No fewer than five students of the College of Health Science and Technology, Tsafe, Zamfara State have been kidnapped by armed bandits. It was learnt that the incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday. He said the bandits could not gain entrance to the school due to the...
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Gunmen have abducted the wife and daughter of the Commissioner of Environment in Plateau State, Idi Bamaiyi. Family sources said the victims were abducted on Saturday morning when the gunmen invaded the residence of the commissioner. They, however, confirmed that the incident had been reported to the security agencies...
By IBRAHIM OBANSA, Lokoja – Enemona Josh Humanitarian Foundation, has clarified that its founder, Ambassador Gabriel Onoja, who was earlier believed to have been kidnapped by gunmen is currently safe in the hands of the police who whisked him away from his apartment on Thursday night. Recalled that news...
Angry youths at Chukuku Community, on Thursday, barricaded the Kuje-Gwagwalada road during a protest over incessant kidnappings by bandits in the community. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the angry youths barricaded the road with inscriptions on placards “Government should provide security to Chukuku Community”. The youths set...
Heavily armed bandits have reportedly kidnapped at least 75 people in Kekun Waje district of Bungudu LGA of Zamfara State. In a raid on the community over a month ago, more than 60 people were abducted in a similar attack. Those abducted in that incident are still in captivity,...
At least 11 persons, mostly elderly women have been kidnapped by gunmen at Shinfida Village in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. They were abducted on their way to join other residents who earlier ran to a refugee camp for safety after their village came under attack by...
The 22-year-old lady, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, who got missing in transit on Feb. 26 while on a BRT bus in Lagos has been found dead. Police spokesman in Lagos State, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday that Oluwabamise’s corpse was found on Carter Bridge...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – In a bid to bring to an end the worrisome spate of insecurity that has bedeviled Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi States in north West, the newly posted Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police in Charge of Zone 10, AIG Bello Dalijan said synergy with...
An Ikeja High Court on Friday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, to life imprisonment for the kidnap of Mr Donatius Dunu, the Chief Executive Officer of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Ltd. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Hakeem Oshodi also sentenced Evans’s two co-defendants; Uche Amadi...
Suspected bandits have abducted the regional accountant of Nigerian Customs Service in charge of Kano & Jigawa State, Mr Mahassan Lawal. Mr Lawal was kidnapped late on Friday night in his country home of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The officer was whisked away by gunmen who...
The Edo Police Command says the driver to the state Chairman of the Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdul-Hamid Egele, has died. The command’s Spokesman, SP Kontongs Bello, confirmed the death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Tuesday night. NAN reports that the deceased,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna- The Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, has confirmed the abduction of one of its priests, Rev. Fr. Joseph Shekari of St Monica’s Catholic Church, Ikulu Parish in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Chancellor of the Diocese, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Okolo, who confirmed the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Damaturu – Unknown gunmen on Tuesday have abducted an Assistant Headmaster of Central Primary School, Buni Yadi, identified as Babagana Kachalla and four others in Madiya Village, Gujba Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the gunmen invaded the village on Tuesday at...
There was pandemonium in Mareri Community, an outskirt of Gusau as armed bandits again, invaded the community and attempted to kidnap the Managing Director of Zamfara State Transport Authority (Mass Transit) Alhaji Aminu Adamu Papa and his family members. A neighbor who pleaded anonymity told Channels Television that the...
The Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of a private school, Noble Kids Academy, in Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state, where abductors of a pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, were said to have killed and buried her remains. Five-year-old Hanifa was abducted late last year and one...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – No fewer than 16 kidnapped victims have been rescued by operatives from The Kaduna State Police Command in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, Mohammed Jalige, who revealed this in a statement issued on Monday, said the bandits tried...
The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says Nigeria will win the ongoing war against banditry, kidnapping, killing and other security challenges facing the country. Tinubu gave this assurance on Sunday when he paid a condolence visit to Gov. Aminu Masari of katsina State over...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari as Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s armed forces has set the ball rolling for a major military operation in Niger State which has faced continued attacks on its communities by bandits and remnants of Boko Haram terrorists fleeing theaters of war in...
A former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Lawman Duruji has regained his freedom from kidnappers. Duruji was reportedly abducted on Saturday in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the kidnappers had demanded N15million as ransom for his release. But there was...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Special Forces (SF) on Wednesday rescued 26 abducted victims while on a fighting patrol along Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Road. The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, made this known in a statement on Thursday in...