•Bandits Residents of Kuchi, an agrarian community in Munya Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, continue to suffer as 148 farmers remain in captivity fifty-three days after a devastating bandit raid on May 24, 2024. The bandits, numbering over 100, abducted the farmers, including pregnant women and children, and have since demanded ran...
•Osun PPRO, Yemisi Opalola Yesterday, Osun State Police Command paraded three cult members of the Aye Confraternity for allegedly abduction and killing of two middle-aged men, Kelechi Agha and Tega Robinson, at Iperindo in the Atakumosa East local government area of the state. The evil perpetrators, who were later apprehended by the Anti-Kidna...
•Gunmen 48 hours after the abduction of two journalists and their family members in Kaduna state, their whereabouts have remained unknown. It was earlier reported how armed men stormed Danhonu community in Millennium city of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna and raided the houses of the reporters of The Nation newspaper, Alhaji AbdulGafar...
•Actor Praise The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old actor identified as Praise for an alleged abduction and defilement of a 14-year-old girl. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement today. The statement partly reads, “The Divisional Police Officer of Mowe Division has ...
Thirty children abducted by bandits at Kasai village in the Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State have been freed. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Katsina State Police Command, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, confirmed this to our correspondent today, reports Channels TV. He noted that their release followed a concerted effort by the c...
•Sheik Gumi Kaduna-based Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has revealed his intention to dialogue with bandits who abducted about 287 schoolchildren from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. Gumi said this in a bid to facilitate the release of the abducted school children should ...
•Bandits The threats of clampdown on bandits and terrorists abducting schoolchildren seem to have little or no effect on the terrorists as 15 pupils of an Islamiya school in Sokoto State were kidnapped in the early hours of yesterday. This comes after Thursday’s abduction of 287 schoolchildren in Kaduna State. On Wednesday, over 200 Internally...
•Lea Government Primary School Negotiations for the release of no fewer than 287 abducted pupils and teachers of the Government Secondary School and LEA Primary School, Kuriga 1, in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have begun. A highly placed source in the Kaduna State Government House, who is close to the negotiations [&helli...
•Boko Haram insurgents The United Nations (UN) yesterday strongly condemned the abduction of internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys and girls, in Borno State. The insurgents struck three Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Ngala tow, the headquarters of Gamboru Ngala Local Government Area at the border of Camero...
•Voting The re-run and by-elections conducted yesterday in 26 states of the federation ran into a hitch in some states, making the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to order the suspension of polls in some constituencies due to the abduction of election officials, disruption and other irregularities. According to a release signe...
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