kidnappers
3 Apr
Operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, have arrested 10 suspected kidnappers who abducted a corps member, Navy officer and nine students.
28 Mar
Two weeks ago, Thursday, March 14, 2024, soldiers of the 181 Amphibious Battalion of Nigerian Army went on patrol in Okuama community of Delta State, where the people had been pitched in a communal conflict with their Okoloba neighbours.
27 Mar
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the security personnel in the country to treat kidnappers as terrorists. Tinubu said this on Tuesday during a Ramadan dinner attended by members of the Federal judiciary. On Thursday, 7 March, 137 schoolchildren were kidnapped from LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School, Kuriga, in Kaduna. The schoolchildren were…
26 Feb
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, asked the National Assembly to amend the counter-terrorism legislation to prescribe death by hanging for kidnappers and terrorists.
15 Feb
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ezenwo Wike, yesterday, placed a N20 million bounty on three suspected kidnappers, who are at large.
15 Feb
Arguably, the height of insecurity in Nigeria begs for high level solutions. Meanwhile, this insecurity, according to some analysts, can be traced to recent increase in proliferation of arms in the country
12 Feb
The National Assembly has disclosed that it will consider a legal framework for the creation of state police and for the gathering of local intelligence about the activities of bandits, kidnappers and terrorists.
9 Feb
Disturbed by the resurgence of kidnapping activities, the Federal Government, yesterday, deployed a detachment of military personnel to Ekiti State to checkmate the activities of kidnappers, bandits and other criminals.
30 Jan
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Monday evening killed two traditional rulers in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State.
19 Jan
It has been reported that top on the legislative thinking of the House of Representatives when it reconvenes on 30 January is the issue of security and the concomitant imperative of the establishment of state police.
19 Jan
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, convicted and sentenced three men to death by hanging for kidnapping and murder.
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