Category: Crime

Family of six among dead Troops foil kidnap attempt on 307 pupils in Kaduna Gunmen were on the prowl on Sunday, killing six in Osun State, one policeman and his friend in Bauchi State, as well as a traveller in Ekiti State. In Kaduna, troops foiled the attempt by suspected bandits to abduct more than […]

Police Inspector General Mohammed Adamu The Delta State Police command on Thursday said it rescued 16 persons, killed an armed robber and recovered an Ak-47 rifle with live ammunition in separate locations in the state. The acting Police public relations officer, DSP Bright Edafe, in a statement, said the police received a distress call on […]

The police Friday said it has begun searching for the whereabouts of the 317 Jangebe schools kidnapped from their school. The girls were kidnapped in the early hours of Friday from Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State. The Zamfara Police Commissioner Abutu Yaro said a joint search and rescue operation is already […]

Gunmen have abducted the monarch of Ikuru town in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Aaron Ikuru. Also, bandits on Sunday evening kidnapped a lecturer with the Linguistics and Communications Department ,University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Jones Ayauwo. The Guardian gathered that the traditional ruler was abducted at his residence at Ikuru town while […]

Govt won’t pay ransom for abductees –Lai Mohammed Negotiations with bandits unacceptable, say CAN, Onaiyekan Bandits insist on amnesty; attack Niger community again 5 drown as they flee fresh attacks in Niger Some of the bandits during the meeting with Sheikh Gumi on Thursday The Federal Government is not disposed to applying force to rescue […]

An aide of Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Comrade Okiemute Sowho has been shot dead by gunmen suspected to be assassins. He was reportedly killed Saturday evening along Crudas axis, by Akintola Road in Sapele, Sapele council area of the state. Sowho, also known as Daddy K, was a Special Assistant to Okowa on Youth Development. […]

People walk past a signpost of the Government Science College where gunmen kidnapped dozens of students and staffs, in Kagara, Rafi Local Government Niger State, Nigeria on February 18, 2021 (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) Four days after the attack and abduction of 42 students, staff and their relatives at Government Science College in […]

Teachers Hannatu Philip Lawal Abdullahi Dodo Fodio Non-teaching staff Mohammed Musa Faiza Mohammed family members Christiana Adama Faith Adama Maimuna Suleman] Nura Isah Ahmad Isah Khadizat Isah Mohammed Mohammed Aisha Isah Saratu Isah Pupils Jamilu Isah Shem Joshua Abbas Abdullahi Isah Abdullahi Ezekeil Danladi Haliru Shuibu Mamuda Suleman Danzakar Dauda Abdulsamad Sanusi Bashir Abbas. Suleman […]

A man has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for attempted murder after he chopped off his wife’s hands. In what was described as the most atrocious cases of domestic violence, the Kenyan, Stephen Ngila chopped off Jackline Mwende’s hands with a machete in Machakos County on July 25, 2016, because she could not […]