The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the failed kidnapping attempt on Alhaji Umar Musa, the Paramount Ruler of Ninzo Chiefdom in Sanga Local Government Area,...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has dismissed one Adabo Mohammed for alleged robbery and kidnapping in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Force Public Relations Officer,...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has identified unemployment as the major reason for the rising spate of criminal activities like banditry and kidnapping in Nigeria. OBJ who...
Worried by the escalating insecurity and constant kidnappings in Kaduna State, President Bola Tinubu on Sunday, ordered an emergency stakeholders’ meeting meant to offer solutions to...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, said that kidnappings in the city were stage-managed by unscrupulous elements who were out to...
The Chief Judge of Taraba State, Justice Joel Agya, on Friday sentenced two men, Yusufa Adamu and Adamu Abdullahi to death by hanging for kidnapping in...
The Senate on Wednesday called for the recruitment of more police personnel to check kidnappings and other crimes in the country. This followed the adoption of...
The Rivers has dismissed reports on the release of three officers accused of kidnapping and extorting $3,000 from two victims in the state. The command’s spokesperson,...
The Nigerian government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States for the training of commanders of the Police Special Intervention Squad (SIS)...
‘EBURU ozu onye ozo, odika ebu osisi kporo nku’ is a common saying in my Igbo nation part of Nigeria. I cannot readily remember the English...
The Senator Representing the Federal Capital Territory, Ireti Kingibe, on Sunday, said the Senate will summon the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, over the rising rate...
Amnesty International, an international non-governmental organisation (INGO), has asked the Nigerian govt under President Bola Tinubu to treat the recent rising wave of kidnapping incidents across...
The immediate past Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami has expressed disappointment over the non-utilisation of the National Identity Number (NIN) linked to Subscriber...
Two US-based Nigerians, one Mike and his sister, who were kidnapped on New Year day in Afikpo, Ebonyi State, have regained freedom. They were said to...
The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has demanded the prompt release of the Administrative judge of Oron Judicial Division, Justice Joy...
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have gunned down two notorious kidnap kingpins who were on the most wanted list of the command. The Command’s...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Sunday, said Bwari, Kuje and Abaji area councils are worst hit by kidnappings. Director of Administration and Finance, FCTA...
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)...
A female student of the Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Taye Ajoke, who was kidnapped by bandits on Monday, has regained her freedom after...
The Nigerian government has debunked allegations by the Zamfara State governor, Dauda Lawal that the federal government was secretly negotiating with bandits without the involvement of...
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...
The Nigerian government has given reasons why terrorism has continued to thrive in the country despite efforts to bring it to a halt. National Coordinator of...
A report released by the Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Tuesday has revealed that not less than 23 pastors have...
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...