Bandits have freed the two abducted journalists and family members in Kaduna State, on Saturday, after spending seven days in captivity. Sunday PUNCH reports that two journalists – The Nation’s Abdulgafar Alabelewe and his Blueprint newspaper’s counterpart, AbdulRaheem Aodu – and their wives as well as children were released on Saturday night by some bandits. The bandits had in large …

Gunmen have abducted three staff members including the acting Rector of Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, Dr Emmanuel Barki. According to a report, the acting Rector with two other management staff of the institution and their driver were kidnapped on their way to Ugbokolo after an official assignment in Makurdi, the state capital on Thursday. It was gathered that the abductors …

Are-Ekiti Development Association (ÀŔEDAA) has charged the Ekiti State Police Command to do everything humanly possible to secure the release of Professor Femi Oloaofe, the Ekiti University Don who was recently kidnapped at his Ado Ekiti residence. Residents of Ekiti State Housing Estate, Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State Capital were on Tuesday greeted with the news of the kidnap of a …

After spending about 15 days in captivity, terrorists have released the kidnapped children of a Kaduna State judge, Janet Galadima. The Police are yet to react to the development. The Chairman of the Kaduna State branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Godwin Ochai said the children were released yesterday. He thanked God and everyone who stood by the family. …

Abducted victims recently freed from captivity have revealed that kidnappers used poisonous snakes to terrorise them. Some of them, who recounted their ordeals in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria, said that there were many snakes in the forests inhabited by the bandits. They said that the snakes often bite both the kidnappers and the victims. One of …

The Police on Saturday said its operatives from the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), raided kidnappers’ camp and neutralised many in the Mpape area of Abuja. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police Olumuyiwa Adejobi in Abuja said the camp was raided at about 2:40 am on 9 February following an intelligence report. He said the …

Fourteen Abuja-bound travellers who were kidnapped last Friday in Kogi State have regained their freedom. The victims who were travelling in two buses belonging to God Is Good Motors and ABC Transport were kidnapped at Inyenle, Ogugu in the Olamaboro Local Government Area of the state. It was reported that the driver of the GIG vehicle was rescued the same …

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayode Adegoke has urged the citizens to stop paying ransom to kidnappers. The commissioner stressed that the payment of ransom to kidnappers by families of those kidnapped should be stopped, noting that “it is not acceptable”. The payment of ransom, he said is making the nefarious business of kidnapping thrive. He said this while speaking …

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested one Bello Mohammed, 28, of Zamfara State, in Kaduna, who is a member of the bandit gang that kidnapped a lawyer’s family in Bwari and murdered Nabeeha, one of five daughters In a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi said: “The Divisional Police Officer, Tafa Division, acting on …

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has issued a stern warning to informants of kidnappers, bandits and criminals in the territory to repent or die in the hands of security operatives. Wike spoke yesterday at a town hall security meeting, held in Kuje town in the Kuje Area Council of the territory. The minister also urged residents …