According to reports, gunmen posing as kidnappers broke into the Gandu village area of the Federal University of Lafia in the Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, where they shot and abducted a 300-level sociology department student and abducted a businessman. Around 8.30pm, the gunmen, armed with sophisticated weapons, invaded the village and began…
Slain Edo Catholic Priest: Community Youths Arrest Member of Kidnap Gang
One of the kidnappers who abducted and killed Rev. Fr. Christopher Odia, Parish Priest of St. Michael Catholic Church, Ikhabigbo, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State on Sunday, has been apprehended, just as the mass servant earlier reported to have died from gunshot wounds has reportedly survived. The lucky mass servant who was…
Edo Police Kill Six Suspected Kidnappers, Rescue Five Victims
Six suspected kidnappers on Wednesday met their waterloo as they were gunned down by men of the Edo State police command along the Benin-Lagos Expressway. Five kidnap victims were rescued following a gun duel with the outlaws in the Ahor area of the Benin by-pass. The lucky victims, who were travelling in a commercial bus…
The Chief of Defence Staff Seeks Holistic Solution to Insecurity in Nigeria
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE ROUNDTABLE: Insecurity is Nigeria’s most difficult challenge – Shettima The dialogue to find peace and security in Nigeria continued on February 23, at the Musa Yar’adua Cenre, Abuja, during the 21st Century Chronicle Roundtable titled “Going for broke: Fighting insecurity in Nigeria.” General Lucky Irabor, chief of Defence Staff, and keynote speaker,…
Three Suspected Kidnappers Terrorising Benin- Auchi Road Killed in Gun Battle with Security Operatives
Security operatives comprising the police, army, and vigilante men on Wednesday engaged some dare-devil kidnappers in a gun duel along the notorious Benin- Auchi axis of Edo State, killing three of them. The shoot-out occurred at Okwo, in Ehor, before the university town of Ekpoma in Uhunmwode local government area of the state. According to…
How Generosity Saved Two Cement Company Officers From Kidnap
Two suspects who plotted the kidnap of their bosses in a cement company in Okpella, Edo State, are now in police net and would soon be arraigned. The suspects, Obi Bright, and Favour Ede, according to sources in Edo State Police Command, allegedly connived with a gang of kidnappers in Kogi State to abduct for…
Sowore: How I Escaped from Kidnappers’ Den – Rescued Rev. Sister
Contrary to the claim by the Edo State Police Command that it rescued one of the kidnap victims out of the five abducted around Okada on Saturday where the younger brother of Omoyele Sowore, Olajide was killed, the victim, Emmanuella Anyanwu, said to be a Catholic reverend sister, on Monday told newsmen that she indeed…
Olajide Sowore Not Target of Kidnappers, Was Victim of Circumstance – Edo Police
The Edo State Police Command on Sunday explained that Felix Olajide Sowore, younger brother of the Sahara Reporters publisher, and convener of #Revolution Now, Omoyele Sowore, who was killed in the early hours of Saturday at the Okada axis of Edo State by some rampaging kidnappers, was just a victim of circumstance. At a press…
Obaseki Commends Edo Vigilante for Gallantry in Dislodging Kidnappers, Donates 15 Operational Vehicles
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has commended members of Edo State Community Vigilante Security Network for their bravery in confronting kidnappers in the Ahor axis of Aduwawa By-pass along Benin-Auchi Expressway. The Security Network, in collaboration with the Edo State Police Command and other security agencies had on Monday rescued seven kidnap victims and…
Double ‘Wahala For Dead Body as Brother of Deceased is Abducted and Hearse Conveying Corpse Runs into Ditch in Edo
[responsivevoice] …Kidnappers Demand N5m Ransom. It was a tragic and abrupt end of the homeward journey of a deceased Enugu indigene whose remains was being conveyed to his home town from Lagos for burial as the hearse was attacked in Benin City, Edo State, and his younger brother accompanying the corpse kidnapped. The journey had…
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