Tag: Kidnapping
Nigerian Rebasing And The Making Of A Phantom Economy
By Peter Claver Oparah And so storm tossed and weather beaten Nigerians woke up on Saturday, 5 April to hear…
15 Out Of 100 Kidnapped Girls Escape
Reports say 15 out the 100 schoolgirls kidnapped Monday evening by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists from a school in…
Police, SSS, Army In Joint Patrol In Rivers State
A special patrol team, comprising the Police, Army, Navy, Air force and the Department of State Security, has been set-up…
Kogi Speaker’s Children Kidnapped
Suspected kidnappers abducted two of the children of the Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Alhaji Momoh-Jimoh Lawal. The…
Boko Haram Abducts School Girls In Borno
Heavily armed Islamist gunmen kidnapped a group of girls from a secondary school in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state and torched…
Delusion Of Grandeur
By Bayo Onanuga Nigeria recently announced itself on the world stage as Africa’s biggest economy, eclipsing South Africa, which has…
Afghan deputy minister kidnapped
KABUL (AFP) – A senior Afghan government official was kidnapped along with his driver on his way to work in…
Jungle Justice: How Lagos Mob Lynched Landlord’s Son
Simon Ateba & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni A man, accused of being a thief and a child kidnapper, who was lynched in…
Child Kidnapper Clubbed To Death
Simon Ateba & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni A man, accused of trying to kidnap a child in Mile 12 Area of Ketu…
Woman Caught Stealing Baby Through Window
Nkem Taiye-Ulebor & Yusuf Muhammed For allegedly trying to steal a year old girl from her parents’ house early this…
Kidnapping Has Reduced In Rivers State, Says Police Boss
The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr Tunde Ogunshakin, on Wednesday said that the spate of kidnapping in the…
Edwin Clark’s son kidnapped
Gunmen have abducted Mr. Ebike Clark, son of Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark. He was kidnapped at Clark’s country home,…
Rape Is Major Crime In Kano
Alhaji Adenrele Tasheed Shinaba, Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, has had varied experience as Commissioner of Police in charge…
One Week, One Tragedy
By Chido Onumah It’s almost a week since the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) job recruitment tragedy that claimed the lives…
Kidnapped President Jonathan’s Uncle Rescued
President Goodluck Jonathan’s uncle, Chief Nengite Nitabai, 70, kidnapped on 23 February by gunmen has been rescued by the police…