•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...
•Kidnapped Akwa Ibom NYSC members Distraught parents of seven Akwa Ibom prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members kidnapped in Zamfara State are losing hope on the fate of their children still in kidnappers’ den over four months after they were abducted. Recall that on August 17 2023, an 11-seater Akwa Ibom State Transport Compan...
•Nabeeha buried yesterday Bandits, who kidnapped Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and his six children, have killed one of the abducted persons. The deceased lady identified as Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar was killed on Friday, reports The Nation. She has been laid to rest according to Islamic rites yesterday. Nabeeha was a 400-level student of biological sc...
Suspected kidnappers have reportedly abducted a 70-year-old farmer, Pa Adeife Ifelaja, in Ogun State. Ifelaja, an elder at a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Ijebu Igbo, headquarters of Ijebu North Local Government, was kidnapped on the last day of last month, reports Daily Trust. Sources said the farmer was abducted at [&...
•Nigerian Police The police command in Kaduna State has rescued a kidnapped victim after six months’ in captivity. The state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, said this when he spoke with our correspondent today in Kaduna, reports NAN. ‘”On Monday, at about 1600 hours, our anticrime patrol mission on Madachi-Galadimawa ...
•Luis Diaz Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group today freed the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, 12 days after kidnapping him, according to live TV footage. After being handed over by the rebels to a humanitarian mission, Luis Manuel Diaz arrived by helicopter in the northeastern city of Valledupar, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from his [&...
•Diaz The rebel group holding Luis Diaz’s father hostage has demanded “security guarantees” before his release. The National Liberation Army (ELN) said the ongoing military and police search “will delay the release and increase the risks”, Colombian media reported. Luis Manuel Diaz was kidnapped at gunpoint along with his wife in Barrancas, Co...
•Late Raymond Erukaa The kidnapped octogenarian and pioneer Ukum Local Government Area chairman in 1981 Raymond Erukaa has died in captivity after he was kidnapped from his home at Tse-Erukaa, in Zaki Biam, on the 23rd of September 2023. Confirming the sad passing of the 81-year-old elder statesman, the eldest surviving son of the deceased [&h...
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