Police operatives in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested a 36-year-old mother of two children, Bunmi Samuel, her boyfriend, and 12 others for alleged kidnapping,...
Gunmen, said to have been heavily armed, on Sunday night, abducted the traditional ruler of of Gurku community in the Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa...
The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old for allegedly kidnapping her six-year-old daughter in Madobi local government area of the state. The state Police...
Four members of a kidnap syndicate who carry out their operations around the Nkpor-Umuoji-Ideani Road axis of Anambra State have been eliminated by security operatives. This...
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced a man to death by hanging for killing four persons and using their intestines to prepare pepper...
Tragedy struck in Imo State again, as reports have filtered in that masked terrorists have beheaded the Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area...
CLAIM: A facebook post claims that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu called Nigerians of South-East extraction kidnappers. VERDICT: False. FULL TEXT:...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has threatened to shut down hospitals in Rivers State over the abduction of its members by criminals. The NMA Secretary in...
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, on Monday, decried the spate of kidnapping and attacks by non-state actors in the South-West part of the country, especially along...
A so-called Abuja-based big boy, John Lyon, has been arrested by the police for allegedly belonging to a kidnap syndicate responsible for several high profile abductions...
Nigerians have been vociferous on social media between Tuesday and Wednesday as they lament the alleged kidnapping of one Ameerah and 16 others in Abuja. A...
The mother of the child who was allegedly kidnapped by a dispatch rider in Lagos state last weekend has confirmed that the embattled man is her...
American recording artiste, Kanye West has accused his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian of kidnapping their second daughter, Chicago West. The award winning rapper made the intense...
The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old notorious bandit, Sani Mati a.k.a. Mai-Yanmata, said to be specialised in kidnapping, banditry, cattle rustling and other...
Abductors have released a traditional Chief in Ijan Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government area of Ekiti State, Chief Emmanuel Obafemi and two kidnapped cocoa merchants after the...
In a bid to strengthen public safety and reduce rising cases of kidnapping, Kwara state Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq on Thursday launched an operation ‘uniform for commercial...
A 31-year-old man, Ekerete Ukpong, was on Thursday, sentenced to death by an Akwa Ibom State High Court after he was found guilty of kidnapping a...
Six members of staff abducted by gunmen from the University of Abuja have been rescued. On Tuesday, November 2, two professors, one non academic staff and...
A retired senior military officer, Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith, has been reportedly abducted by masked gunmen in the Ajah area of Lagos State. Smith, a...
A Bill proposing for life imprisonment for the “offence of kidnapping or any form of abduction, wrongful restraint and confinement,” on Tuesday, passed the second reading...
The 75 students of the Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, who were abducted by bandits on September 1,...
The Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Juma’at Mosque, Abuja, Sheikh Muhammad Khalid, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari yet again, over the increasing insecurity in the...
As a way of forestalling any security breach and abduction of students, the Adamawa State Government has ordered the indefinite closure of 30 out of 34...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lauded the release of abducted Nigerian students in the past few weeks by their abductors, but lamented the fact...
Two members of the Katsina State House of Assembly, on Monday, broke down in tears during plenary while deliberating over the escalating insecurity situation bedevilling the...
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, believes the only way the menace of bandits and other forms of violent criminality in the country can be eliminated...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday remanded eight herders for alleged kidnapping and collection of N22 million ransom. The defendants are: Umoru...
Bandits who abducted the Niger State Commissioner for Information, Muhammed Sanni Idris, have made a N500 million ransom to secure his release. Ripples Nigeria had reported...
Heavily armed gunmen have kidnapped the Niger State Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Muhammed Sanni Idris. Idris was abducted from his country home in Baban Tunga, Tafa...
The U.S. embassy in Kabul on Saturday called on American citizens to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible due to the security issues in the country....
A man identified as Kasimu Barangana, has been abducted by the bandits who kidnapped 138 pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, in Rafi Local Government...
The reported release of 28 of 118 abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state has stired mixed reactions...
Respite came the way of parents as 28 students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State have regained their freedom....
Five suspected kidnappers met their waterloo on Sunday in Edo State as angry youths set them ablaze after they were apprehended along the Afuze-Uokha Road in...
Gunmen have killed a Major General of the Nigerian Army, Hassan Ahmed, and abducted his wife in an attack in Abuja. Ahmed, who was recently appointed...
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the inability of his government to develop Nigeria to the lingering insecurity in the country. Buhari said this at a dinner...
A Kaduna State Security Incidents Report for the Second Quarter of 2021 presented to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Tuesday, has shown that 222 persons were killed,...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, said on Tuesday he knows the individuals behind kidnapping, banditry, and other forms of criminality in the state. Mohammed...
Bandits who abducted the provost of the College of Arts and Animal Science, Bakura, Habibu Mainasara, in Zamfara State, have demanded a ransom of N5 million...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, and a group under the aegis of Yoruba One Voice (YOV) have decried what they termed the “senseless...
The proscribed Igbo secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), says its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was abducted on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari, and has...
A member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Mohammed Ahmed, has been reportedly killed by suspected bandits along the Sheme-Funtua highway in Katsina State, while...
The controversial Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmed Gumi, who has continuously canvassed amnesty for the bandits in northern Nigeria, has said that banditry in the region is...
Bandits who abducted students and teachers from the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, in Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi State last Thursday, have released a...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has decried the persistent attacks and abductions of students by bandits in the north, saying the acts will ultimately...
The governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, has vowed to lead the rescue operation of students and teachers abducted on Thursday from Federal Government College (FGC),...
An 18-year-old man, Aminu Ali, has been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command for allegedly kidnapping and killing his 3-year-old cousin identified as Amina Ali....
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested a 19-year-old, Abdul Alhassan, and four other youths, who are suspected of involvement in kidnapping...
Abductors of 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, have reduced the N200 million ransom earlier...
A three-year-old pupil who was kidnapped alongside 156 others by bandits from the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, in Rafi local government area of Niger State,...
