Gunmen holding six assistant superintendents of police (ASPs) have demanded N100 million for their release. The policemen who have been held hostage for over a week were attached to the Mobile Police Squadron 6, Maiduguri, Borno State. Eight ASPs were on their way to the Zamfara State Police Command on transfer when they were ambushed […]
A map showing Kaduna, a state in Nigeria’s North-Central region. A map showing Kaduna, a state in Nigeria’s north-west region. The district head of Gidan Zaki village in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Haruna Kuye and his son have been killed by gunmen suspected to be bandits. According to a statement issued […]
The Kaduna State Government says troops on internal security operations have rescued nine persons kidnapped along Kaduna-Abuja highway on Sunday afternoon. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan said this in a statement on Monday in Kaduna. Aruwan said that the government received operational feedback that the victims were rescued […]
Police have arrested a teacher for kidnapping his eight-year-old former pupil in the Akute area of Ogun State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, saying the suspect – Odugbesan Ayodele, 29 – was apprehended on Wednesday last week. He explained that the arrest followed […]
….10 rescued by police, four kidnappers arrested No fewer than 16 market women market leaders and other passengers have been abducted along Akure/ Owo highway in Ondo state by gunmen. However, 10 of the victims have been rescued while four of the kidnappers have been arrested by the police. Vanguard gathered that the Iyaloja of […]
An Ado Ekiti High on Thursday sentenced one Kayode Seun, 28, (aka DJ Glory) to life imprisonment for kidnapping. In his judgement, Justice Abiodun Adesodun said, the accused was found guilty as charged and was convicted accordingly. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the charge sheet, the offence was committed on or about […]
Irate youths Tuesday morning reportedly razed the Divine Shadow Church belonging to one Prophet Joshua Uhembe and selected buildings of his alleged accomplice, Noah Saka in Daudu, Guma Local Government Area of Benue State over their purported complicity in the disappearance of male genital organs in community. The angry youths had last Saturday morning barricaded […]
Gunmen kidnapped 11 teachers from a primary school in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region, the head of the Presbyterian Church said. Heavily armed assailants stormed the church-run school in the town of Kumbo in the country’s North-West Region on Tuesday, Reverend Samuel Fonki, the head of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, told dpa. “The administration is […]
US military forces rescued an American citizen in Nigeria , the Pentagon said on Saturday , days after he was kidnapped by gunmen in the south of neighbouring Niger and apparently taken across the border. The hostage , Philip Walton , was abducted Monday night on the outskirts of Massalata , a village about 10 […]
An American citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Niger earlier this week has been freed, the country’ s defence minister told AFP on Saturday . “ I confirm the American hostage was released last night, ” minister Issoufou Katambe said , without giving details of the circumstances of the release or the hostage ’ s whereabouts […]
