The Kano State Police Command has arrested about 100 suspected criminals alleged to have committed various offences such as kidnapping, armed robbery. among others, in the...
Some unknown gunmen have allegedly abducted a lecturer at the Department of Mathematical Science, Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Prof. Gideon Okedayo. It was...
The kidnapped Permanent Secretary of the Enugu State Ministry of Lands and Urban Development, Mr. Augustine Udeh, has been released. Mr. Udeh was abducted by unknown...
The Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has revealed that two person sent to deliver ransom for the release of two children...
The Nigeria Police Force has been challenged to account for the whereabouts of over 500 paraded suspected armed Fulani bandits, kidnappers and other armed hoodlums arrested...
Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State Chapter, Rev. Joseph Hayab is lamenting the continued abduction of a Bishop, a Pastor and two...
Police in Ogun state command on Thursday said some kidnappers had laid ambush on the members of Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Ogun community. A statement by...
Six members of the Vigilante group in Kebbi were on Tuesday arrested by police operatives for killing kidnap suspects. The state Commissioner of police commissioner, Garba...
Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Monday said he was considering death penalty for kidnappers in the state. Abiodun disclosed this, when Remo League of Imams...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday directed the Defence Headquarters to begin immediate probe of the incident where Nigerian soldiers’ alleged killed three policemen to save a...
The son of a late popular comedian, James Iroha, who played Gringory in the one time popular New Masquerade Television series, has narrated his ordeal in...
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has warned that there is looming anarchy in the land if the siege on Yorubaland by herdsmen and kidnappers...
Lawyers under the auspices of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Owo branch, Ondo State have said they would not defend any kidnapper or bandit caught in...
The Ondo state police command has revealed how the daughter of Afenifere’s leader, Funke Olakunrin was murdered in Ore area of the state. The state police...
Nigerian Service Chiefs, on Thursday revealed that they have changed strategy in addressing the unending insecurity plaguing the country. They told this to State House correspondents...
Lawmakers at Oyo state House of Assembly on Thursday requested for the service of vigilante groups to combat the looming insecurity in the state from suspected...
The kidnapped son of ex-Minister of Health, Proof. Isaac Adewole, Dayo, has been released by his abductors. Dayo was released less than 24 hours after he...
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...