For many Nigerians, travelling for wedding ceremonies, funerals, village meetings, and other social events, activities that were once routine, has become difficult choices clouded by fear. As kidnapping and other forms of insecurity continue to spread across different parts of the country, more people are thinking twice before embarking on jou...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen The Edo State Commissioner for Public Safety and Security, Festus Ebea, has alleged that some people are bringing criminal elements from outside the state for kidnapping and other crimes. The commissioner disclosed this yesterday in Benin during the monthly briefing organised by the state’s Ministry for Information and S...
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a woman accused of abducting two babies in separate incidents in Ughelli, Delta State. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed the arrest in a video shared on social media, stating that the suspect, identified as Joy, was apprehended after allegedly taking th...
•The dismissed officers The Police Command in Rivers has dismissed five inspectors attached to the Department of Operations over alleged involvement in armed robbery, kidnapping, extortion and conspiracy. The Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police Anthony Placid, disclosed this in a statement released in Port Harcourt to...
•American flag The United States has raised serious concerns over Nigeria’s ability to protect Christian communities following the abduction of 177 worshippers in Kaduna State, as bandits were yesterday sighted moving freely through forest corridors with their captives, days after storming churches without resistance. On Sunday, gunmen attacke...
•Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State Acting Chairman of Esan West local government area, Albert Blessing Ebhodaghe, has announced restriction on the movement and operation of commercial and private motorcycles (popularly known as Okada) and tricycles (Keke). Ebhodaghe said the move was to strengthen public safety as well as maintaining law ...
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has expressed concern over the surge in kidnapping incidents in Ondo, Kwara, Ogun, Osun, Niger and Plateau States, just as it condemns the reported attack on women who were at the gate of the Kwara State Government House on a Save Our Soul (SOS) mission. A press statement yesterday by [&h...
The police have arrested six members of the Omone family and one other person for allegations of kidnapping in the Ubeji community, as well as a woman found with 178 live cartridges in Tuomo, all located in Delta State. In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, today, it was noted […]
•Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Sani-Omolari Aliyu Bauchi State Police Command has arrested one Esther Gambo for the alleged theft of a child and murder. According to a press release issued by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, 19-year-old Esther from Lemoro Village in Toro Local Government Area, Bauchi State, re...
•Police The Anambra State Police Command has activated rescue operations to apprehend the armed hoodlums involved in the abduction of a yet-to-be-identified resident in Awka, the state capital. The incident, it was gathered, occurred in the early hours of yesterday, when the victim was abducted near his residence by three armed men operating i...
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