•Late Reverend Edwin Achi and bandit The abducted priest in charge of Ebenezer Anglican Church, Ungwan Maijero in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Reverend Edwin Achi, has died in captivity. The priest and his wife were kidnapped by bandits from their residence in Nissi Village, near the Kaduna Refinery on October 28, 2025 [&helli...
•Tinubu The Gender Educators Initiative (GEI) has urged the Tinubu-led federal government to move swiftly to secure the safe release of schoolgirls abducted from Government Secondary School, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The organisation described the incident as a tragic reminder of the worsening insecurity that ...
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...
•Gunmen One of the students of Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary, Ivianokpodi, Estako East Local Government Area, Emmanuel Alabi, who was abducted on July 10, 2025, has been killed. Gunmen struck at the minor seminary and abducted three students, Japhet Jesse, Joshua Aleobua, and late Alabi, reports The Nation. Jesse managed to escape while...
•Former militant commander, Asari Dokubo The eight candidates of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) abducted by pirates along the Bille waterways in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers States have been rescued after spending 21 days in captivity. The victims were rescued yesterday evening by a local security out...
•Leah Sharibu and her mother Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu abducted by Boko Haram in 2018, has marked her 22nd birthday in captivity, seven years after being taken from her school in Dapchi, Yobe State. Rebecca released a heartfelt video message on the occasion, expressing the overwhelming pain of their prolonged...
•Leah Sharibu The Leah Sharibu Foundation has described Leah Sharibu’s continued stay in captivity as a sad development. President of the Foundation, Dr. Gloria Puldu, stated this at a briefing, in Jos, yesterday, reports Vanguard. She said Sharibu had spent exactly seven years away from her home since she was captured alongside 100 other scho...
•Wild dog eating Bandits terrorising North West residents have fed newborn twins to dogs, according to Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji, the lawmaker representing Kaura Namoda and Birnin Magaji federal constituency of Zamfara State. In a chat with newsmen today, Jaji said the victim was abducted from a community in Zamfara while pregnant. He said while [&...
•Tinubu Indigenes of Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna State and neighboring communities in Niger State have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene and rescue two District Heads from the communities who were abducted by terrorists and have been in captivity for over 4 months. In a letter to the President by the Birnin-Gwari-Niger Inter-boun...
•Gunmen Eight days after 20 medical students from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Jos were kidnapped in the Otukpo area of Benue State, their whereabouts remain unknown. The students were abducted last Thursday evening while travelling along the Otukpo-Enugu highway en route to the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental St...
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