•Youth Corps members Kidnappers holding 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps members abducted along the Owerri-Onitsha Road in Imo State have reduced their ransom demand from N50m to N5m per victim, bringing the total demand down from N1bn to N100m. The development came as the victims’ parents disclosed that the abducted graduates were ...
•Youth Corps members The appeal is simple, desperate and increasingly familiar on Nigerian social media: “KIDNAPPED AND NEEDS OUR HELP”. Beneath the words is the photograph of a young Nigerian graduate, Abudu Precious Oladipupo, smiling at the camera. He is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, where he studied Linguistics and African La...
•Bandits One of the 16 kidnap victims rescued in Kogi State, Victor Anyichie, has recounted how his abductors allegedly beat him almost to death after he told them his family could only afford N500,000 ransom. Anyichie and the other victims were abducted last Sunday when armed men attacked commuters along the Ojuwo-Ajengo-Memarebo and Ojiwo-It...
•PoS and Naira notes Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command have apprehended one Muhamodu Sanni linked to a suspected kidnapping syndicate around the Obudu/Woru axis of Ilorin East Local Government Area of the state. Sanni was arrested while allegedly attempting to cash out ransom proceeds linked to a recent abduction, reports The PUNCH....
•Yoruba traditional hunters The palace gates of Ife trembled with more than words. When the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, opened his mouth, he didn’t just speak, he summoned. In a nation bleeding from kidnappings, massacres, and forests turned into killing fields, Nigeria’s most revered monarch made a call that shook the corridors of [&he...
•Bandits, Tinubu and Ogunsanya Ransom payment to terrorists under any guise by the federal government is the biggest betrayal of Nigeria’s anti-insurgency war, a veteran of the United States Army with operational experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, Major Yinka Ogunsanya, has said. Major Ogunsanya spoke while featuring as a guest on Sunday nigh...
•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...
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