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...
Kidnapping
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...
Abductors of the wife and two daughters of a lecturer with the Federal College of Education, Technical (FCET) Gusau in Zamfara State, Abdurrazak Muazu, have demanded N50 million ransom. A family member who pleaded anonymity said on Tuesday that the bandits called and informed them that they needed the...
Two additional kidnapped students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Kaduna State have regained their freedom. Although the police authorities are yet to comment on the development, the chairman of the Kaduna state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Joseph Hayab said the two students were...
The police have rescued 21 schoolchildren kidnapped on December 31 by bandits at Kucheri Village, along Gusau-Funtua Road in Zamfara State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Mohammed Shehu, confirmed the development during a press conference on Saturday. Their freedom, he stated, followed efforts by police...
Operatives of The Kaduna State Police Command have rescued nine kidnap victims in Sabon Birnin, Birnin village of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The police spokesman, ASP Mohammed Jalige, who confirmed this to newsmen on Saturday, said the operation was conducted by operatives of the command in...
The special task force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) maintaining peace in Plateau and environs, has said the abductors of Sum Pyem, Mr Charles Mato, have demanded N500 million ransom. Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, the Commander of OPSH, said this when officials of Correspondents Chapel of Plateau Council of Nigerian Union...
Three persons have reportedly been killed on Sunday after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded some communities under Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An unspecified number of villagers, mostly women, were said to have been kidnapped during the assault. Some of the villages said to have been...