The Minister of Information and Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said on Monday the Federal Government did not pay ransom to secure the release of children abducted by...
Gunmen, who kidnapped the Kaduna school children have contacted a spokesman for the families of the hostages, demanding a total of 1 billion naira for the...
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said it would not pay “a dime” as ransom to secure the release of the over 280 pupils and teachers of...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Unknown gunmen dressed in military fatigue, suspected to be kidnappers, again abducted Madam Betinah Benson, the 90-year-old mother of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government...
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...
Abductors of the Emir of Kajaru, Alhassan Adamu have issued a demand of N200 million ransom payment for his release. Ripples Nigeria had reported that the...
A group of suspected hackers are demanding a $70 million ransom to restore data they are holding on to after a recent data pirate spree. The...
Abductors of a University of Jos lecturer, Dr. Dan Ella, have demanded a N10 million ransom to secure his release. Ella, who is a lecturer in...
Abductors of 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, have reduced the N200 million ransom earlier...
Bandits who abducted pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State have increased the ransom for their release...
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mohammed Buba Marwa, says terrorists and kidnappers in Nigeria now demand for drugs as payment...
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...
Operatives of Taraba State Police command on Friday said a 22 year old man, Abdulbasit Umar, has been arrested for the kidnap of his own sister,...
The Vice-Chairman of Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Galadima, has told the Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahman Danbazau that residents of the...
Following the presentation of a United Nations report to the UN Security Council which revealed that Nigeria paid ransom to secure the release of female students...
…Abductors demand fresh N1.5m as ‘transport fare’ A competent government official, who would not want his name in print, yesterday told Vanguard that another N20 million...
A group of unidentified kidnappers who stormed the Turkish International School, located in Isheri, a border town between Lagos and Ogun states, abducting two staff members...
The kidnapers that abducted four students, a teacher and JSS principal of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, have reportedly contacted the families of their victims...
The Abia State police command said it had arrested 16 suspected kidnappers and some armed robbery suspects terrorising residents of the state. The Commissioner of Police...
Kidnappers of Chief Watson Iti, the father of the member representing Brass Constituency 2 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Alfred Belimote Watson have demanded N70...
Oniba of Iba community in Lagos, Oba Goriola Oseni , the abducted Lagos monarch, regained freedom from his captors on Saturday. The 74-year-old Oba was kidnapped...
A rescued refugee Endalkachew Gebrehiwot who spent 10 months in Libya has revealed that he’d rather die at sea than return to the war torn North...
After seven days in captivity of his abductors the family of Oniba of Iba Town, Oba Yushau Oseni, has been contacted by his kidnappers. Ripples Nigeria...
Maj. Gen. Alfred Nelson (retd.), the Sierra Leone Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, has been kidnapped, with the abductors demanding about N44million. Nelson who was reportedly...
Freedom came the way of kidnapped chairman and Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, Hon. Ishola Balogun Fulani and Chief Bode Adekanye...
The Senate said on Wednesday, that it would begin the process of enacting a law that would prescribe capital punishment for kidnappers. It also called on...
A mother, Mrs. Abigail Brown, has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for kidnapping her two children to get ransom from her husband. According...
