Tag: Kidnapping

8 years after, abductors of Akas Baba reveals why Wazobia FM presenter wasn’t killed

The abductors of media personality, Anthony Akatakpo popularly known as Akas Baba,

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Bandits kill soldier, kidnap 2 workers on Kaduna farm

Armed bandits have reportedly killed a soldier and kidnapped two workers on

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Kidnappers demand N10m ransom from family of abducted Kogi widow

Suspected kidnappers, who took a middle age widow and mother of four

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Kidnapping of Nigerians makes me sad – Buhari tells security chiefs

President Muhammadu Buhari says the kidnapping of Nigerians by criminal elements makes

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Another Ekiti monarch escapes kidnapping, untimely death

The Atah of Ayede-Ekiti, Oba Afeleye Orisagbemi, narrowly escaped death in the

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Kidnapping: Police burst 12-man gang terrorising travellers on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

The Police Command in Oyo State has arrested no fewer than 12

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Kidnapping: My sight failing – Evans’ co-defendant tells court

Joseph Emeka, one of the co-defendants of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike

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Police arrest 12 for kidnapping, conspiracy, robbery in Niger

The Police Command in Niger says it has arrested 12 suspects for

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NSCDC arrests suspected kidnapping syndicate collaborator, recover pistol

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a suspected

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‘Bandits waylay 3 Sokoto-bound buses, abduct 60 passengers in Zamfara’

There is confusion over the number of Sokoto-bound commuters abducted by bandits

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We’re in the business of kidnapping to feed – Abductors tell released Kogi doctor

A medical practitioner that was kidnapped on Monday in Kogi, Dr. Solomon

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Kidnapping: Transporters, passengers engage in fervent prayers before departure in Kaduna

Operators of commercial vehicles and passengers in Kaduna have taken to observing

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Gory details emerge of traditional healer raping girl, 15, in Lagos hotel

A teenager (name withheld) on Tuesday narrated before an Ikeja Sexual Offences

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Foreign Investors Pull Out N1.64tr From Stock Market Over Insecurity

Nigeria stock market due to prevailing insecurity, among other macroeconomic challenges continue

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“We won’t be taken unawares” – Ortom sets up committee to prevent kidnapping in Benue schools

The Benue State Government has set up a committee to look into

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End banditry, kidnapping before farming season – Northern governors urge Acting IGP

The Northern Governors Forum has urged Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP),

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Kidnapping: Nigeria must learn from Pakistan, other countries – Saraki

Former President of the Senate Bukola Saraki has advised Nigeria to find

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“Youths engage in cultism, kidnapping; elders can’t kidnap, burn police stations” – Ebonyi governor

The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, says Nigerian youths and not

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Nigeria’s riches makes kidnapping attractive – Masari

The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, says kidnapping is attractive

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APC Chieftain Urges Security Agencies to End Kidnappings of Children

  Alhaji Tijjani Tumsah, a former Interim National Secretary of the All

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Find Lasting Solution to Kidnapping in Nigeria Schools – NCWS Begs FG

  The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) has appealed to the

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Insecurity: Kano Govt. Orders Immediate Closure of 12 Boarding Schools

  The Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of 12

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UNICEF Condemns Kidnapping of Schoolgirls in Zamfara State

   The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the

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You can’t control kidnapping without punishing offenders – Ojukwu tells govt

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, has

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Banditry, kidnapping have become businesses – Rep

Alhaji Aminu Sani, former House of Representatives member for Kaura-Namoda/Birnin-Magaji Federal Constituency

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Fani-Kayode reacts as Facebook removes essay on Sunday Igboho

Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has castigated social media giant, Facebook

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How I almost ended in hands of Boko Haram – Lagos varsity DVC abducted in Nasarawa

University don, Prof. Johnson Fatokun says the Fulani men that kidnapped him

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Archbishop Condemns Kidnapping of Catholic Priests

  Most Rev. Dr. Ignatius Kaigama, Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, has

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Gunmen kidnap traveler in Ekiti State as Amotekun Corps, police rescue another

Gunmen kidnapped a traveller on the Isan-Iludun-Ekiti highway in Oye Local Government

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Wife births triplets as bandits kidnap husband in Kaduna

The wife of a kidnapped Kaduna resident, Abubakar Muhammed, has given birth

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