Police authorities in Kaduna State have debunked reports of the abduction of scores of persons by suspected bandits along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. Debunking the story in a statement yesterday, the spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, Mansir Hassan, admitted that there was a heavy gun duel between security operatives and bandits who a...
•Safiyanu Isa Andaha The chairman of Akwanga local government area of Nasarawa State, Safiyanu Isa Andaha has been kidnapped by gunmen. Our correspondent gathered that the frontline council chairman was kidnapped alongside his political godfather Adamu Umar Custom at Bingo village in Akwanga on the evening of yesterday, Monday January 1, repor...
•PPRO Omolola Odutola A suspected kidnapper and child trafficker, Tayo Adeleke, had confessed to the Ogun State Police Command how he and other members of his gang had been kidnapping children to sell in neighbouring Benin Republic. Adeleke is currently in the police net, where he is being interrogated over an attempt he made with […]
•Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a High Court judge, Justice Joy Unwana, and her driver in the Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that her police orderly was killed during the incident which occurred yesterday along the Uyo-Okobo road which leads to Oron town, reports The Nation. […]
•Gunmen Gunmen believed to be bandits have stormed Gandu community and kidnapped some students at the Federal University of Lafia. A resident, who lives within the university community but pleaded for anonymity, informed our correspondent that the gunmen came at first in their numbers at about 7:30pm yesterday and started shooting into the air...
•CP Olatunji Disu The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of four operatives involved in the alleged adoption of hotel staff in Port Harcourt and consequently demanded a ransom to release him. The hotel staff simply identified as Darlington was reportedly arrested on his way to work at about 8 pm last Friday […]
•Gunmen Gunmen abducted two landlords in the Asokoro extension area of the Federal Capital Territory last night, demanding a ransom of N20 million for their release. According to reports, the armed assailants used one of the landlords as a tool to gain access to the victims. Witnesses recounted that the gunmen held one of the […]
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