After four days in captivity, wife of Terwase Orbunde, former Chief of Staff to the Governor of Benue State, Mrs Abigail Orbunde and her house help, Miss Patience Ogute, have regained freedom from their abductors.

State police,within the purview of Nigeria’s United States-modelled federal and presidential system of government, means a policing model administered at a devolved or sub-national level.

Countries around the world are grappling with internal security issues. Russia, despite all assurances of a well-policed borders and repeated threat to deploy nuclear arms, was caught napping

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, yesterday, expressed worry over the increase in the spate of insecurity in the state, particularly kidnapping.

Police in Bauchi State have arrested three suspects for alleged criminal conspiracy, threat to life, criminal intimidation and attempted kidnapping.

I have received a mail in which the writer has expressed curiousity about events of past centuries and those of the present time. He contends that there have always been disasters.

The Federal Government will soon fish out and prosecute kidnappers of schoolchildren, information minister Mohammed Idris has said.

Justice Sika Aprioku of Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, yesterday, convicted and sentenced five people to death by hanging or injecting them with lethal substances until they are confirmed dead for murder and kidnapping.

Apparently worried by the rising spate of kidnapping in the country, the Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairmen, yesterday, urged President Bola Tinubu not to hesitate to remove any head of the security agencies that is found wanting in his or her responsibilities.

Bandits are allegedly demanding N40 trillion in ransom before the 16 people kidnapped from the Gonin Gora area of Kaduna can be released. According to a community leader, John Yusuf, the bandits contacted the victim's family and also demanded 11 Hilux vans and 150 motorcycles. On February 28, 2024, bandits killed two residents of Anguwan…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has condemned the incidents of abduction involving very vulnerable victims, internally-displaced persons in Borno State and students in Kaduna State. Tinubu has also issued a directive to security and intelligence agencies to swing into action immediately so as to rescue the captives. The President in a statement signed by spokesperson, Ajuri…

The Police Command in Kano State has arrested 132 suspects for alleged kidnapping, armed robbery and illicit drug dealing in two months in different parts of the state.