million collected as ransom. The suspect, arrested by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), was among others recently paraded by the Force [&helli...
•Gunmen The kidnapped retired Archbishop of the Province of the Niger and Bishop Diocese of Nnewi, Most Rev. Prof. Godwin Okpala, has reportedly regained his freedom from his abductor. Most Prof. Okpala regained his freedom alongside his driver 25 days after his abduction in Umuchu where he had gone to attend the burial ceremony of […]...
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