Farmers in Niger have appealed to the State and Federal Governments to protect them from bandits who have imposed levies on them before harvesting their crops. The farmers said in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that government intervention was necessary as insecurity has virtually...
Kidnapping
Gunmen have abducted the Director of Servicom at the University of Calabar , Prof. Patrick Egaga on Sunday at the University staff quarters. Egaga, who is a professor at the department of Special Education in the institution was said to have been abducted at his resident. The Police...
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani has welcomed the release of the last student of Bethel Baptist High School who was among students of the school abducted in 2021. The governor pledged continuous support for security agencies to make all schools in the state safe . He gave the...
Police authority in Benue State has said a medical doctor has been arrested in Rivers over the disappearance of three children from Benue. The medical doctor, whose name was not given, was arrested by the police in Rivers following an alert on the missing children. The police spokesperson,...
Troops of the Operation Hadarin Daji of the Nigerian Army, in collaboration with the operative of the Zamfara Police Command have rescued the four kidnapped students of the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS).troop Jo This is contained in a statement issued by the Information Officer, Operation Hadarin Daji, Capt....
Suspected bandits have killed one, Malam Usman Sarki, the Village Head of Zazzaga in Munya Local Government Area of Niger, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A community leader, who pleaded anonymity told newsmen in Munya that the suspected bandits launched the attack on Zazzaga and adjoining...
Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times. A native of Ilesa in Osun State, Fayehun’s ordeal started on March 2, 2021, when he, alongside others in his vehicle, fell into the hands of some Fulani kidnappers along Osogbo-Ibokun-Ilesa Road in the state. While some of the...
Bandits have killed four persons and injured four others at Uguwan Dankali in Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The spokesman in Kaduna State, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirm the attack on Sunday in Kaduna. ASP Hassan stated that upon receiving a distress call, a joint response team...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Friday, convicted and sentenced two of the four defendants alleged to have kidnapped Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, to a 20-year-jail term each. Justice Binta Nyako, in a judgment, held that the prosecution had been able to establish the counts preferred against Kelvin...
Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of five female students of the Federal University Dutsinma, (FUDMA) in Katsina by gunmen. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Abubakar Aliyu said that the terrorists’ invaded “resident of the students” behind Mariamoh Ajiri Memorial School, Dutsinma. Aliyu said...
Leah Sharibu, Nigerian schoolgirl, who has now spent five years in captivity with terrorists, has reportedly married another ISWAP commander after abandoning the first ‘husband’ she was forcefully married to. Local security sources made this disclosure in a report by Daily Trust. Recall that Leah was one of the...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL) Prof. Cyril Ndifon has raised alarm over threat to his life. The embattled former Dean disclosed this to some newsmen in Calabar shortly after the Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic...
The Senate has called for the immediate rescue of abducted female students of Federal University in Gusau, Zamfara by yet to be identified bandits. NAN reports that the police said on Friday, at about 0250hrs, suspected bandits, riding on about 50 motorcycles, armed with sophisticated weapons invaded...
The troops of 103 Battalion (Rear) of 82 Division, Nigerian Army, presently on Operation UDO KA II have rescued Dr Maxwell Ayim from suspected kidnappers between Four Corner and Amokwe Junction in Udi LGA of Enugu State. This is contained in a statement issued in Enugu on Saturday...
Military troops have rescued no fewer than 6 of the 24 students of the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State kidnapped in the early hours of Friday by armed bandits.m A top military source close to the Commander of 1 Brigade Nigerian Army, Gusau, confirmed this to Channels TV,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it is working with security agencies to secure the safe release of 8 prospective corps members, who were abducted by bandits in Zamfara on their way to the orientation camp in Sokoto. The NYSC Director-General,...
No fewer than 21 suspected bandits have been reportedly neutralised by security agencies in collaboration with vigilante and locals in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, an official has said. The Council Chairman, Alhaji Hussani Bena, confirmed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of...
The Zamfara Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Wednesday confirmed the murder of Alhaji Hamisu Danjibga, the state Correspondent of the Voice of Nigeria (VON). A statement issued in Gusau by the state NUJ Secretary, Ibrahim Ahmad, said that the body of the deceased was dumped...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Police Command has arrested four persons for alleged involvements in banditry and kidnapping activities in the state. The command’s spokesman, SP Sewuese Anene, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Makurdi. He said the suspects identified as Ordoonku...
In a harrowing turn of events, the village of Giyawa in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State was plunged into chaos leading to the death of four persons sequel to bandits’ attack.. ASP Ahmed Rufai, the State Police Command’s spokesman, confirmed the terrifying situation to newsmen on...