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The Plateau State Police Command arrested a 17-year-old SS3 student, Elisha Anthony, who kidnapped and killed a 5-year-old boy after collecting a ransom of N400,000 from the victim’s parents in Bukuru community, Jos South Local Government Area of the state.    The State Commissioner of Police, CP Julius Alawari, disclosed …

Dr Comfort Adokwe, a Nasarawa State University lecturer who was abducted on Sunday, Oct. 22, has been released after her family paid an undisclosed sum.   Adokwe, a lecturer in the Faculty of Administration at the university and a Deputy Director, Gender Studies, of the school, was abducted on Sunday …

Bandits have killed a villager who delivered a ransom in Kidandan village, in the Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State.   The victim, Abdullahi Haruna, who was a member of the First Aid of Fitiyanul Islam, had volunteered to deliver the ransom to secure the release of a villager …

Abductors of a fish seller, Mrs. Rosemary Ofem, in Cross River State have demanded N5 million ransom for her release.    It was gathered that the victim was kidnapped on September 26, 2023, alongside others in a boat along Ikang, in Bakassi Local Local Council on her way to buy …

Gunmen have kidnapped a mother and her three children in the Ajelete community, Agunjin district, in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.   The chairman of the council area’s Transition Implementation Committee (TIC), Jide Asonibare, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, September 26, said the victims were abducted at …

A kidnapped staff of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Tom Tikyaa and 12 other passengers of Benue Links bus have regained their freedom.    The 13 victims including the driver of the bus were kidnapped last Sunday along Otukpo – Ugbokolo road in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State.    …

A 23-year-old suspected kidnapper simply identified as Sule, has said that he regrets joining a kidnap gang because the calf he bought with his share of ransom money died.    The suspect who was born and raised at Okada town in Edo State by a Fulani herder father was among …

  Bandits have killed the Director of Works and Housing of Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State, Mallam Yakubu Abdullahi Bala, after collecting N7m ransom from his family.  It was gathered that Bala was abducted from his home in Mariga town over 20 days ago.    The bandits also …

A young man from Akwa Ibom has celebrated his mother who regained freedom after she was abducted by kidnappers.    According to him, the kidnappers demanded N1m ransom from his father but he told them that his wife would return home by 6 p.m.    When his mother eventually returned …

The Jigawa State Police Command has arrested four suspected kidnappers and rescued two victims in Jahun and Birnin Kudu Local Government Areas of the state.    Spokesperson of the command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, August 26, 2023, said four members of a …