Tag: Kidnapping

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August 21, 2013

Insecurity: Kidnappers kill one policeman, abandon 6 victims in Delta

By ‘Jola Sotubo Suspected kidnappers struck in the Obiaruku  area of Delta State, killing a policeman and taking his firearm. ...

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August 17, 2013

Opinion: Abia’s tortuous journey to 22

by Ndukwe Ugbuaja   The kidnapping menace that nearly crippled activities in the state is now a thing of the ...

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August 16, 2013

Busted: ‘LAUTECH student’ arrested for kidnapping 2-year-old girl

by Oge Okonkwo A 24-year-old student of  Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, identified as Tosin, was arrested and ...

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July 31, 2013

Opinion: Nigerian universities and irregular admission processes

by Obinna Akukwe This non-transparent process have made many parents to sell family land, properties and life savings to send ...

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July 10, 2013

Woman, 25, in court for stealing a 2-year-old boy

by Rachel Ogbu A 25-year-old woman has appeared in court for kidnapping a two-year-old child. Blessing Omaye, was arraigned before ...

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July 6, 2013

Man arrested for kidnapping his own wife

New York City Police Department cars A New York man along with two others were arrested and charged with kidnapping, ...

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July 2, 2013

Gang in India ‘chop off eight-year-old girl’s arm with sword after she is main witness in kidnapping of younger brother’

A gang in India chopped off an eight-year-old girl’s arm with a sword as her family tried to secure the ...

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May 24, 2013

Terrible: Lebanese arrested for kidnapping his aunt “to punish her” (PICTURED)

by Rachel Ogbu A 23-year-old Lebanese has been arrested for kidnapping his 61-year-old aunty. On Thursday, Mohammed Dannawi told journalists ...

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May 19, 2013

Federal Ministry of Kidnapping: “Over 20 lecturers, relations abducted in Delta university”

Chairman Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka branch, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, at the weekend, said ...

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April 29, 2013

Inside job: Man charged for kidnapping his uncle in Lagos

by Chi Ibe A man was arraigned recently in connection with the kidnapping of his uncle. The prosecutor from the ...

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April 22, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: Why are we encouraging bad behaviour? (Y! FrontPage)

You do not, as a government show any form of weakness to miscreants. There is no surer recipe for anarchy ...

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April 20, 2013

Resource control: “Fasehun and I must share pipeline security contract” – OPC Gani Adams

by Isi Esene In this Punch Newspapers interview, the leader of a faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress, a Pan-Yoruba ...

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April 19, 2013

France’s foreign minister travels Cameroun to greet French family after their release by Boko Haram (PHOTO)

by Rachel Ogbu France Foreign minister, Laurent Fabius is in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon today to meet the French family ...

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April 19, 2013

Police parade kidnappers of NTA reporter, Akure chief’s daughter

by Akan Ido The Ondo state police command on Wednesday paraded suspected kidnappers who, according to security agents, have been ...

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March 22, 2013

“We will not free these 7 French hostages while our members are held and brutalised” – Boko Haram

by Rachel Ogbu “We are proud to say that we are holding the seven French hostages,” Boko Haram member announced on ...

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March 1, 2013

5 passengers kidnapped from bus along Lagos-Benin Expressway

by Rachel Ogbu Five passengers travelling to Lagos from Warri, Delta State were kidnapped along Lagos-Benin expressway on Wednesday February ...

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February 28, 2013

“It’s a deathtrap”: Youths protest over Eket-Ibeno Road, as 6 children die in accident (SNAPSHOT)

by Chi Ibe The death of six pupils in a road accident on Eket-Ibeno road, Akwa Ibom State caused people to go ...

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February 23, 2013

JTF in ‘massive manhunt’ for French family kidnapped in Cameroun by Boko Haram

The Nigerian security forces were in a “massive manhunt” Friday for seven members of a kidnapped French family after Paris ...

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February 3, 2013

An eye for an eye: Boko Haram must pay for what they’ve done – Victim

by Rachel Ogbu A victim of the Boko Haram attacks in the Northern recently demanded that the sect members must ...

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January 30, 2013

Gunmen abduct mother of leader of Bayelsa House of Assembly

by Isi Esene The mother of the Leader of Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Peter Akpe has been abducted ...

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January 3, 2013

Just in: Kidnapped Gombe lawmaker freed

by Isi Esene Jalo Ganga, the member representing Gombe North constituency in Gombe State House of Assembly who waas abducted ...

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December 23, 2012

Kidnappers reject govt bailout… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt

by Stanley Azuakola “Did that coffin not hold a soul, from which we should take example and fear? When the ...

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December 22, 2012

Emeka Oparah: How Nigerians can avoid a black Christmas

by Emeka Oparah …I think the ordinary Nigerian has given up and now lives in fear but with hope in ...

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November 25, 2012

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: (In)security (YNaija Frontpage)

I keep trying to have faith in our security operatives but they never help their case. If I were to ...

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October 5, 2012

“Had I married earlier, I wouldn’t be a kidnapper” – Female suspect explains

by Isi Esene Ngozi Onuonwu, 36, who was arrested as a member of a kidnapping syndicate in Lagos said she ...

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September 29, 2012

Temie Giwa: Arms and the plan (YNaija Frontpage)

  The North is being burnt by unemployed despondent youths. While in the South, young kidnappers and car jackals constantly ...

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August 12, 2012

Justice Okoh’s abductors demand N40m ransom

by Isi Esene The kidnappers of the Delta High Court Judge, Justice Marcel Okoh have opened a line of contact ...

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August 8, 2012

Delta State judge abducted, whereabouts unknown

by Isi Esene A newly appointed judge of the Delta State High Court, Justice Marcel Okoh, was yesterday abducted by ...

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August 6, 2012

VIDEO: Attempted abduction of 10-year-old girl caught on CCTV

by Adeniyi Abdul A man, identified by police as Figueroa Fagot, was caught on CCTV cameras in South Philadelphia attempting ...

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