•General Christopher Musa (rtd) The federal government has restated its position that it does not pay ransom for abducted victims. This was as it insisted that security forces rely on military pressure and intelligence operations to secure their release. The Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, made this clarification in an interview with BB...
•Tukur Mamu The Federal High Court in Abuja heard how alleged terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, was purportedly offered N50 million by the leader of a terrorist group as a personal reward from ransom funds. A Department of State Services (DSS) official, testifying as the sixth prosecution witness in Mamu’s terrorism trial, told the court tha...
•House Of Representatives The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, is proposing penalties, in the next six months, for government officials who negotiate ransom payments. Kalu spoke today at the lower chamber’s special session on national security, saying a legislative move to make that happen will help in addressing ...
A 27-year old woman, Chioma Success Ezebie, has been arrested by operatives of the Edo Police Command for kidnapping herself and collecting N5 million ransom from her husband. Chioma had abducted herself and three-year-old son on October 27, 2025 and made one Martins Chidozie, aged 23, to call her husband that they have been kidnapped, [&helli...
•Bandits Residents of Banga village in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State have been thrown into mourning following the brutal killing of 38 kidnapped villagers by bandits, despite the payment of over ₦50 million as ransom. The Chairman of Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area, Mannir Haidara Kaura, while confirming the incident e...
•Imam Muhammad Murtadha Obhakhobo The Chief Imam of Uromi Central Mosque in Edo State, Imam Muhammad Murtadha Obhakhobo, has denied the claim that he was rescued by the police, disclosing that he paid N6.5 million ransom before regaining freedom. It was earlier reported how the cleric was kidnapped at Uromi on July 9, and a […]
•Gunmen Abductors of the three members of the Deeper Life Bible Church in Akure North Council Area of Ondo State, have reportedly demanded a N15 million ransom for their release. Recall that the church members were abducted Monday evening while coming from the Bible Study at Kasemola area, in Ogbese community. A family source told […]
•Gunmen In a dramatic turn of events, abductors of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nelson Adepoyigi, have seized and detained the ransom bearers who brought money to secure the freedom of the abducted chairman. Adepoyigi was abducted from his home on Monday evening, along [&hellip...
•Gunmen The abductors of the chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State, Nelson Adepoyigi, have reportedly demanded a N100 million ransom for his release. Family source said the victim, who is a ward chairman in Ose Local Government Area of the state, was kidnapped while parking his car in his house about […]
•Gunmen Kidnappers have demanded a ransom of N100 million for the release of Pastor Samson Ndah Ali, a 30-year-old cleric with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Mararaba Aboro, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The pastor was abducted from his residence in the early hours of Monday by gunmen suspected to be […]
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