•Terrorists Fresh concerns over Nigeria’s worsening security crisis have emerged following coordinated ransom demands totalling N6bn by terrorists holding hundreds of abducted victims in Borno and Kaduna states. In Borno State, Boko Haram insurgents are demanding N5bn for the release of 416 women and children abducted from Ngoshe community in ...
•Alleged terrorism negotiator, Tukur Mamu An investigator with the Department of State Services (DSS) has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that complaints made by victims against alleged terrorism negotiator, Tukur Mamu, corroborated the findings by the agency. The sixth prosecution witness in the ongoing terrorism trial of Mamu said sever...
Following the recent arraignment by the Department of State Security (DSS) of Abdulmalik Abdulazeez Obadaki, the suspected mastermind of the 2012 gun attack on a Deeper Life Bible Church, Otite, near Okene, in Kogi State, which killed over 19 worshippers, families of victims and survivors have thanked the secret police for re-arresting and spe...
•EFCC national headquarters Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has handed over N96.5 million to victims of ponzi schemes in Enugu State. Its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement yesterday in Abuja. Oyewale said the step was in line with the anti-graft agency’s commitment to combating economic and financia...
In Niger State, a journalist and Media Aide to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), State Chairman, Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna Dan Atori, have been threatened by some ‘faceless’ individuals over reports on last Friday’s Papiri schools attack by suspected terrorists who abducted over 300 pupils and members of staff. Threats to the CAN ch...
•Social media A cybersecurity expert, Loveth Odozor, has raised the alarm that kidnappers now use social media to identify and track victims. This is even as she called for the adoption of digital safety measures to help combat the growing issues of kidnapping and insecurity in Imo State, reports The Guardian. Odozor, who hails from […]...
A victim of armed robbery, Friday Omotese, has narrated how he was trailed by an attacker after withdrawing money from a bank, shot in his buttocks and the side of his stomach and left in a pool of blood while the armed robber went away with over N2 million he had gone to withdraw for […]
•Tinubu consoles a survivor during visit to hospital in Makurdi The Executive Secretary of the Benue State Emergency Management Agency, James Iorpuu, on Tuesday disclosed that 107 victims of the June 13 Yelwata attack in Guma Local Government Area of the state are still hospitalised and receiving treatment for injuries sustained during the att...
•Lagos Police spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the rescue of 11 victims and arrest of three individuals involved in operating a baby factory in the Ijegun area of the state. Speaking to newsmen, yesterday, at the state police command, the command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, noted that the illegal...
•Victim Blessing Sunday, a Junior Secondary School 3 (JSS3) student, recounted the harrowing night she and her father were accused of witchcraft in their Ipinu-Oju central community in Oju Local Government Area of Benue State. At about 2am, a man came to our house and called my father, saying some elders wanted to see him […]
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