Gunmen have kidnapped the Federal Commissioner of the National Population Commission for Bayelsa State, Gloria Izonfuo. Izonfuo was reported to have been kidnapped at Ogbakiri junction on the East-West road, Rivers State. Spokesperson of the Rivers State Police Command, Deputy Superintendent Grace Iringe-Koko said that Izonfuo was kidnapped on Sunday evening alongside her maid and driver. She was said to …

The police in Katsina State have arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly kidnapping and murdering his victim. In a statement by the Public Relations Officer at the Katsina police command, Chief Superintendent Gambo Isah said that “on 12/4/2023, at about 1500hrs, the command succeeded in arresting one Abubakar Abdulaziz, 30-year-old, of Sabuwar Santa, Musawa Local Government Area Katsina State, a …

No fewer than 10 students have been kidnapped by bandits in the Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State. In a statement on Monday, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan said that the students were from the Government Secondary School, Awon (day secondary school). The commissioner also explained that the exact location of the …

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected kidnappers of couple in Bisodun village in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. In a statement on Wednesday, police spokesperson in the state, Superintendent Abimbola Oyeyemi said that the suspected kidnappers had reportedly invaded the community on Tuesday and abducted a couple, Mr and Mrs Ojo. Oyeyemi …

Abductors of six Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials, who participated in the governorship and state assembly elections in Kogi State, have demanded ₦50 million for their release. Addressing a press conference on Monday on behalf of the families of the kidnapped victims in Lokoja, an Assistant Presiding Officer II in the 18th March Kogi State House of Assembly election, …

A 20-year-old, Thomas Ya’u has been arrested by the Zamfara State Police Command for allegedly conniving with five others to abduct his mother and three others, and collecting N30 million as ransom. The command’s spokesman, Superintendent Mohammed Shehu told reporters in Gusau, the state capital, on Friday that the suspected boy informed the police that N10 million was paid by each …

Following last weekend’s breakthrough, security forces have continued with clearance operations in identified bandit and terrorist enclaves around Kaduna State. A statement by the state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan stated that recent operational feedback to the state government indicated that troops of Operation Forest Sanity carried out a raid and rescue operations in the early …

About N653.7 million was said to have been paid as ransom for the release of kidnap victims in Nigeria between July 2021 and June 2022, according to a report by a Lagos-based security and political risk research firm. The report, ‘The Economics of Nigeria’s Kidnap Industry”, was conducted by SBM Intelligence and published in August. It detailed Nigeria’s security issues, …