Tag: Kidnappers

  • Police rescue woman, daughter from kidnappers – Police

    The police have rescued a woman, Hauwa Umaru and her daughter from their captors. Our correspondent reports that heavily armed bandits on Sunday morning attacked a Divisional Police Station in Adamawa at 5 a.m. and also kidnapped the woman and her daughter from a nearby house. This is contained in a statement issued by DSP…

  • Miyetti Allah chairman dies in the hands of kidnappers — official

    Miyetti Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has announced the death of Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi, also known as Danbardi, the association’s Chairman in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The association announced this in a statement by its National Secretary, Othman Ngelzarma, and made available to our correspondent on Saturday, in Abuja, saying that…

  • Bayelsa Police repel attack by gunmen, launch manhunt for kidnappers

    Operatives of a Joint Task Force codename Operation Doo Akpor, repelled an attack by gunmen at a nipping point at Okarki Junction, Yenagoa. This is containing in a statement issued on Monday by the Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa Police Command, SP Asinmi Butwait. “On Sept. 5, Operatives of Operation Doo Akpor, at Okarki Junction…

  • Police rescue 4 victims from kidnappers in Kaduna

    Police rescue 4 victims from kidnappers in Kaduna

     Police Command in Kaduna State said on Monaday that its operatives had rescued four persons kidnapped on a highway in Jema’a Local Government Area of the state. The Public Relations Officer of the command, ASP Mohammed Jalige,  the victims were rescued on Sunday at about 7pm, following the receipt of credible information on the incident. “The…

  • Kidnappers release 2 abducted Kubwa residents after N2m ransom

    Kidnappers release 2 abducted Kubwa residents after N2m ransom

    The two residents of Byazhin area in Kubwa , a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), kidnapped by gunmen have regained their freedom after  allegedly paying N2 million. Our correspondent had, on Wednesday, reported that the two men; Mr Ayodele Somorin and Mr Oladimeji Josiah, a carpenter, were kidnapped in their homes on May 21. …

  • Nigeria: Kidnappers kill two more captive students

    Nigeria: Kidnappers kill two more captive students

    Two more students were killed after being kidnapped with others last week by gunmen in northwest Nigeria, local authorities said Monday, bringing the death toll from the attack to six. The killings in Kaduna state by criminals known locally as “bandits” mark an escalation in the mass kidnappings of students that plague northwest and central…

  • Police kill 2 suspected kidnappers in Plateau

    Police kill 2 suspected kidnappers in Plateau

    The Police Command in Plateau have killed two suspected kidnappers in Gindiri, Mangu Local Government Area of the state.ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the command, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Jos. According to him, the criminals were killed after a gun battle with the police on Monday…

  • Police rescues 52-year-old man from suspected kidnappers in Kebbi

    Police rescues 52-year-old man from suspected kidnappers in Kebbi

    The Police Command in Kebbi has rescued a 52-year-old man from suspected kidnappers in Jega Local Government area of the state.The command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), DSP, Nafi’u Abubakar, stated this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday.Abubakar said that on Dec. 2, around 3 am., a gang of…

  • Army neutralises 17 bandits, rescued 2 kidnapped girls in Katsina

    Troop of the Nigeria Army of the Operation Sahel Sanity Theatre have neutralised 17 bandits and rescued two teenage girls kidnapped in separate operations in Katsina State. According to a statement signed by Brig- Gen., Bernard Onyeuko, Acting Director of Defence Media Operation, Defence Headquarter Abuja, on Sunday, one soldier died in the battle with…