There is growing concern among local authorities and analysts of potential alliances between the bandits and other armed groups like Boko Haram. Gunmen who attacked a train in northwest Nigeria and killed at least eight people have released a video of…
The woman leader of the Koro ward of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, Mrs Olomi Sunday, was killed during a rescue effort by the local vigilante. Late Olomi was among…
The Emir of Bungudu, Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Attahiru, has recounted his experience in kidnappers’ den. The monarch who regained freedom on Saturday, October 16, 2021, after 32 days of captivity, was kidnapped by bandits alongside his police orderly along the Kaduna-Abuja highway while they…
The police in Oyo state have arrested the suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate terrorizing commuters along the Lagos/ Ibadan expressway. Parading the suspects before newsmen on Thursday, February 3, the state Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, gave the names of the suspected…
Armed bandits stormed Gidan-Kwano, the community hosting the main campus of the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State and kidnapped two people. It was gathered that the gunmen invaded the community on motorcycles at about 1:00 am on…
Four members of staff of the University of Abuja and their children are said to have been abducted after suspected bandits attacked the University’s staff quarters in the early hours of Tuesday, November 2. The University broke the news on…
Telecommunications companies have been directed by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to shut down their services in Zamfara, over lingering insecurity in the state. Executive Vice-Chairman of the NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta gave the directive in a leaked memo…
Bandits have returned five among the 73 kidnapped students of Government Day Secondary School Kaya in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A former councilor of Kaya ward, Yahaya Kaya, who confirmed the release of the five students…
Suspected bandits have invaded the Afaka barracks of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, killing a naval officer. According to Daily Trust, the bandits were also said to have kidnapped two majors during the attack. It was gathered that…
The abductors of the students and staff of the College of Agriculture and Animal Science, Bakura in Zamfara State have demanded N350 million as ransom for their release. The provost of the college, Habibu Mainasara, disclosed this in an interview…
Eleven hostages have escaped from bandits’ camps at the outskirts of Sabon Birni town in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, August…
The Chief Imam of Atiba, Ijebu Ode, Alhaji Musafau Bakare, who was reportedly kidnapped by unknown persons, has been found dead. Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of this report, but it was gathered that the deceased…
Two children and seven adults were reportedly abducted at Anguwar Kwankwashe in Suleja, Niger state. Daily Trust reported that the kidnappers in large number invaded some houses and a hotel around 1:35 am on Tuesday August 3. Two of the kidnap…
Soldiers were filmed accompanying children to school in North-Eastern Nigeria. School children have become targets of bandits, with many kids still in the custody of kidnappers after they were taken from their schools. With the increase in abduction of students, some states…
28 abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna have been released by bandits after spending 20 days in captivity. Joseph Hayab, Kaduna state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN) confirmed the release of 28 students. Recall that a total…
The government has been criticised for its failure to tackle the country’s kidnapping crisis Kidnappers in Nigeria have seized a man who was sent to deliver a ransom payment to secure the release of dozens of abducted school children.…
Some kidnap victims have explained how the police have been unable to track bandits even with the SIM-NIN linkage. Residents of Katsina, Zamfara and Kaduna states who spoke to Punch, said though they made the bandits’ telephone numbers available…
The armed bandits on June 10 stormed the school in the night and abducted staff and students of the school. After 28 days of being held captive, they all regained their freedom. In a chat with The Nation, one…
Stand-up comedian, I Go Dye has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to employ same method they used in raiding Yoruba secessionist, Sunday Igboho’s house on bandits and kidnappers of school children in the Northern region of…
The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has condoled the families of two Nigerian Army and Navy personnel who paid the supreme price while defending students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna. The two personnel, Private Salisu…