An undergraduate of the Ogun State-owned University of Education, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, Abdul-Azeez Ibrahim, has been arrested by the State police command for alleged kidnapping, armed robbery, and cultism. Abdul-Azeez, arrested on Saturday in Ijebu Ode, is said to be the hit man and armourer for...
•Gunmen Despite the increasing wave of abductions across the country, security experts and families of victims have said that most kidnapping incidents in the Federal Capital Territory and other parts of the country are not reported to the authorities. Victims of abductions and their families in Abuja and other parts of the country, who spoke ...
•Gunmen Security experts have accused commercial banks of encouraging the kidnapping epidemic in the country, as some ransoms are paid into bank accounts. The experts and analysts, who have backgrounds in military, intelligence, and policing, also stressed that abductions had become an industry enabled by the financial institutions that receiv...
•Police Police operatives in Akwa Ibom State have arrested a 10-man suspected kidnapping gang in a forest raid along the Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area. Acting on a tip from local intelligence, the police operatives were said to have raided a forest in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, close to Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, […]
•Bandits Outrage over the rising insecurity in the country grew yesterday as stakeholders demanded tough actions by the federal government against kidnappers. Those who advised the federal government on the kidnapping epidemic included the Supreme Council for Sharia, South-South governors, residents of affected communities, and the National As...
•Gunmen The Middle Belt Youth Forum said it has suspended its planned peace walk to demand an end to the incessant kidnapping and killings that have ravaged the region and some parts of the country. The Executive Director of a co-organising agency with the youth group, Africa’s Morning Centre, Chima Christian, disclosed this in a […]...
•Protest Members of the Middle-Belt Youth Forum will today in Abuja protest the rising cases of kidnapping in the region and the insecurity that has ravaged parts of the country. This is coming against the backdrop of the arrest of 10 suspected bandits by the military, reports The PUNCH. The President of the forum, Brent […]
•Wike dancing away Amid the rising cases of kidnapping and robbery in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom WIke, has been busy with Rivers State politics, reports The PUNCH. A few years ago, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, was perceived as the safest city anyone could wish to live in. […]
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