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Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 44 women and children during a raid on terrorists’ enclaves in Timbuktu Triangle cutting across Borno and Yobe States.     The Army in a statement on Monday, April 22, 2024, said troops also recovered valuable assets, including MOWAG Armoured Personnel Carrier, a …

The state Governor, Uba Sani, announced their release in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, March 24, 2024. Governor Sani, however, didn’t provide details of their release but saluted the courage of men of the Nigerian Army and the contributions of President Bola Tinubu, the National Security Adviser, Mallam …

The 15 students abducted at the Qur’anic school in Sokoto State have regained their freedom.    The students were kidnapped at Gidan Bakuso village in Gada Local Government Area on March 9, 2024.    The spokesperson of the state police command, Ahmed Rufai, who confirmed the development on Friday, March …

‘Nine’ of the remaining abducted female students of the Federal University in Gusau, Zamfara State have regained their freedom.   Recall that on September 22, 2023, suspected terrorists raided the off-campus hostels at Sabon Gidan Community, near the Federal University, Gusau, abducting a total of twenty-four female students.   Three …

The 13 villagers who were kidnapped 62 days ago from their residences at Unguwar Liman, Gwada ward of Igabi LGA of Kaduna State have regained their freedom.   The captives were part of the 30 abducted in the community in December 2023.   According to the Daily Trust, the kidnappers …

Fourteen residents who were abducted in Kubuwo and neighbouring Kaguni communities in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State have regained freedom after 67 days in captivity.    Recall that the victims were abducted by bandits who invaded the two communities and whisked away the victims amid sporadic shooting in …

Mia Schem had been held hostage in Gaza for three days when, she said, she underwent surgery for a gunshot wound she sustained in Hamas’s attack on Israel. For days afterward — forced to share a room with her captor — she received no painkillers and had to replace her …

The Kaduna State Police Command has rescued a kidnap victim after six months in captivity.    Spokesperson of the command, ASP Mansir Hassan, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, December 19, 2023.   “On Monday at about 1600hours, our anticrime patrol mission in the Madachi-Galadimawa …

Prof Patrick Egaga of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has been released by his abductors after 26 days in captivity.   Egaga, who is UNICAL’s Director of Servicom was kidnapped in the institution’s staff quarters on November 12, 2023.   His abductors demanded a ransom of N50 million.    Sources …

  13 Israeli hostages have finally been released after 48 days in captivity in Gaza along with a group of Thai and Filipino nationals as part of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas that went into effect today, November 24.     Thirteen Israeli women and children and 11 Thai and Filipino hostages …