•Troops It was a huge relief for the families of some abducted Delta residents yesterday, as the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe rescued nine kidnap victims abducted by armed gunmen on March 29 along Ugheli-Patani axis of the East-West road. Rear Admiral John Okeke, Commander of the joint military […]
•Bandits At least thirty children are believed to have been kidnapped by suspected bandits at Kasai village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Batsari is one of several Security Frontline Local Government Areas in Katsina State where activities of bandits, and other criminal elements have been on the increase almost on a daily ...
•The suspects The Lagos State Police Command apprehended two undergraduate companions who orchestrated a fake kidnapping scheme to extort money from their parents. The suspects, 21-year-old Balogun Ayodele, a second-year student at Lagos State University of Education, Ijanikin, and Okuomo Dennis, also 21 years old and a student at the National...
Police in Akwa Ibom have arrested a woman who allegedly faked her own kidnapping. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Waheed Ayilara, disclosed this in Uyo yesterday while briefing journalists. He said police operatives also arrested 52 suspects for various criminal activities ranging from murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, child traffick...
•The suspected kidnapper with the rescued pupils The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a suspected child kidnapper in the Ijegun area of Lagos. An unidentified 40-year-old woman was arrested on Monday following a distress call by the headmaster of the school that some unknown persons invaded the school and abducted three students on the ...
•Tinubu Amnesty International (AI) has called on the federal government to secure the safe release of over 687 people who were abducted by gunmen in Borno and Kaduna states. In Borno, suspected Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped over 400 persons including women and children from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Gamboru Ngala, Babba...
•Phyna Big Brother Naija Level Up winner, Josephine Ijeoma Otabor, popularly known as Phyna, has recounted how she escaped a kidnapper’s attack in Delta State. Phyna took to her X account to explain her ordeal while also grateful for not being a victim. Narrating her experience, she said the kidnappers hijacked four cars in front […]...
•Gunmen Travellers in two buses have been abducted in Inele-Eteke Ogugu new road in Kogi East Senatorial district of Kogi State. The passengers were believed to be on their way from Umahia, in Abia State to Abuja, before they were waylaid in Kogi State, reports Daily Independent. Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred over [&hel...
•Bandits Gunmen believed to be bandits, today, abducted a director in Federal Housing Authority, Federal Capital Territory, identified as Aondo Ver, from his home, during an attack about 200 metres close to a military base in Pambara in the Bwari Area Council of Abuja. •Aondo Ver The bandits who struck around 12.30am today, shot indiscriminate...
•Bandits As the push to rescue the Ekiti State pupils and their teachers continues, gunmen suspected to be bandits kidnapped two teenage sisters from the Guita community in Chikakore, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The development is coming eight days after members of the Chikakore village demonstrated outsi...
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