ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called for urgent rescue of no fewer than 200 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) abducted in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno on Feb. 29. Mr Andrew Mamedu, Country Director AAN, made the call in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He also called for...
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The Nigeria Police Force has arrested 11 suspects over alleged involvement in `one chance” robbery in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja. Adejobi said a POS Machine and one Mazda...
Troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), a special military task force maintaining peace in Plateau and parts of Bauchi and Kaduna States, have arrested 271 suspects for committing various offences within its areas of responsibility. The Deputy Commander of OPSH, presented the suspects and recovered weapons to...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ondo State Command, has arrested a 21 year-old undergraduate of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Anthony Oscar, for allegedly kidnapping a 17-year-old girl. Mr Oluyemi Ibiloye, NSCDC State Commandant, made this known while parading the suspects and two others on...
Troops of the Nigerian military have eliminated two wanted armed bandits’ leaders, Baldo and Baban Yara, together with scores of their foot soldiers. The warlords were behind the coordination of movement and exchange of kidnapped victims within camps in the Zamfara/Katsina axis. A defence intelligence source confirmed to...
Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says the Nigerian Army has the capacity to decimate all armed groups disturbing the peace of the nation. Sule, made this on Sunday during the 2023 West African Social Activities of the Nigerian Army’s IV Special Forces command in the Doma Local...
A public affairs and social analyst, Mr Ambrose Igboke, has said state policing is a critical intervention for security challenges currently bedeviling the country. Igboke said this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja while reacting to President Bola Tinubu and State governors agreement...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Locals in some of the worst insecurity infested areas of Sokoto East Senatorial District have passed vote of confidence on the Nigerian military for their commitment towards ending the menace of banditry, kidnapping for ransom and other crimes against humanity that have bedeviled...
Troops of Sector 1, Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have rescued 12 kidnapped victims at Jootar village in Ukum LGA of Benue State. The Force Commander (FC), OPWS, Maj. -Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia told newsmen on Friday in Makurdi that the victims were rescued on Feb. 21, following credible intelligence....
Armed bandits have attacked the divisional headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Zurmi town, the headquarters of the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The bandits were said to have invaded the town on Sunday evening, killing seven persons including a police officer. An indigene...
Kidnapped victims recently freed from captivity have revealed that kidnappers use poisonous snakes to terrorise them. Some of them, who recounted their ordeals in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), said that there were many snakes in the forests inhabitated by the bandits. They said that the...
The gunmen who killed a traditional ruler and kidnapped his wife and one other person have reduced the N100m ransom placed on the abducted victims to N40 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the gunmen had on Sunday first reached out to the king’s family...
The Police Command in Rivers has denied reports that it released three officers accused of kidnapping and extorting 3,000 dollars from two victims in Rivers. The Spokesperson for the command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, clarified the issue in a statement released in Port Harcourt on Saturday. “The attention of...
No fewer than 55 persons have been kidnapped by bandits while escorting a bride along Damari town in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State. Although security agencies are yet to confirm the incident officially, a resident however, told Channels Television on Friday in a telephone call that the...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has condemned the killing of Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti Local Government Local Government area of the state, Oba Segun Aremu. The governor, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Rafiu Ajakaye in llorin on Friday, described the killing as...
The Police Command in Kwara on Thursday in Ilorin confirmed the killing of a traditional ruler in the state, Oba Peter Aremu, the Onikoro of Koro-Ekiti in the Ekiti Local Government Area. CSP Ejire Adeyemi-Tohun, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the state Police Command, confirmed this in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji has called on the military high command to provide more security presence in various parts of the state to forestall future security breaches in the state. Governor Oyebanji made the call when he paid a courtesy visit to the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has condemned the killing of two traditional rulers in Ekiti state, the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olusola, and the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsola. Tinubu in a statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, condemned the mindless...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has criticized President Bola Tinubu led Federal Government over its failure to address the spate of Kidnapping and banditry in the country. Atiku stated this in a post via his verified X (formerly Twitter) handle...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The Troops of the Nigerian Army under the Joint Task Force in the North West, Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) has rescued 35 kidnapped victims in Katsina state. The Information officer to the operation, Capt. Yahaya Ibrahim stated this in a statement issued in Gusau...