Tag: Kidnapping
Boko Haram Kidnaps 8 More Girls
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped eight more girls from Borno State, residents said on Tuesday, after the extremist group’s…
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Abducted Schoolgirls: Unthinkable cruelty and evil – Angelina Jolie
US actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday condemned as “unthinkable cruelty and evil” the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria…
3 Dutch Men Kidnapped In Niger Delta
Three Dutch nationals were kidnapped in Nigeria’s oil producing region while on their way to inspect a hospital built by…
Mahama Writes To Jonathan On Boko Haram
President John Dramani Mahama has called on member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to help…
Woman Lynched Over Attempt To Kidnap 3 Kids
Kazeem Ugbodaga & Yusuf Muhammed A suspected female kidnapper was Tuesday set ablaze by a mob on Ekoro Road at…
The Agony Of A Tumbling Nation
By Abimbola Emdin-Umeh One cannot but agree with renowned Pastor and activist, Tunde Bakare, when he declared at the wake…
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…
A Nation Adrift
International monitoring agencies occasionally rate how well or unhealthy a nation fares. Whether it is the Human Development Index, HDI,…
200 Abducted Schoolgirls Sighted
There are reports that 200 of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents have been sighted in southern Borno in…
Bi-Partisan Meeting On Security, Good Step But…
For about the first time, President Goodluck Jonathan, governors of the 36 states of the federation and all members of…
Missing Schoolgirls: APC Urges Jonathan To Cancel Rallies
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel the political rally being planned for him by…
Terrorists Want To Paralyse Government
Labaran Maku, the Minister of Information, fielded questions from journalists after a meeting of Federal Executive Council devoted to discussing…
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…
Nigeria’s Crisis Of Governance
By Bayo Onanuga We are all victims of Nigeria’s crisis of governance, and we all experience its symptoms: failed schools,…
Community leader in Pres. Jonathan’s town kidnapped
The police in the southern Nigerian state of Bayelsa on Monday confirmed that gunmen abducted, Chief Inengite, 65, in Otuoke,…
Manko Calls For Reform Of Criminal Justice System
Cyriacus Izuekwe The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko has said the effort of the police will be…