What occurred at Uromi, headquarters of Esan North East Local Government Area in Edo State on Thursday, March 27, could have befallen any other community in the heartbeat of the nation, given the prevailing circumstances, tension, and anger over the hair-raising operations of suspected herders in combination with abductors. More than 24 other ...
•General Tsiga (retrd) Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga (retired), who was kidnapped alongside nine other residents on February 5 from Tsiga town in Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State, remains in captivity 40 days after his abduction. Tsiga is a former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), reports Daily Trust....
•Gunmen The abductors of female students from Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University Makurdi (JoSTUM) have demanded a ₦40 million ransom for their release. The students were kidnapped on Tuesday at about 8:30pm while heading to a lecture hall to study, reports Vanguard. Following the abduction, fellow students staged protests, demanding the immediate...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed two police officers during a foiled kidnapping operation around Little Rayfield community in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Alabo Alfred, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Jos, stating that four suspects had been arrested in co...
•Gunmen Kidnappers have reportedly shot dead two people in their captivity over a delay in the payment of ransom in Gwargwada, Kuje Area Council of the FCT. Our reporter learnt that the two victims, Mohammed Danladi and Nasiru Yusuf, who are natives of Gwargwada village, were abducted alongside a herder and a woman at Gwombe […]
•Gunmen Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed a health worker identified as Akinola Oyabiyi. Oyabiyi, aged 46, was shot dead inside his car near the Akure Airport at Eleyowo in Akure North Local Government Area, reports The Nation. It was around the Akure Airport area that two farmers were abducted last week. Sources said […]
•Former NYSC boss, General Maharazu Tsiga (retrd) The gunmen who abducted a former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), General Maharazu Tsiga (retrd), have demanded a N250 million ransom for his release. A source close to the family who preferred anonymity, told our correspondent that the family was contacted and the a...
•The two suspects The police have arrested two additional suspects in connection with the abduction of Mrs. A. Odumosu, wife of retired Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Hakeem Odumosu. Mrs. Odumosu was kidnapped by four masked men at her residence in Arepo, Lagos, at around 9:55 p.m. on January 16, reports The Nation. The police had […...
•Ex-Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Hakeem Odumosu Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have rescued Folashade Odumosu, the wife of former Assistant Inspector General of Police and former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu. The victim regained her freedom yesterday. It was gathered that the Ogun State Commissioner of Police,...
•Gunmen A female banker, identified simply as Ifeoma, has reportedly been killed by suspected kidnappers in Anambra State, despite her family paying a ransom for her release. The victim was reportedly abducted in Onitsha and held captive for several days before her captors contacted her family to demand a ransom, reports The PUNCH. A family [&...
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