•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...
•Late Emir, Isa Muhammad Bawa The son of Sokoto District Head who died in captivity on Tuesday has been released after the payment of ransom. His elder brother, Surajo Isa, confirmed this to our correspondent last night, reports Daily Trust. He said the bandits collected N60 million and five motorcycles given to secure their release. […...
•Pregnant Ihyi Abdul and her two children Ihyi Abdul, the most recently released victim of the April 2014 abduction in Chibok, Borno State, says she was married to eight men while in Boko Haram captivity. It was earlier reported how the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, handed over the rescued Chibok girl and 332 […]
•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...
•Youth Corps members The family of Bassey Daniel, one of the prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members from Akwa Ibom State, kidnapped in Zamfara State has called on relevant stakeholders, including the state government to help rescue him. Daniel, an indigene of Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State is the only remaining [...
•Gunmen A judge of the Upper Customary Court in Kaduna State Janet Gimba who was kidnapped by bandits along with her four children has been released. But three of her children are still in the custody of the abductors, reports Channels TV. Her husband Musa Gimba confirmed the judge’s release but said that the woman […]
•Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity Another Chibok girl, Lydia Simon, has been rescued by troops of Sector One North-East Joint Taskforce Operation Hadin Kai after escaping from Boko Haram captivity. The Theatre Commander of the Joint Taskforce, Major General Waidi Shuabu, while addressing journalists at the headquarters of the theatre said ...
•Terrorists Three Cameroonian aid workers with a French NGO who were kidnapped in the country’s jihadist-hit north were freed in Nigeria yesterday after 100 days in captivity, their organisation told our correspondent. The two men and a woman “were freed this evening near Maiduguri” in northeastern Nigeria, around 100 kilometres (62 miles) fro...
•Aisha Yesufu •Chibok girls in captivity At the forefront of the move to secure the release of the abducted girls, was the BringBackOurGirls group. The group mounted a campaign to put pressure on relevant authorities to ensure release of the girls. In this interview, with co- founder of the BringBackOurGirls movement, Aisha Yesufu, our corresp...
•Abuja sisters Security agencies were busy with a slew of rescue operations over the weekend. Among those freed were five of the six sisters of the Al-Kadriyar family who were kidnapped by bandits in the Bwari area of Abuja, reports The Nation. They regained freedom on Saturday after the payment of ransom, according to one […]
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