Tag: ABDUCTION

Abducted Female Uni Students: Sir Ahmadu Bello Foundation calls for urgent rescue

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Federal University, Gusau Zamfara State

The Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation has strongly condemned the recent abduction of over 40 female students from the Federal University Gusau. This is contained in a statement by Engr. Abubakar Gambo Umar, Director General of the foundation, on Monday in Kaduna. The statement said the foundation considers the act to be ignoble, dastardly, and a gross violation of the sanctity of human life and the pursuit of education. It expressed its deepest sympathies and solidarity with the affected students, their families, and the entire university community during this challenging…

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Gunmen abduct 11 passengers after attack on another Benue Links vehicle

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Gunmen on Sunday night attacked a Benue Links passenger bus and abducted at least 11 persons, multiple sources said on Monday. The driver of the vehicle and four passengers were however said to have escaped after the attack which occurred at about 10pm along Ogbokolo-Otukpa road in Okpokpwu Local Government Area of Benue. A competent source said that the kidnappers had initially demanded for N60 million, but came down to N16 million as ransom to release the passengers. A similar incident involving two buses of the transport company occurred on…

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Police Confirmrs 1 killed, 2 Community Leaders Abducted in Bauchi

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Police Command in Bauch State has confirmed that gunmen killed one person and abducted three others, including two community leaders in the Ningi Local Government Area of the state.  The Spokesman of the command, SP. Ahmed Wakil, confirmed the development in an interviewon Monday in Bauchi. He said that the gunmen attacked a community known as Balma, killing one person and abducting three others, including two community leaders late on Saturday. Wakil said the two community leaders were a village head in Balma community and a ward head in…

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Imo: ‘Efforts still ongoing to rescue abducted female officer’ – Army PRO 

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Army says efforts are still on-going to rescue the newly-commissioned female officer, Lt. PP Johnson, abducted in Imo allegedly by the banned Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, (IPOB). Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, who stated this yesterday in Abuja, said that the female officer was abducted on Dec. 26 while visiting her grandmother in Aku-Okigwe in Imo. That was shortly after the completion of her cadet training and subsequent commissioning as a lieutenant into the Nigerian Army, he added. Nwachukwu stated that the video footage of her…

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Kaduna-Abuja Highway: Terrorists open fire on vehicle, abduct pregnant woman, teenage daughter

Aminu Imam

A pregnant woman and her teenage daughter have been abducted by terrorists at Akilibu village, located along Kaduna-Abuja highway. The incident reportedly occurred around 8:30 pm on Saturday. The terrorists were said to have went straight to a local farm manager’ house to abduct the victims. It was gathered that the terrorists stormed the house with the intention of abducting the woman’s husband but he was not at home at the time of their arrival. A neighbour of the victims, who didn’t want to be named, said the housewife, identified…

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Insecurity: Over 3,000 people abducted, N654m ransom paid in one year – Intelligence Report

Aminu Imam

Between the period of July 2021 and June 2022, no fewer than 3,420 people were abducted across Nigeria, with 564 others killed in violence associated with abductions, according to a new report by an intelligence firm, SBM Intelligence. The report, titled: ‘The Economic of Nigeria’s Kidnap Industry’, noted that in the same period, N6.5billion was demanded in exchange for the release of captives while a fraction of that sum (N653.7million) was paid as ransom. “These figures are particularly important because of the rising poverty levels in the country. In 2020, Nigerians…

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Katsina: Terrorists kill 3, abduct school principal, nursing mother, baby, others

Aminu Imam

Terrorists in the early hours of Tuesday killed three persons and kidnapped seven others, including a secondary school principal, at ?ar Tafki and Unguwar Isiyaka villages under Funtua local government area of Katsina State. It was learnt that aside from killing three persons, the assailants abducted the Principal of Government Secondary School, Makera, alongside a 35-yr-old nursing mother and her 17-month-old baby from ?ar Tafki village and four others from Unguwar Isiyaka village, including the ward head. The source said: “Early this (Tuesday) morning some armed terrorists in large numbers…

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Outrage as Govt fails to intercept abduction of 17 Abuja residents 24hrs after location details provided

Aminu Imam

…’We are investigating’ – Police The failure of security operatives to intercept the abduction of about 17 residents of Abuja almost 24 hours after a victim shared location details of movement on-line has led to an outrage on social media platforms. Many expressed their disappointment that the kidnappers have been moving across the country unchallenged and without emergency response to rescue the victims. One of the abducted victims, Ameerah Sufyan, who described herself as a psychotherapist, announced her abduction around 1pm yesterday by men she claimed were in police uniforms.…

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Nigeria’s Insecurity: 2,968 killed, 1,484 abducted in three months – Report

Aminu Imam

…Niger, Zamfara, Kaduna most violent States At least, 2,968 people were killed, while 1,484 were abducted in Nigeria from January to March 2022, according to data released by the Nigeria Security Tracker, (NST). The NST, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations, gathers the data through “weekly surveys of Nigerian and international media”. According to the data, more people were killed in the North-West region than in other regions in the country, whereby at least 1,103 people were killed within the period in the region. The North-Central region recorded…

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Former FCT minister, Sunday Ewuga abducted by gunmen in Nasarawa

Aminu Imam

Suspected gunmen have reportedly kidnapped a former Senator and Minister of State in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Solomon Sunday Ewuga around Gudi in the Akwanga local government area of Nasarawa State. The incident is said to have happened on the evening of yesterday. The former Senator, who represented Nasarawa-North Senatorial district from 2011-2015 was returning home when the gunmen waylaid and abducted him. Ewuga was vice-chairman of three different Senate committees during his tenure at the National Assembly. Further details of the abduction are still sketchy at the moment.…

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