Tag: abduction
Missing Chibok Girls 43 Days After
It’s heart rendering that the teenage girls abducted from Government, Chibok, Borno State, have been away for this long, their…
Anti-Boko Haram Protest In Ekiti
Simon Ateba, Nkrumah Bankong-Obi & Gbenro Adesina/Ado-Ekiti BringBackOurGirls protests spread to Nigeria’s southwestern State of Ekiti on Tuesday with hundreds…
How Boko Haram Abducted Girls
A Ghanaian Islamic spiritualist, Shamuna Ustaz Jibirl, has posted a chilling picture of the over 200 abducted Nigerians girls in…
Need For Regional Cooperation To Defeat Insurgents
In a much publicised move, Nigeria has accepted assistance from the United States, Britain, France, China and Israel in a…
Gov Shettima Orders Mass Production Of Abducted Girls Video
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno has ordered mass production of video clip showing some of the 234 girls abducted on…
Chibok Girls: Hundreds Of Women Protest In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Hundreds of women and men staged a protest in Lagos State, western Nigeria, Monday, demanding the release of…
Nigerian Army Ignored Warnings About School Raid, Says AI
Nigeria’s military had advance warning of the attack on a school at which some 270 girls were kidnapped but failed…
Chibok Girls: First Lady’s Intervention Distracting, Says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried the melodramatic intervention of First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan in the abduction of…
Egypt’s Top Sunni Muslim Group Demands Release Of Schoolgirls
Egypt’s prestigious Islamic institute Al-Azhar has joined millions worldwide seeking the release of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram. Al-Azhar urged…
Bomb Blast, Abducted Girls And Insecurity In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare The spate of insecurity in the country is becoming very alarming. While we are yet to come…
200 Abducted Schoolgirls Sighted
There are reports that 200 of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents have been sighted in southern Borno in…
Abducted Ebikeme Clark freed
The abducted son of Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark who was kidnapped last Wednesday has been released by his captors. Delta…
Abductors of Rivers PDP chieftain want N30m
Kidnappers of a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers state, Mr. Dicken Worlu, are demanding N30 million as…
Boko Haram: The Cameroon Connection
It has now dawned on President Paul Biya of the Republic of Cameroon and his government that the Boko Haram…
Boko Haram gunmen abduct 20 maidens in fresh raid
Gunmen from Islamist sect Boko Haram are certainly not waiting for the reward of martyrdom in heaven: the reward of…
Police: Primate Akinola rescued
Most Rev. Peter Akinola, retired primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, kidnapped Tuesday by an armed gang, has been…
Yinka Obaleye, abducted industrialist freed
Jamiu Yisa After about two weeks in the den of her abductors, an Ilesa-based frontline industrialist, Dr. (Mrs) Olayinka Obaleye…
Obaleye, businesswoman abducted in front of factory
A renowned businesswoman, Mrs Olayinka Obaleye, the Managing Director of Yinka Oba Foam in Ilo, State of Osun, in western…
Gunmen abduct commissioner’s father
Gunmen have abducted a 78-year-old community leader, Chief Nelson Tempurah, the father of the Commissioner for Tourism Development in Bayelsa,…
Man Charged With Abducting Girl, 20, For 4 Months
The Nigerian police in the northern state of Katsina on Thursday arraigned a 35-year-old man, Abba Gafai, in a Katsina…
5 Men Arrested Over 22 Months Abduction
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa has arrested five suspects who allegedly abducted two girls since…
How Ozekhome’s Kidnapper Was Arrested In P/H
Contrary to reports that kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Oburuvbe who allegedly masterminded the abduction of human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome,…
Edo Monarch Kidnapped
The traditional ruler of Udo Community and an in-law to the Benin Monarch, HRH Patrick Igbinidu, has been reportedly abducted…
Breaking news: Benin High Chief abducted
Hours after armed abductors freed prominent Nigerian lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, another prominent Benin high chief has been kidnapped. He is…
Wife pleads for Anglican Archbishop’s release
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Mrs Beatrice Kattey, the wife of the kidnapped Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger Delta,…
Kidnapped Bishop Kattey: Clergy Council vows not to pay ransom
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three days after the abduction of ArchBishop of the Niger Delta Province, and Bishop of Niger Delta…
Police Rescue 2 Chinese Nationals
Two Chinese nationals who were abducted on Monday near the Military Cantonment in Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun, have…
Kidnapped MD, Son Freed
The Managing Director of Smartpoly Products Ltd and Tokslordmart Ltd, Martins Adams, who was abducted along with his seven-year old…
Family of abducted ex-oil minister begs for his release
The Family of Dr Shettima Ali Monguno, the elder statesman kidnapped in Maiduguri on Friday, has appealed to his abductors…
12 bomb disposal experts abducted in Senegal
Suspected separatist rebels have abducted 12 bomb disposal experts in southern Senegal, a security source said Saturday. The source said…