The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the federal government of Nigeria and government at all levels to employ urgent and pragmatic action to end...
A 24-year-old suspected kidnapper, Habibu Sale has been arrested by the Kano State Police for the alleged kidnap and death of an eight-year-old girl, Asiya Tasiu,...
A traditional ruler in Imo State, Eze Andrew Okuegbunuwa, and one Pastor Caleb Agu have been arrested by police in Imo State for alleged kidnapping. Eze...
A 75-year-old blind Internally displaced person, Pa Jato Ndarfa, has cried out for help over a demand for N20 million ransom by the deadly Boko Haram...
Delta State government said on Tuesday it had commenced moves to establish a security force to check rising insecurity in the state. The Secretary to the...
One Nsem Godwin has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly abducting two children, aged four months and 9 years in Okitipupa, Okitipupa...
The Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State, on Thursday adjourned the case of alleged kidnapping and cattle rustling involving a former Commissioner of Local...
Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 20 persons kidnapped on Thursday by insurgents during an attack on Babban Gida, the administrative headquarters of Tarmuwa Local...
After spending two weeks in captivity, a kidnapped judge of the Court of Appeal, Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme has regained her freedom. Some gunmen had on October...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, Monday stated that it was impossible to end the menace of kidnapping in the country. Wike, who who was speaking during...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has ordered the immediate amendment of the penal code to death penalty for kidnappers in the state. The governor gave...
Parents of the schoolgirls who were kidnapped in Kaduna State have countered recounted bizarre details of how their children regained freedom. In doing so, they also...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said he is not in support or criminality while reacting to the discovery of child theft and fake correctional centres by...
Local authorities in the Brinin Gwari area of Kaduna State have confirmed the kidnapping of Abdul Hafiz Abdullahi, the Head teacher of Dangamji, Primary School. Eyewitnesses...
The governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku has revealed that over 100 cases of kidnapping was recorded in the state, and about N250 million paid as...
Abductors of female students and staff of Engravers College, Kaduna State have insisted on the payment of N10million each as ransom for the six students and...
The Nigeria Senate on Wednesday decried the activities of kidnappers and bandits on highways across the country. On how to stop the menace, Senate President Ahmad...
Three soldiers have been dismissed by the Nigerian Army in Borno State for alleged involvement in Kidnapping, armed robbery and killings. The soldiers were said to...
The governor of Katsina State, Bello Aminu Masari has cried for help to put a stop to the increasing spate of kidnapping, banditry and other related...
62 days after her abduction, the whereabouts of Beauty Ogere, mother of former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, remains unknown. The Bayelsa State police has lamented...
A professor of mathematical science at the Ondo State University of Science and Technology who was abducted last week, Gideon Okedayo, has been confirmed dead. Chairman...
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...
