Browsing: Kidnapping

No less than 45 individuals were apprehended by the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, for purportedly participating in certain unlawful acts across the state. The suspects supposedly carried out offenses such as abduction, destruction, stealing, housebreaking, and cultism. Displaying the suspects at the corps headquarters in Akure, the […]

The Kaduna State Government has announced the release of the 287 schoolchildren kidnapped from Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State. This was contained in a statement signed by the state governor, Senator Uba Sani, on Sunday. The statement partly read, “I wish to announce that our Kuriga school children have been released. “Our special […]

FirstNews management has sent a letter to Gen. Chris Musa, the Chief of Defence Staff, asking to find out the location of its editor, Segun Olatunji. Olatunji, a former correspondent of The PUNCH in Kaduna State, was kidnapped in his home in Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of Lagos on March 16. He was reported to have […]

On Sunday night, terrorists abducted 87 individuals in a new assault on the Kajuru-Station community in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Harisu Dari, a member of the Kajuru-Station Youths, verified the event on Monday in Kaduna. Harisu mentioned that the terrorists also entered some stores and took food […]

Another try by terrorists in Kaduna State to kidnap some residents in the Kajuru Local Government Area of the state was stopped by personnel of the Nigerian Army deployed to the area. Recently, the state has become a hotspot for terrorists who have taken over 300 people as hostages. In the same Kajuru LG […]

Gunmen believed to be kidnappers abducted the chairman of the Edo State People Democratic Party, Tony Aziegbemi, at around 11 pm on Idaro Street, off Country Home Road, Benin City, less than a month after the party's governorship primary that produced Asue Ighodalo as the PDP candidate for the forthcoming September 21, 2024, state governorship election.

Soldiers suspected to be gunmen have allegedly taken the editor of FirstNews newspaper, Segun Olatunji, from his residence in Lagos State. Olatunji, who used to report for The PUNCH in Kaduna State, was taken on Friday by gunmen from his home in the Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of the state. In a statement on Saturday, […]

The People's Democratic Party is requesting the immediate and unconditional release of the leader of its Edo State Chapter, Dr. Tony Aziegbemi. According to reports, Aziegbemi was taken by a group of armed individuals near his home in Benin City, the capital of Edo State on Friday. He was reportedly followed by his abductors, who …