Authorities of the Nigerian Army, police and other security agencies deployed in the ongoing war against banditry and kidnapping in Katsina State have launched investigations into...
Igbo residents particularly in Gboko, Benue State have raised an alarm over the danger posed to their lives following spates of targeted kidnappings and murder of...
Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oyo State, on Tuesday, pledged its readiness to fight kidnapping and other related criminalities in the state. A...
The Kaduna State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Joseph Hayab, has been accused of politicising the security challenges in the state over...
Otunba Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, has assured South Westerners of his resolve to battle insecurity in the region to a standstill....
Unknown gunmen on Saturday morning reportedly abducted a lecturer with the Federal University, Dutsinma in Kaduna State. The lecturer, Abubakar Idris was reportedly forced into his...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) In the last election, Atiku Abubakar has added his voice to the list of Nigerians who have condemned...
The leader of a Fulani ethnic organisation, Gan-Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria (GAFDAN), Alhaji Saleh Bayeri, on Sunday claimed that kidnapping, banditry and other vices...
The Zamfara state Director of Budget, Hamza Salihu, was on Sunday kidnapped while his deputy, Kabiru Ismail, was murdered near Kachia in Kaduna State while on...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has again written President Muhammadu Buhari over the need to avert a looming disaster in Nigeria. In an open letter addressed to...
Mrs. Ogere Siasia, mother of a former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has been reportedly kidnapped on Monday. According to reports, she was kidnapped in her...
The Adamawa state police command has confirmed the killing of an uncle of Elisha Abbo, the senator representing Adamawa north, on Saturday in the state. Suleiman...
A police sergeant, Moses Jacob and a kidnapper were killed on Friday during a gun battle between the police and a gang of Kidnappers in Anambra...
The Taraba House of Assembly has amended the state’s Kidnapping and Abduction Prohibition Act 2010, to introduce death penalty and life imprisonment for offenders. Majority Leader...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Ondo State has dismissed news of kidnap of any Corps members in the State. Mr Bankole Simeone, the Corps’...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday deployed Police dogs to railway stations across the county to curtail kidnapping and other related criminal offence....
A 30-year-old Methodist priest, Rev Peter Adegoke Adewuyi has been remanded in prison custody by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court for allegedly faking his own kidnap to...
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina has admitted that the level of insecurity in the country had put...
A senator representing Oyo North, Sen. Abdulfatai Buhari, on Sunday suggested death penalty for anyone caught culpable in crime relating to kidnapping and other related offences...
The Nigerian Army has launched two drones to help it fight the scourge of Kidnapping in Ondo and Ekiti states, which according to the army has...
The British Government through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO, has warned British nationals against travelling to about 21 states in Nigeria. The travel advisory, posted...
The Imo State Police Command has announced the arrest of one suspected kidnapper, Kelechi Darlington and the rescue of a kidnap victim, Kingsley Okeke by the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his sadness over the slow pace of inventions and discoveries in Nigerian universities since the country got her independence. The president...
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...
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 Ebonyi State Police Command on Friday, paraded a total of nineteen suspects for criminal offences ranging from kidnapping, cultism, armed robbery, vandalism and car snatching...
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has advocated for tougher legislation against kidnapping and banditry. He made this call while addressing a delegation of the...
The Office of the National Security Adviser, NSA and the armed forces, Thursday, met on Thursday in Abuja to draw up a policy document to tackle...
The Anambra State Police Command has revealed that it on Wednesday arrested two female suspects involved in a child-stealing syndicate. The suspects identified as Ifeyinwa Ezename,...
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...
The Anambra State Police Command have arrested one Nweke Chijioke, a pastor, for allegedly kidnapping an 11-year-old boy. Chijioke was arrested alongside his accomplice, Samuel Emeka...
The Ekiti State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of two persons, said to be twins, while they were travelling on Sunday. The General Secretary of...
As part of efforts to combat banditry, kidnappings and other criminal activities, the Nasarawa State police command has launched Operation Puff Adder in the state. State...
A 19-year-old, Zaharadeen Isah, has been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for attempting to kidnap one Sarafa Jimoh of Tufah Village in the Gurara...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians to pray for the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to be able to tackle the current state of...
The police has stated its arrest of some kidnappers terrorizing some parts of the country. In a statement that was made available to Ripples Nigeria by...
The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Ibok Ekwe-Ibas, Thursday, insisted that kidnapping has reduced across the country with the increased efforts of the security agencies. Ekwe-Ibas...
As part of efforts to tackle insecurity in the country, the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has launched new counter-kidnapping strategies. The new strategies which...
Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has denied claims the Nigerian government offered to pay Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) N100...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has again accused President Muhammadu Buhari of not having solutions to the problems plaguing the nation. Speaking against the backdrop of...
President Muhammadu Buhari, reacting to the spate of kidnappings across the country, has said the lack of jobs for the youths has made kidnapping a new...
As part of efforts to end the increasing activities of bandits and kidnappers terrorising the area, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Saturday inaugurated 271 Detachment...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has asked that President Muhammadu Buhari and other top holders of public offices be barred from foreign trips until the insecurity...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the current wave of kidnappings, banditry and other violent crimes across the country would soon be things of the past....
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,...
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...
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...
A man, Chukwudi Onweniwe, has been sentenced to death by an Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, for killing his girlfriend, Nifemi Adeyeoye Adeyeoye, a...
