The Yoruba Koya Leadership and Training Foundation, a pan-Yoruba social-cultural group, has lamented over the ongoing insecurity ravaging the region in the hands of suspected Fulani...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a Fulani herdsman belonging to a team of kidnappers on Tuesday. The herdsman was arrested after a failed attempt...
Herdsmen struck on Sunday in Akure as they abducted a woman, Mrs Olawumi Adeleye, and her stepson, Destiny Paul, on Airport Road, Osi, in the Akure...
Two siblings, 10-year-old Chinezerem Nkwoemezie and 8-year-old Nzube Nkwoemezie, have been rescued from their abductors by police detectives attached to the Isiowulu Division in Anambra state....
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that a woman, Justina Emmanuel, who accused her husband, Joseph Agugom, and his brother Paul, of kidnapping her and...
The Osun State Police Command has rescued one Bewaji Oladipo, who was allegedly abducted by kidnappers at an ATM point in Lagos. The victim, according to...
The Nigeria Police Force has announced the arrest of 38 persons suspected to be involved in Kidnapping and banditry in the Northwest. According to the force,...
81 suspects arrested for their alleged involvement in kidnapping, cultism and armed robbery have been arrested by the Nasarawa State Police Command. The suspects were paraded...
The Yoruba Council of Elders has raised the alarm that Yoruba land, Southwest Nigeria, is under siege of herdsmen. The council therefore called on the Yoruba...
A Lance Corporal in the Nigerian Army, Ojiegbe Obinna, has been arrested by the police in Ekwulobia, Aquata Local Government Area of Anambra State for alleged...
Despite the ongoing efforts by Nigerian security men to curtail the activities of banditry in Northwest part of the country, a new wave of kidnappers’ group...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, on Friday, signed the ammended state Penal Code into law prescribing the death penalty for kidnappers and cattle ruatlers. The...
Nigerian Senate has been urged to come to the aid of the people of Sokoto East, an area said to have been taking over by armed...
The Oyo State Police Commissioner, Shina Olukoju, has paraded 10 students and three artisans for belonging to cult groups in the state. Also paraded were suspected...
Operatives of Nigeria Police have arrested the kidnapper of a mother-in-law to Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari. At the parade of the suspects at the...
Operatives of the Nigeria police attached to operation Puff Adder have arrested 93 kidnap suspects with various dangerous weapons. In a statement released on Thursday, Force...
The prolonged silence of suspected kidnappers since the abduction of Magajin Garin Daura Musa Umar Uba at his residence in Daura, is raising more questions than...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police attached to Operation Puff Ader, have rescued five Chinese nationals and 22 others who were kidnapped in different parts of the...
A suspect in the killing of two Bureau De Change operators has narrated how his gang killed them after collecting N1.6 million in the Odogunyan area...
Kidnappers struck again on Saturday as two expatriates, working with the Nigerian Delta Petroleum Resources, were abducted in Ogbele, Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State,...
Three policemen were on Tuesday sentenced to death for kidnapping by an Akwa Ibom State High Court, Uyo. The court presided over by Justice Joy Unwana,...
The Kogi State Command has rescued three children that were left stranded after suspected kidnappers seized their parents in Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State...
A Taraba State group, Jukun Development Association of Nigeria, has said that the insecurity going on in Zamfara is not comparable to that of Taraba. The...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested four persons for engaging in kidnapping in the Akoko area of the state in recent times. The Commissioner of...
Former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) chairman in Taraba State, Joel Daniel, has been freed by the unknown gunmen who kidnapped him. The former NBA chair was...
The arrest of four suspected Fulani herdsmen has been confirmed by the Enugu State Police Command over the kidnapping of a Catholic priest, Rev Fr Lazarus...
Three suspected kidnappers terrorising Rivers State have been killed by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit in Rivers State, led by ACP. Bennett...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, says the state is under siege by bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers. He said this during the opening ceremony of an...
There are indications that states in the South-West, some of which are currently grappling with the menace of kidnappings, have initiated plans to take advantage of...
Relief has come the way of eight victims who were passengers on a bus ambushed and seized around Ubima axis of Port Harcourt-Owerri Road by hoodlums...
Four-year-old son of the Chairman of Borno State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ali Bukar-Dalorin, has been kidnapped. The Borno Police Commissioner, Demian Chukwu,...
There was a harvest of criminals on display as the Rivers State Police Command paraded no less than 28 suspected robbers and kidnappers for committing various...
Residents of Dandume and Sabuwa Local Government Councils of Katsina State on Friday cried out over what they described as ‘incessant rate of kidnapping’ of its...
A blogger and publisher of AbaCityblog.com, Mr. Ngozi Blessed Onwukwe, has been reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen in Umuahia, the Abia State capital. An eyewitness said...
Body of a lawmaker representing Takum I in the Taraba State House of Assembly, Hon. Hosea Ibi, has been discovered in a bush at Kwari village...
The police in Imo State have reportedly arrested two persons in connection to the kidnap and murder of a Catholic priest in the state, Rev Fr...
Unknown gunmen have struck again at the East West road in Emohua Local Government Area in Rivers State when they abducted a commercial bus with 11...
A group of criminals comprising 18 suspected kidnappers 22 armed robbers and 30 cult members were paraded at the premises of the Rivers State Police Command...
The kidnappers involved in the abduction of six students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, may be rewarded with employments by the Federal Government as part...
Relief has come the way of a 73-year-old woman identified only as Eunice after she was freed from the den of kidnappers by men of the...
There was palpable relief in the camp of concerned parents whose kids are among the six pupils of Igbonla Model College who are in the den...
A close call at their camp by security agents has forced the kidnappers of six students of Lagos Model College, Igbonla, in Epe, to threaten concerned...
The Abia State Government has launched an offensive against suspected kidnappers in the state after it demolished properties of those believed to be engaged in the...
The concerned parents whose kids were kidnapped at about 6am on Thursday, May 25 at the school premises of Igbonla Model College, Epe, by masked militants...
Once again, the kidnappers of six pupils of Igbonla Model College, Epe, have reached out to concerned parents informing them that the ransom for the release...
A meeting between the Lagos State Government and parents of the six abducted pupils of Igbonla Model College, Epe, has revealed the stance of the government...
The kidnappers of six Senior Secondary School students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, in Epe area, had reportedly earlier written a letter to the school...
In what played out like a scene from an action movie, a businessman who resides in the Amaraku community area of Isiala Mbano Local Government Area...
At least two soldiers and five policemen are reported dead after a gun battle with militants on Saturday night. The incident reportedly took place at Woodland...
The Bauchi State Police Command paraded 131 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers, thugs, rape suspects and rescued 21 hostages, among them 12 women arrested between January 10th...
