Beyond the Headlines
Bandits have threatened to kill the remaining 17 students abducted from Greenfield University, Kaduna State, Daily Trust is reporting Twenty-two students and a member of staff were abducted from the school campus along the Kaduna-Abuja highway on April 20 and within a week, five of them were killed. In an interview with the Hausa Service […]
Gunmen have abducted the Pension Board Commissioner in Kogi State, police authorities confirmed to Channels Television on Sunday. It was gathered that the commissioner, Honourable Adebayo Solomon was killed on Saturday, while the Chairman of Yagba East Local Government, Pius Kolawole and some others were kidnapped. The slain commissioner was said to be travelling from […]
Troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) in Plateau have rescued a student who was abducted in the state. The victim — Kelvin Eze — a student of King’s College, Gana Ropp, Barkin Ladi LGA, was kidnapped on April 29. Ibrahim Shittu, media officer of the taskforce, in a statement on Sunday, said Eze was rescued […]
A boy kidnapped from his parent’s home in a Kaduna suburb has been found dead, seven days after he was taken and N5 million ransom paid for his release. Muhammad Kabir, taken from Badarawa suburb of Kaduna North local government area, is believed to have been killed by his kidnappers. His body was found in […]
Four students of Capro Secondary Mission School located at Gana Ropp in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State were abducted in the early hours of Thursday. However, three of the students have escaped, while one is still in captivity. The school is an arm of Calvary ministries. Capro is few kilometres away from […]
Three students who were abducted from the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM) in Benue state, have regained their freedom. Catherine Anene, Benue police public relations officer confirmed the development on Wednesday. The students were abducted when gunmen invaded the school premises on Saturday. Following the attack, the school management had suspended lectures while assuring […]
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted seven traders, comprising three women and four men while returning from Ugya Village Market, in Toto Local Government Council of Nasarawa State. A driver, who escaped the attack, Ibrahim Saidu, said the incident happened around 6:12 pm on Tuesday. He said the kidnappers first opened fire on his […]
Bandits who abducted the 39 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna state have released another video of the students including a pregnant female student. When contacted, a senior management staff of the college, who craved anonymity, identified the faces in the video as their students The […]
Anguish, anger, tears and emotional hopelessness yesterday enveloped the six geo-political zones of the country, as bandits, kidnappers, arsonists and armed robbers had a field day doing what they know how to do best-killing and unleashing pains on their victims. From what began like the usual stories breaking in the early hours of the day, […]
Three students have been abducted from the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), in Benue state during an attack on Saturday. TheCable understands the students were taken hostage by gunmen who invaded the school premises. The police, which had not been reachable, has confirmed that the attackers kidnapped the students at gunpoint. In a statement […]
