The Nigerian wing of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria), has written a petition to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, demanding the immediate release of Segun Olatunji,...
The Edo State government has vowed to do everything possible to rescue the abducted Chairman of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Tony Aziegbemi,...
The rescue of the over 278 school children and teachers abducted by bandits from the LEA Primary School and the Government Secondary School, Kuriga, Kaduna State...
Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and former Coordinating Minister for Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has lamented the renewed abduction of Nigerian school children by...
Spokesman for the Zamfara State Police Command, ASP Yazid Abubakar, has confirmed the rescue of one of the worshippers who was abducted by bandits who attacked...
An unspecified number of worshippers were on Thursday morning, abducted when heavily armed bandits invaded a mosque in Tsafe town, the headquarters of Tsafe local government...
Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a sales representative, Chiwendu Owuasoanya, to seven years in...
Bandits, who abducted seven residents of Kuduru community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on December 28, have demanded N290 million ransom,...
Bandits who abducted 121 students from the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State in 2021, have released the last of the victims after two years...
The Nigerian military has challenged the Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to provide evidence showing that it’s chairman was abducted by soldiers....
Heavily armed bandits on Friday night, invaded the Anguwar Dankali community in Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where they reportedly killed five residents, injured...
Barely two weeks after gunmen abducted over 20 female students of the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, five female students of the Federal University, Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA)...
Unknown gunmen have abducted the Benue State Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism, Matthew Abo. The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Hyacinth Alia, Kula Tersoo, who...
A report published on Thursday by an international children’s NGO, Save the Children, has revealed that well over 1,680 school children have been kidnapped in Nigeria...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a father and his daughter in connection with the abduction of a Muslim cleric, Alhaji Ibra Alli Bodunde. Bodunde,...
Angry students have taken to the streets in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital to protest the abduction of five of their colleagues by bandits. The protesters,...
The Niger State Police Command has confirmed the killing of 25 farmers and the abduction of scores of others by bandits who invaded several communities in...
Bandits on Monday, invaded the Shiwaka, Unguwan Bagudu and Sabonlayi communities of Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing two and abducting 30 locals. This...
The Catholic Priest of Christ the King Parish, Ezinachi/Ugwaku under the Okigwe Catholic Diocese, Reverend Father Jude Maduka has been kidnapped by rampaging gunmen in the...
The Nigerian Army has confessed that it does not have the capacity or required technology to locate the whereabouts of the remaining Chibok schoolgirls abducted by...
Residents of Gwarinpa’s Jenew (Genuine) Estate have refuted claims that some of their neighbors were kidnapped in the early hours of Monday. The assailants allegedly stormed...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking authorisation from the Pre-Trial Chamber of the court to open an investigation into cases of abduction...
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...
Heavily armed gunmen suspected to be marauding herdsmen have again attacked the Yelwata community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, beheading two residents and...
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,...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ordered security agencies to end what he called the selective abductions and killings in the North-West and North Central parts of...
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 remaining 136 students of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya, Tegina, Niger State who were kidnapped from their school about 89 days ago have regained their freedom. According...
Bandits in the early hours of Tuesday attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, killing two officers and abducting another in the process. The attacked on the...
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...
Due to the widespread abductions of schoolchildren across Nigeria, the Nigeria-British Forum has appealed to the United Nations over tackling the scourge. This appeal was made...
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...
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the British government of abandoning his client to his...
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...
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....
Bandits on Friday attacked Dansadau community in Maru local government area of Zamfara State. Incoming reports say three people were killed, and about seven others kidnapped....
Following the abduction of the daughter of Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan, Najib Alikhil, the Afghan government has ordered the withdrawal of all its diplomats from the...
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...
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,...
In the first half of 2021, a total of 2,371 persons were kidnapped and N10 billion demanded in ransoms. This is contained in a report released...
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...
Two children of the same parents, Eric Abba and Aondona Abba, who were abducted by unknown people on Saturday in Benue State, have been found dead...
But for the timely intervention of soldiers in the early hours of Monday, bandits would have succeeded in abducting students of the Faith Academy, Kaduna, a...
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),...
The Enugu State Police command has confirmed that the coach of Rivers United, Stanley Eguma was abducted by unknown men on Tuesday. The coach was said...
