By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 16 victims who were kidnapped have been rescued by a team of security agents comprising personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army and other quasi security outfits. The team also killed scores of suspected kidnappers, who have...
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The Police Command in Katsina State, has arrested 10 suspected fraudsters in possession of fake N144,000 notes. The command Spokesperson, ASP Aliyu Abubakar-Sadiq said this in Katsina on Friday. According to him, the suspects were arrested by detectives on Aug. 28, at Bakin Kasuwa quarters in Kankia, following...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Command says its operatives have killed five suspected kidnappers during a shootout in Jama’are town Jama’are Local Government Area of the State. The Commissioner of Police in the State, Auwal Muhammed, disclosed this through the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Ahmed...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Government has placed a reward of N5 million for anyone with information that can lead to the arrest of the kidnappers of Prof. Ekanem Ephraim, a Neurologist with the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), who was abducted from her...
The Abia Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has arrested a notorious kidnap suspect, Kingsley Ogbonna, 35, and rescued his victim. The State Commandant, Mr Paul Igwebuike, disclosed this during an interactive session with newsmen in his office in Umuahia on Tuesday. Igwebuike,...
The Imo Police Command said it arrested 56 suspects for various criminal offences, including armed robbery, kidnapping, child trafficking, cultism, murder and terrorism between January and June. The Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde, said this at the command’s headquarters in Owerri, while briefing newsmen on the recent exploits by...
The police in Ebonyi have reportedly killed three of the suspected killers of a member of staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and rescued his kidnapped wife.police The victim, Mr Emmanuel Igwe, an Assistant Electoral Officer (AEO) of INEC, was on Sunday, June 18, killed by suspected...
Gunmen operating at Imo axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway reportedly kidnapped nine Enugu-bound passengers, killed two and robbed others of their valuables. The victims, who hail from Amangwo Olokoro in Umuahia, were said to be travelling to Enugu on Saturday for a burial, when they were attacked by...
By MARK JANG, Jos – Operatives of the Plateau State Police Command have rescued six out of the seven students of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) that were abducted by gunmen on Monday. The victims were kidnapped from their hostel located off campus on Monday night in Jos while...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested an alleged informant and logistics supplier to a kidnapping and banditry group terrorising Abuja and its environs. The command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said in a statement on Sunday that the suspect, who was arrested...
Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, on Wednesday shot dead two people and also abducted two others at a farm in Awo Village in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun. One of the deceased was an area commander of Ogun security outfit, So-Safe Corps, identified as Saheed Ogunrinde. The...
The Police in Ekiti State have arrested two notorious kidnappers terrorising communities in the state and neighbouring Kogi. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Ogundare Dare made the announcement on Friday in Ado-Ekiti while briefing newsmen on the activities of the command. He said that the two suspects were...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – No fewer than 134 kidnapped victims have been rescued from Odullo Forest in Kogi State by a vigilance group. The rescued victims were abducted in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Nasarawa State. The Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Mr Onogwu...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the former Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Ismaila Konga, on Monday evening around 7pm. Mr Konga, was kidnapped alongside two others on his way from Akwanga town, the...
The husband and wife alledgedly abducted on the Iragbiji-Osogbo Road in the early hours of Saturday in Osun, while returning from a vigil, have escaped from their abductors. According to Brig.-Gen. Bashir Adewinmbi, Osun State Amotekun Commander, the wife was spotted by operatives of the corps, running out of...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has pleaded with the abductors of the past president of the body, Chief Okey Wali, SAN, to release him unconditionally. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Wali, was reportedly abducted in the early hours of Monday, on the East–West Road, of Obio/Akpor...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The operatives if Nasarawa State Police Command have killed three suspected kidnappers and rescued a victim in Sabon Gida, in Lafia East Development Area of Lafia local government area of the state. DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), made this known in...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH Lafia – The Vigilante Group of Nigeria in Nasarawa Eggon, the headquarters of Nasarawa Eggon LGA of Nasarawa State, has apprehended six suspected kidnappers at their hideout in Tudun Waya. NATIONAL ACCORD gathered that during the operation, the vigilante men also rescued seven abducted victims in...
The Police Command in Ekiti on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of alleged masterminds of cult clashes, and 15 others in connection with different crimes across the state. Addressing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the Commissioner of Police, Ogundare Dare, said the arrested suspects included kidnappers, robbers, rapists and notorious cultists, among...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Kidnappers of Prof Onjey Gewado, a former Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, have demanded the sum of seventy million naira (N70,000,000) ransom. This was disclosed to our correspondent by a family source who is monitoring the developments. Recall that Professor Onje Gye-Wado, was kidnapped Thursday...