Tag: kidnapping

The Nigeria Police Force says it has delivered crippling blows to organised crime, rescuing victims, apprehending key suspects, and seizing a cache of ...

The Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State Command has confirmed the arrest of one Mohammed Bello, aka Dandolo, alleged to be a notorious kidnapper ...

By Kayode Abdulazeez Security of lives and properties is enshrined in the Nigerian constitution as one of the cardinal responsibilities of government at ...

Three people have been confirmed to have sustained gunshot injuries during an attack on commercial buses with no less than 20 passengers onboard ...

The Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State Command has paraded suspects arrested for various crimes such as kidnapping, murder, armed robbery, cultism, and vandalism. ...

Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force, Kwara State Police Command, in collaboration with the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, have successfully thwarted an ...

Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Friday, expressed concern over the resurgence of kidnapping, banditry, attacks on security officers and continuous herders-farmers ...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted two journalists  in Danhonu community in Millennium City, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.  The ...

Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force, Kwara State Command, in collaboration with Nigerian soldiers and local vigilantes, have rescued the remaining eight kidnapped ...

The Delta State Police Command has rescued nine students who were abducted along the East-West Road in Ughelli, Delta State. Confirming the rescue, ...

Scores of schoolchildren abducted from Kuriga, Kaduna State have been released, two weeks after they were taken away in what was one of ...

Dozens of passengers are said to have been kidnapped in a broad daylight attack launched by some bandits in the Kankara Local Government ...

Nine of the 21 kidnapped students of the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara state, have been released by their abductors. One of the negotiators ...

As the nation grapples with security challenges, the Federal Government has charged the Nigerian Police Force to up its game. Part of what ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said his administration will not tolerate payment of ransom to criminal elements engaged in the abduction of citizens in some ...

President Bola Tinubu has said that no ransom will be paid for the rescue of the children abducted from Kuriga in Kaduna State. ...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that most incidents of kidnapping in the nation’s capital were stage-managed ...

Kidnappers have reportedly asked for a ransom of N40 trillion, 11 Hilux vans and 150 motorcycles for the release of 16 residents abducted ...

The Nigeria Police Force Kwara state command on Tuesday paraded five suspected kidnappers and recovered two rifles. Disclosing this via a statement issued ...

The Seriki n Fulani in Kwara South Senatorial District, Adamu Ojonla Mahmud, has called for a collective collaboration in tackling insecurity, saying tribal ...

Bandits in Katsina State who had abducted 55 persons mostly women while escorting a bride on Friday have released a video threatening to ...

Troops of 93 Battalion under 6 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have arrested a suspected female kidnapper while trying to pick ransom for ...

The Nigerian Police Force, Kwara State Command has confirmed the release of the kidnapped Wife of the Olukoro of Koro Kingdom. Late Oba ...

Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, has said that poverty and unemployment are responsible for the incessant security breaches in the North West. ...

The pupils and teachers of the Apostolic Faith Montessori School in Emure Ekiti kidnapped on January 29 have regained their freedom. The schoolchildren ...

Gunmen, who killed Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole, Olukoro of Koro-Ekiti in the Ekiti local government area of Kwara state and kidnapped his wife and ...

Gunmen last night invaded the palace of Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti local government area of Kwara State and killed the traditional ruler ...

The Ekiti State Government has confirmed the abduction of students, teachers, and a driver in the Emure-Ekiti area of the state but vowed ...

Family members of the Al-Kadriyar girls have revealed that they paid ransom to bandits for the release of five of the six girls ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police command, has disclosed that its operatives in collaboration with Nigerian Army has rescued victims who were kidnapped ...

A former Chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Samuel Agunwa Ohiri, has recounted his ordeal in kidnappers’ den. Ohiri, ...

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced three men on charges of kidnapping. Although four suspects were ...

The former president of the Senate, Abubakar Bukola Saraki has reacted to the news of the abducted six girls in the Bwari area ...

The Rivers State Police Command said its men gunned down two notorious kidnappers, including a gang leader nicknamed ‘Occasion’ during a shootout in ...

A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, today Thursday sentenced Sarkin Fulani of Kwara, Usman Adamu, his brother and one Gidaddo Idris ...

The Nigerian Police Force, Imo State Command has confirmed the gruesome murder of the traditional ruler of Otulu Amumara Autonomous Community in the ...

National Security Adviser, NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu says kidnapping has replaced armed robbery in Nigeria today because people no longer carry cash about. ...

The Nigerian Police Force, Kwara State Command has nabbed seven suspected kidnappers who are allegedly terrorizing Kwara South senatorial district. According to the ...

Respite has come for two kidnapped members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as they have been rescued by troops of the ...

The Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State Command has resolved to collaborate more with the point of sales operators and computer professionals in a ...

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times. A native of Ilesa in Osun State, Fayehun’s ordeal started on ...

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja has sentenced the kidnappers of Prof. Mike Ozekhome and Delta State Commissioner for Higher ...

The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS) Prof. Mu’azu Abubakar Gusau has said 12 students of the university kidnapped by bandits ...

Gunmen have kidnapped a charcoal dealer, Kola Bosere and his assistant simply identified as Philemon in Jebba, Moro local government area of Kwara ...

Since last month’s abduction of some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC and the driver of the vehicle while on their ...

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, says one of the Corps members abducted in Zamfara State ...

Suspected gunmen on Monday evening reportedly kidnapped a 60-year-old farmer, Mr Kayode Ajayi, along his farm located at Laduba village in the Asa ...

The National Coordinator, National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC),  Office of the National Security Adviser,  Rear Admiral Yaminu Musa (retd) has said kidnapping and ...

There has been a disturbing rise in cases of kidnapping across the country. The elite are not the only targets of kidnappers; workers, ...

A man, Taiwo Ishola, has allegedly killed two sons of his younger brother, Idowu, after he reportedly kidnapped the children at Abata, a ...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Monday morning invaded the farms of a former Senator representing Kwara South in the National Assembly, Simeon ...

Freed Anambra state native doctor, Mr. Chidozie Nwangwu, popularly known as Akwa Akuko Tiwaraki has boasted that he willingly offered himself to be ...

Mrs. Nkechinyere Onachukwu, kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be herders at her farm in Amaonye community in Ishiagu, Ivo local government area of Ebonyi State last ...

Kwara state Police command has identified alleged collaboration of indigenes and kidnap suspects as one of the major reasons for cases of kidnapping ...

Three persons, including a newly wed wife, Mrs. Rukkayat Musa and her two sister in-laws, recently kidnapped from their house at Emir’s road, ...

The Igbomina Professionals Association (IPA) has expressed dismay at the latest upsurge in security breaches in parts of Igbominaland with serial abductions and ...

A Northern youths group has asked president Muhammadu Buhari to humbly resign said the security challenge facing Nigeria, most especially Northern Nigeria which ...

A magaji Erubu, in Ilorin, Dr Zubair Erubu, has been reportedly kidnapped by yet to be identify gunmen in kwara state. confirming the ...

Unknown gunmen reportedly dressed in Army uniform have abducted 3 poultry farm managers at Pampo village in Asa local government area of Kwara ...

Oyo State Police Command has said that “water tight evidence” would be needed to prosecute the alleged notorious Fulani herder, Iskilu Wakili, who ...