Tag: Kidnapping in Nigeria

The Federal Government says Kaduna-based Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi has been invited by security agencies for questioning over some comments he made on ...

The Nigerian Police Force Kwara State Command has confirmed the killing of two herders by thunder strike in the Oro-Ago, Ifelodun Local Government ...

Thunderstrike has reportedly killed three suspected kidnappers in the agrarian Oro Ago community in the Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state. It ...

Gunmen have kidnapped the All Progressive Congress (APC) chairman Ekiti State, Paul Omotosho. He was reportedly kidnapped along the Agbado-Imesi-Ekiti road in Gbonyin ...

A kidnap victim identified as Tama Jonathan has been killed during a gun duel between operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command ...

The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the rescue of a journalist, Olusegun Oduneye, three days after he was kidnapped by gunmen at ...

Nigerian Police Force, Kwara State Command has killed three members of a notorious kidnap gang and arrested nine others in a gun battle ...

The four abducted tipper drivers in Kwara state have regained their freedom. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kwara command, Okasanmi Ajayi, confirmed their ...

Kwara state Police Command has confirmed the kidnapping of four Tipper Lorry drivers from a farm on the outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara state ...

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Pankshin Division, Pankshin Local Government Area of Plateau State, has been kidnapped by gunmen. A policeman ...

A retired Colonel, Rabiu Garba Yandoto, who was abducted by bandits along Gusau-Tsafe road and released last Tuesday after payment of N10 million ...

The Kwara State Police Command on Tuesday says it has rescued Alhaji Tunde Buhari, Chairman of Oluwalose Community of Oko-Olowo area from kidnappers ...

The President of Igueben Area Customary Court, Mrs Precious Aigbonoga, was on Monday abducted by gunmen, around Ugoneki axis, on her way to ...

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested one Issa Naigheti for allegedly kidnapping his father and collecting N2.5 million ransom. Police Public Relatiosn ...

Nigerian Police Force, Kwara State Command on Wednesday paraded five members of two different gangs of kidnappers terrorizing, Kwara, Kogi and Ekiti States. ...

Operatives of the Nigerian Air Force have rescued seven Chinese nationals from a kidnap den in Kaduna State. On June 29, the Chinese ...

THE Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has said security agencies tackling insecurity are sometimes forced to negotiate with bandits and kidnappers ...

Jumoke Bamigboye, wife of a former military administrator of Osun State, Col. Theophilus Bamigboye (rtd), has been set free by the gunmen that ...

Nigeria Police Force, Katsina state cmand have confirmed the abduction of 21 children at a farm in Mai Ruwa community of Faskari Local ...

Youths of Oba community in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State have arrested two kidnappers and also rescued their victim while ...

A police officer has been confirmed killed on Friday when some unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers blocked the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The kidnappers ...

The people of Ibagun-Okelele community have called for collaboration between the Ilorin South, Ilorin East and Kwara State government to end the incessant ...

The Adamawa Police Command on Friday, said its operatives have arrested five suspected kidnappers. It further said the operatives recovered the sum of ...

In order to rake in N10 million from his parents, a 23-year-old boy, Edward Okache, has arranged his abduction by some men in ...

A police officer, Abdulmumini Yusuf, has allegedly been kidnapped by suspected gunmen in Ilorin, Kwara State. The victim, popularly called “Emirate No1”, is ...

four people have been kidnapped at Farm Settlement in Iseyin, Iseyin Local Government area of Oyo State. Chairman of the Farm Settlement Association, ...

Unknown gunmen at the weekend abducted the traditional ruler of Owa Onire town in Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state, his wife ...

On Thursday, the officers of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) shot a suspected kidnapper in Oyo State. The shooting took place ...

Nigeria Police has arrested one, John Lyon, for allegedly being involved in kidnapping in Bayelsa state and other part of the country, and ...

Kidnap ‘kingpin’ Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, and his co-defendant Victor Aduba were on Monday each given a sentence of 21 years ...

Nigerian Police has paraded a dismissed personnel of the Department of State Services, DSS, along with nine other suspected robbers in Abia State ...

Justice Binta Nyako has sentenced notorious Taraba-based kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume, to seven years without an option of a ...

Kwara State Government has appealed to the people of Obbo Aiyegunle to be calm in the wake of a fresh abduction and death ...

A senior journalist and former editor with The Sun Newspapers, Alhaji Abdulfatah Oladeinde, has recounted how he spent six gruelling days in the ...

One person was reportedly killed and 10 others abducted by gunmen, who invaded a Train- Stop Point in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, Monday. The ...

THE Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) has declared that it spent a whopping sum of N250 million to secure the release of its students ...

The Nigerian Police force, kwara state command as rejected a report published by an online platform, describing kwara as ‘New Haven of Kidnappers’. ...

A fish farmer, said to be a retired Deputy Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service, kidnapped last Thursday in Kwara state has been reportedly ...

The Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State Command has confirmed the abduction of farmer, Mohammed Zarma ‘M’ at Okejia Farm in Egbejila area of ...

Yet to be identified gunmen have reportedly killed a pregnant woman and kidnapped her husband along Offa-Ojoku road, in kwara state on Saturday ...

Renowned Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, has advised the Federal Government not to take the threat of kidnappers of students of Greenfield University, ...

After 56 gruelling days, the abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna ...

Some courageous youths in Odo-Owa in Oke- Ero local government area of Kwara State on Friday laid ambush for six suspected kidnappers who ...

The three abducted farm managers in Kwara State have been rescued by the state’s Police Command. We could recall that six suspected kidnappers, ...

Kidnapping for ransom in the South-West is now a growing phenomenon and has become a sort of headache to security personnel and the ...