By AFP News Agency There has been another kidnapping incident in Oyo State, as gunmen abducted the younger sister of former Minister of Power and 2027 All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in the state, Bayo Adelabu, along with her twin children. The incident occurred on Wednesday in theContinue Reading
The killing of Malam Bashar Sani, a senior administrator at the College of Education, Maru, by suspected bandits has once again exposed the grim reality of insecurity in parts of Northern Nigeria, where families that pay huge ransoms to rescue loved ones often remain trapped in a viciousContinue Reading
Residents of Peze and Kungabokun communities at Byazhin-Across area of Kubwa, a satellite town in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Teritory (FCT), on Sunday, narrated the ordeal experienced as the rate of kidnapping surges in the evironment. Suspected armed terrorits, in their numbers, had continued to attackContinue Reading
By Christian Ogbonna Abakaliki: The Police Command in Ebonyi has confirmed the death of the kidnapped former Ebonyi Deputy Governor, Mr Kelechi Igwe’s father, Chief Francis Igwe at his abductors den. This is contained in a statement issued to journalists in Abakaliki on Friday by the Command’s PublicContinue Reading
By Muftau Ogunyemi Akure: The Police Command in Ondo State has confirmed the abduction of a couple by gunmen on Friday evening in Ilu-Abo Community in Akure North Local Government Area of the state. DSP Abayomi Jimoh, the command’s Spokesperson, who confirmed the incident in a statementContinue Reading
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted nine family members in Edo State. DAILY POST reports that the victims include five school children, a nursing mother and her baby, and two others. The father of the victims, who identified himself as Mr Festus Bamidele, said they were abducted onContinue Reading
Unknown gunmen on Saturday invaded Aqua Triton Company in Ogunmakin, near Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, abducting an expatriate and killing a police officer attached to him. Spokesman of the Oyo State Police Command and a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Ayanlade Olayinka, confirmed this. In a statementContinue Reading
Seventeen additional worshippers abducted from the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Aiyetoro Kiri Bunu, Kogi State, have regained their freedom following sustained negotiations with their captors, deepening hopes for the release of the remaining victims. Their release was secured through the joint efforts of affected families and theContinue Reading
The Chigbo family has announced the death of Princess Nwamaka Mediatrix Chigbo, an Abuja-based lawyer at the hands of still-to-be-identified kidnappers in the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory on Monday, 5th January 2026. Barrister Nwamaka was the elder sister of Dr Maureen Chigbo, Editor/Publisher of Nigeria’s pioneer online Realnews Magazine. According to aContinue Reading
