Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, says it was the army that rescued the Al-Kadriyar sisters and other persons abducted from the Bwari area council of Abuja on January 2. The Al-Kadriyar sisters were reportedly released around midnight of Saturday. Last week, there were reports that Nabeeha, one of […]
The kidnappers of Barrister Cyril Adikwu’s wife and two in-laws from the Army Estate in Kurudu, Abuja, have demanded over 30 million naira in ransom. Recall that kidnappers invaded the estate on Thursday night at about 10:00 p.m. and took away his wife and two in-laws. Speaking with Vanguard about the incident, Barrister Cyril […]
The FCT Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Chinaza Phillip, a notorious Abuja kidnapper by police operatives of the Kaduna State Police Command on Thursday. The suspect has been handed over to FCT police Command on Friday and currently in police custody. More details will be communicated soon….
Bandits who abducted six sisters and their father in the Bwari area council of the federal capital territory (FCT) have threatened to kill more girls if N100 million ransom is not paid. In a statement on Sunday, a family member of the girls who pleaded not to be named for security reasons, said the […]
Two South Koreans abducted nearly three weeks ago by an unidentified armed group in Rivers State, Southern Nigeria have been released, the foreign ministry in Seoul disclosed Saturday. The two Koreans, who were abducted on December 12, are employees of Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co., a major South Korean builder, according to Seoul’s Yonhap […]
The police authorities in Nasarawa State have rescued a lecturer with the state university in Keffi, Isaac Igbawua, from his abductors. Igbawua, of the Department of Microbiology, was kidnapped by gunmen from his residence along Old Barracks, Kokona Local Government Area on December 27, 2023. A day after his abduction, the Nasarawa State Police […]
The police authorities in Enugu State have debunked a video clip currently in circulation, alleging that a part of the state is not safe due to a series of kidnappings. There have been reported cases of kidnapping in the past week despite having the manning of security checkpoints as well as a mobile police […]
Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, clad in military fatigue have kidnapped the Operations Manager of a new generation bank, Mrs. Nneka Ugonochie in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The incident, it was learned, occurred at 7 a.m., on Friday at the Yenizue-Gene suburb of the state capital. The victim, an indigene of Owerri in Imo State, […]
At least fifteen persons have been kidnapped by gunmen in the Pegi neighborhood of the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The gunmen were alleged to have assaulted the 1,000 Housing Estate at 11.30 pm on Sunday, May 14th, 2023 and fired intermittently into the air, taking some people returning from […]
After eight days in captivity, kidnappers of the Cross River State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Prof Gertrude Njar, have demanded N150 million for her release. This is according to an update shared by the publisher of Cross Rivers Watch, Agba Jalingo, on his official Facebook page. The commissioner was abducted within the Mayne Avenue-Atamunu […]
