74-year-old Emir of Gobir in Gawata town of Sokoto state, Alhaji Isah Muhammad Bawa was abducted by bandits on Sabon Birni road last month alongside his biological son on his way to his native town of Sabon Birni, near the border with Niger, after attending a meeting in Sokoto. His abductors demanded N1 billion ransom […]
•Bandits Nigerians paid N1.048 billion as ransom to kidnappers between July 2023 and June 2024, a report has shown. The report, released yesterday by the SBM Intelligence, showed that 7,568 people were kidnapped across the country within the period, reports Daily Trust. SBM Intelligence is an Africa-focused market/security intel gathering cons...
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested three suspected kidnappers, who collected N3 million ransom from a victim’s family. The Command’s Spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest today, reports NAN. Hundeyin said that the Isashi Police Division received a call from a concerned citizen yesterday at about 12:00 noo...
Tales of woes have continued to persist in the South-East geo-political region due to the unending spate of kidnappings in the zone. No week passes by without tales of people being kidnapped in different parts of the five states that make up the zone, reports Vanguard. Stories abound of innocent travellers who were caught in […]
Suspected kidnappers are demanding a ransom for the release of Christiana Idowu, a 300-level student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, who was abducted on August 19 along the Ikorodu-Yaba Road. Christiana was on her way from her home in Itaoluwo, Ikorodu, to the University of Lagos, Yaba, where she was undergoing industrial t...
As if in a movie, the conversation between the leader of recently killed billionaire kidnappers in Lagos, said to be a Nollywood actor/producer, Prince Henry Ode and another member of the notorious gang planted at the market on the day of their operation, has been exposed. Police sources said they had stationed one of their […]
•NYSC members Kidnappers who abducted five youth corps members travelling along Ifon/ Owo road on Friday evening have demanded a sum of N15m ransom, threatening to kill the victims if the families failed to pay the ransom. The kidnappers were said to have contacted the families of the victims over the weekend, demanding N30m per […]
•Armed Fulani herdsmen A victim of kidnapping, 32-year-old Bisola Olisa from the Imeri community in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, has recounted her ordeal at the hands of suspected kidnappers who abducted her and four others. Olisa told our correspondent that she was traveling from Ikare Akoko to Ado Ekiti when the armed […]...
•Gunmen Two victims were rescued yesterday after gun-wielding kidnappers invaded the Guto village in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The two female victims – both children — were kidnapped around 1pm and were taken to a location in neighbouring Niger State. FCT police spokesperson Josephine Adeh said the command’s...
Operatives of the Ogun Police Command, yesterday, engaged suspected kidnappers terrorising travellers on Sagamu Ijebu-Ode-Benin expressway in a gun battle, killing two of them. The police also rescued three Indians and recovered a total sum of N7.9m and 1500 Indian Rupees, suspected to have been part of the ransom collected from victims, repor...
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