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Men of the Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a man identified as Biobarakumo Gamade, for allegedly staging his abduction and demanding N10m from his brother.     The suspect was arrested alongside his accomplice, identified as Frank Thompson, on Tuesday, November 5th, after receiving N2m ransom. Parading the suspect at the state police command headquarters, on Wednesday, November 6, …

Bandits have k!lled 10 farmers including women from Wayam and Belu-Belu villages in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.   Residents said six of the victims were beheaded and bandits went away with their heads.    According to them, many people also sustained bullet wounds and were being treated at a clinic in Kagara, the Headquarters of Rafi LGA. …

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the parish priest of St. Theresa’s Catholic Parish in the Obollo community, Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Azubuike.    The Catholic priest was abducted in the Ayayi community within Obollo as he was returning to his parish from an assignment on Tuesday night, November 5, 2024.   …

The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man, Nasiru Sanusi, for the kidnap and m8rder of his uncle, a ward head in Kankara Local Government Area of the state.    The spokesman of the command, Abubakar Sadiq, paraded the suspect alongside other criminals at the police headquarters on Wednesday, October 30, 2024.   According to the PPRO, the suspect …

Bandits have abducted at least 16 people in a recent attack on Bena village and surrounding areas in the Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State.   The Secretary of the Security Committee in Wasagu, Lawali Umar, who confirmed the incident to Channels TV stated that the bandits ambushed victims working on their guinea corn farms and took them hostage.  …

The Edo State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the kidnapping of a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Thomas Oyode.   Fr. Oyode, the Rector of Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary of the Catholic Diocese of Auchi in Ivhianokpodi, Etsako East Local Government Area was abducted by gunmen during their evening prayers and Benediction on Sunday.    It was …

A US Air Force captain has been charged with making indecent images of a child after being cleared of kidnapping, drugging and then sexually assaulting a nine-year-old French girl.     Robert Prussak, 57, had been accused of abducting the schoolgirl outside of London’s famed Harrods department store on April 22.      The American was on Tuesday, October 29, …

Troops of the 6 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Jalingo in Taraba state have smashed a notorious kidnap syndicate and arrested three suspects.    The Acting Assistant Director, 6 Brigade Army Public Relations, Captain Olubodunde Oni, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, said the syndicate has been terrorising Jalingo and Lau Local Government Areas.    “In a …

Gunmen have k!lled a father of four, Okere Samuel and abducted a businessman identified as Sunny Onuenze at an estate in the Army Range area of Igbo-Etche in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.   It was gathered that the kidnapped victim deals in scrap metals in the building material market in Mile 3, Port Harcourt, while Samuel was …

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a senior lecturer in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Prof Oguejiofo Ujam.   Ujam was kidnapped along the Ugwuogo-Nike-Opi-Nsukka Road in Enugu State on Sunday morning, October 27, 2024.    Oguejiofor is a lecturer at the Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry and Dean of the School of General Studies of the …