Tag: Kidnapping
Army Arrests Suspected Kidnapper
The Quick Response Group (QRG), under 9 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has arrested a 37-year old man who…
Kidnappers Free Woman Leader
Kidnappers have freed Abia State Women leader in Answarudeen area of Badagry, Lagos State, southwest Nigerian, after collecting some ransom.…
Police: Kidnapped woman a Nigerian not American
Alhaji Usman Abubakar, the Commissioner of Police in the eastern Nigerian state of Abia, has refuted reports that an American…
Briton freed, 3 Lebanese kidnapped
A Briton abducted last week in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos has been released in an incident believed to be a…
French Hostages: Boko Haram Warns Against Use Of Force
A Nigerian Islamist group warned against the use of force to free a French man and six members of his…
ACN National vice chairman kidnapped
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has announced the kidnap of its Vice Chairman (Southeast), Dr. Chudi Nwike,…
We Are Kept In Desert, Says Head Of Kidnapped French Family
Patriarch of the French family kidnapped in Cameroon has spoken, according to a report by the news agency, AFP. In…
Police Arrest Oba In Court
There was a mild drama on Tuesday at Ota High Court, Ota, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria when the police stormed…
Boko Haram Beheads Informant
A man accused of being an informant has been beheaded by Islamist group Boko Haram. The incident was recorded in…
Gunmen ambush taxi, abduct 5 passengers
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A new dimension has been introduced into the flourishing business of kidnapping in Nigeria as five out of…
Kidnapping: France warns citizens to be cautious in Benin
Paris has warned visitors to Benin Republic to be on high alert for possible revenge kidnappings or attacks over France’s…
French family kidnapped unveiled as search intensifies
A kidnapped French family of seven has likely been separated into two groups by their abductors, France said Thursday, as…
Nigeria Police Rescue Kidnapped Pastor
Mr Emmanuel Agbesi, the kidnapped Pastor of the South-East Regional Headquarters of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries at…
BOTCHED KIDNAP: Policeman Killed, Lebanese Escapes
Unidentified gunmen yesterday at about 10 p.m. killed a police corporal simply identified as Levi at Festac town, Lagos state,…
5 kidnapped Indian sailors freed in Nigeria
The five Indian crew members of an oil tanker who were kidnapped last month after heavily armed pirates stormed their…
Kidnappers On The Prowl All Over
By Isaac Asabor There is no denying the fact that many families have experienced the psychological fear and traumatic pain…
Family of kidnapped Nigerian lawmaker prays
The family of Alhaji Jalo Ganga, the Gombe lawmaker who was kidnapped on Sunday in Gombe, has resorted to praying…
Kidnapping In Nigeria: The Police Connection
As the spate of kidnapping continues to rise in the country, EROMOSELE EBHOMELE takes a look at the involvement of…
Kidnappers Scare Igbo From Xmas Trip
The fear of kidnappers is the beginning of wisdom for many Igbo residents in Lagos as many have refused to…
Police: Nkiru’s family paid N8m ransom to abductors
The Commissioner of Police in Nigeria’s Imo state, Mr Adisa Bolanta, has confirmed that the family of Nkiruka Sylvanus, the…
Gunmen Kidnap French National
A group of 30 gunmen, who stormed a residence in northern Nigeria where expatriate workers were staying, kidnapped a French…
Nkiru: Family Seeks Reduction Of N100m Ransome
Representatives of the family of Nkiru Sylvanus are currently negotiating with the abductors of the actress, and she will be…
Pirates kidnap 5 Indians off Nigerian coastline
Well armed pirates who stormed and ransacked an oil tanker off Nigeria have kidnapped five Indian crew members, said a…
Nkiru: Actors Hold Rally
Following the kidnap of actress Nkiru Sylvanus in Owerri on Saturday night, members of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria, AGN,…
Reports: Nkiru, Nollywood star kidnapped
Nigerian Nollywood actress, Nkiru Sylvanus, has been kidnapped. The fair-skinned actress, also working as Governor Rochas Okorocha’s special assistant was…
Why Kidnapping thrives in Nigeria
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) for Lagos and Ogun, Mr Mamman Tsafe, has attributed the high rate of kidnapping…
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s mother kidnapped
Emerging reports said Professor Kamene Okonjo, the mother of Nigeria’s finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been kidnapped by armed men.…
Wife of Ogun state lawmaker kidnapped with friend
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Folasade, wife of the lawmaker representing Ijebu North-East State Constituency in Ogun state southwest, Nigeria, Samson Onademuren…
Kidnapping: Hotelier Quits Ijebu Ode
A popular hotelier in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Segun Ayobolu, has closed down all his business outfits in the…
AFP: 6 Russians kidnapped off Nigeria freed
Six Russians and an Estonian kidnapped from a ship off Nigeria on October 15 have been released, French oil industry…