•A kidnap victim One of the kidnapped pupils from Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mustapha Abubakar, who luckily escaped has recounted his ordeal in the hands of his abductors. This was according to a report by BBC Hausa Service published online today, Monday, March 11, 2024. According to Abubakar, the kidnappers treated ...
•Nyesom Wike Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike has placed an N20 million bounty on the heads of two criminals terrorising residents of the territory, dead or alive. Wike made the announcement in Abuja today, while making remarks at the FCT Police Command, where 15 arrested suspected kidnappers and one chance robbers were pa...
•Pastor Clement Adebisi Pastor Clement Adebisi, the husband of one of the teachers of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, kidnapped in Ekiti State a fortnight ago, shares with Saturday PUNCH the family’s trauma while the episode lasted. Congratulations on your wife’s freedom. How did you feel that Monday on learning of the [&...
•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, […]
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