•Police arrest The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested two sisters, Leadway Innocent and Joy Innocent, for staging a fake abduction to extort N5m from their father. Police also arrested two accomplices in Jikwoyi Phase II, Abuja. According to a statement today by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Ad...
•Gunmen An unspecified number of passengers were today abducted and some of them reportedly shot by criminals operating at Ezinnachi/Okigwe axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway. The incident, according to some passengers, occurred between 9:00 and 10:00 am as the gunmen blocked the highway and operated unchallenged, reports Vanguard. One...
•Troops The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says the troops of Operation UDO KA, have apprehended three suspects in connection with the kidnap of Anambra State Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye, made this known while briefing newsmen on the operations...
The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a graduating student of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Helen Kayode, for allegedly staging her own kidnap to spend time with her boyfriend. The police announced Helen’s arrest yesterday, saying her action reportedly caused panic across Iworoko-Ekiti and Ado-Ekiti, following a message she sent to her ...
•Bandits The Police has confirmed the kidnapping of female students from the Joseph Saawuaan Tarka Federal University Makurdi, formally known as Federal University of Agriculture. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Benue State Command, CSP Sewuese Anene, in a telephone conversation with our correspondent, confirmed the incident, noting tha...
•Gunmen Suspected kidnappers have abducted two Catholic priests from their residence in Numan, Adamawa State. The Police Command, which confirmed the abduction in a statement this morning, said the incident happened in the earlier hours of the day. It said the Commissioner of Police, CP Dankombo Morris, who condemned the kidnapping of Reverend...
The Police in Delta State have arrested Mr. Buhari Bala along with other suspected armed robbers, kidnappers, and cultists at various locations in the state. In a press release today, Friday, February 21, 2025, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Delta State Command, SP Bright Edafe, stated that some of the suspected kidnappers who [&he...
•Delta State Polytechnic An unidentified HND female student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha North council, has been reportedly abducted by a five-man gang along the Polytechnic road. It was learnt that a stray bullet from the gunmen killed a woman in the process of the abduction when her perceived boyfriend was accosted by hoo...
•Bandits Gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped a former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major General Mahrazu Tsiga (retired). Tsiga, was kidnapped alongside several other residents of Tsiga village in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, reports Channels TV. A resident of the area confirmed the ...
•Gunmen A United Kingdom-based, Mr. Ikechukwu Okeke, has been kidnapped by gunmen in Anambra. Okeke was kidnapped at his Amaokpala community in Orumba North Local Government Area of the State, on January 10, 2025, at about 7:30pm, while returning home from the funeral service of his cousin, Mrs. Obiageli Okoli. He was, however, released three ...
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