•Governor Oyebanji pays visit to rescued pupils at hospital Despite warnings by the federal government against crowd-funding for ransoms, the practice has continued to gain ground with the abductees and their families raising funds from relatives, friends, and social media to secure the release of kidnapped victims. Families of abductees told ...
•Suspected kidnappers arrested by Amotekun in Ondo State Kidnappers of five pupils and four staff of the Apostolic Faith Church Primary and Secondary School in Emure, headquarter of Emure Council of Ekiti State have reportedly reduced their demand from N100m to N15million. The school bus conveying the pupils and their teachers, including the d...
•Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed two traditional rulers travelling through a community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. It was gathered that the two traditional rulers, the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsakin and the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olushola, were ambushed and kille...
Operatives of Imo State Police Command today raided a suspected hideout of kidnappers, situated at Okohia Forest in Owerri West council area of the state. The police during the raid arrested seven suspected members of the kidnappers gang as well as recovered four decomposing corpses, suspected to be that of their victims, reports The Guardian....
•Police Daredevil kidnappers have continued to unleash terror on citizens in different parts of the country in defiance of security arrangements put in place to tackle the issue of abduction for ransom, which has lately assumed the level of commercial transactions. For instance, three riot police inspectors were kidnapped on Friday evening in ...
•Wike The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike has expressed displeasure over the rate of insecurity in the nation’s capital. Wike said under his watch no bail would be granted to kidnappers henceforth. He mandated the chairmen of the six Area Councils of the FCT to hold mandatory monthly security meetings to improve the [&hel...
•Bandits A ransom of N30 million has been requested for the release of Barrister Cyril Adikwu’s wife and his two in-laws, who were abducted from the Army estate in Kurudu. Recall that kidnappers invaded the estate on Thursday night at about 10 pm and took away his wife and two in-laws, reports The Nation. Adikwu, […]
•Rivers State High Court A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced three men on charges of kidnapping. Although four suspects were arraigned in court for the kidnap of late Chief Abbot Ogbobula in June 2017, only three were convicted while the fourth suspect was discharged and acquitted, reports Channels ...
•Gunmen Despite the presence of 17 arms-bearing security agencies domiciled in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), kidnappers have, in the last one year, unleashed mayhem on hapless residents. According to credible data made available to this paper, over 300 FCT residents were kidnapped between January and December, 2023. Out of ...
•Late Folorunsho Ariyo. Kidnappers have reportedly killed three of eleven residents of the Sagwari Estate Layout in the Dutsen-Alhaji area of the Federal Capital Territory, including a 13-year-old secondary school student identified as Folorunsho Ariyo. Kidnappers had invaded the Sagwari community on Sunday, January 7, at about 7:30 pm, and ki...