The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, says the military is working tirelessly to free the students abducted in Kuriga, Kaduna State, and other victims across the country. The CDS assured Nigerians that the security forces would expose those behind the evil machinations and bring them...
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By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin- Edo State Government has stepped up surveillance and is currently collaborating with security agencies for the safe release of the kidnapped chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Dr Tony Aziegbemi. The state Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, disclosed...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The National President of Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN), Hon. Khalil Mohammed Bello has appealed to the federal government to use its association in fostering peace, unity and to resolve farmers/herders conflicts through non kinetic approach . Hon. Bello also...
Police in Akwa Ibom State have rescued four kidnap victims in the last one month. One of them is a woman who faked her own kidnap. They also arrested 52 suspects for various crimes. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Waheed Ayilara, told a news conference in...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The General Officer Commanding, (GOC) of 8 Division, Nigeria Army and Commander Joint Task Force Operation Hadarin Daji, Major General Godwin Mutkut, has urged troops of the Division to sustain the tempo in ensuring that bad elements terrorising innocent Nigerians are eliminated. General Mutkut,...
The Northern Governors’ Forum said it has agreed to new options at a meeting with service chiefs to address the recent spate of kidnappings in the region. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Gombe State, Inuwa Yahaya, made this known to newsmen after the close door meeting...
The Defence Headquarters has said the 112 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who were abducted by terrorists in Borno recently, reportedly went beyond the permissible distance from their camp without informing the camp officials. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known while giving update...
Members of the Northern Governors’ Forum have gone into closed door meeting with the National Security Adviser and Service Chiefs in Abuja. The meeting, holding in the Office of the National Security Adviser, opened at about 2pm, and may not be unconnected with the recent mass abduction of...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that most incidents of kidnapping in the nation’s capital were stage-managed by people. Wike stated this during a chat with journalists after a closed-door meeting with the Senate alongside the FCT Commissioner of Police, Benneth Igweh,...
President Bola Tinubu has further directed the immediate release of the abducted children in Kaduna State and Borno. He insisted that the Federal Government would not succumb to the payment of ransom to kidnappers and terrorists in the country. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made...
Gunmen, suspected to be abductors, on Tuesday kidnapped a senior matron serving with the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Ituku-Ozalla in Enugu State. Dr Augustine Duru, Chairman, Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) UNTH Chapter, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By OLA MODUPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has raised alarm over planned attacks on schools and rural farm communities in the state. Governor Adeleke raised the alarm in a statement by his spokesperson, Malam Olawale Rasheed, on Tuesday in Osogbo. He said that intelligence snippets,...
A 22- year old man, Aliyu Muhamadu, who was accused of participating in hostage taking on Tuesday denied ever confessing to being a kidnapper in a Federal High Court Ibadan. Muhamadu, was testifying before Justice Ekerete Akpan at the resumed trial in a case of alleged hostage taking...
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State has condemned the recent kidnapping of over 200 primary school pupils in Kuriga village of Chikun Local Government. PDP State Publicity Secretary, Abraham Catoh, stated this in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna. Catoh quoted the...
The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of 15 Islamic education pupils and a woman in Gidan Bakuso, a village in Gada Local Government Area of the state. ASP Ahmad Rufa’i, the spokesperson of the command, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto that...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has said President Bola Tinubu has ordered the entire security architecture in the country to rescue the abducted Kaduna school children. Shettima said this on Saturday when he paid a sympathy visit to Gov. Uba Sani. The Vice-President, who said that President Tinubu was personally...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Government has debunked media reports alleging that it hired a private negotiator to facilitate the safe return of children abducted from Kuriga community on Thursday as false and mischievous. Recalled that bandits had attacked the community located on the Kaduna Birnin-Gwari...
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, on Friday remanded nine persons for allegedly kidnapping and killing six girls for ritual purpose. The Police charged the defendants, whose addresses were not provided with kidnapping, murder, robbery and conspiracy. The defendants are: Moses Aruwaji, 45, Adebayo Azeez, 32, Mariam Aruwaji,...
The Chief Judge of Taraba, Justice Joel Agya, on Friday sentenced Yusufa Adamu and Adamu Abdullahi to death by hanging for kidnapping Balkisu Kambe and Maryam Musa in Gashaka Local Government Area of the state. Agya, while delivering the judgement in Jalingo, said the prosecution had proven...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has condemned the heinous incidents of abduction involving very vulnerable victims, internally-displaced persons in Borno State, and students in Kaduna State. This is contained in a statement issued by the presidential spokesman, Mr Ajuri Ngelale on Friday in Abuja The...