Tag: Kidnapped

  • BREAKING: Kidnapped FRSC officials regain freedom

    BREAKING: Kidnapped FRSC officials regain freedom

    Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has revealed that all the remaining kidnapped officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), out of the initial 26 recently kidnapped along Maraban-Udege, have regained their freedom. He disclosed this Tuesday while playing host to the Market Enterprise Development Advisor, Fatima Mukthar Buhari at the government house Lafia. While…

  • JUST IN: Kidnapped Delta LG boss, Aduge Okorodudu regains freedom

    JUST IN: Kidnapped Delta LG boss, Aduge Okorodudu regains freedom

    Abducted chairman of Warri North council area of Delta State, Hon. Aduge Okorodudu, has regained his freedom. The Nation gathered that Okorodudu was released in the early hours of Tuesday. Circumstances surrounding the release were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, but a source claimed that some money was paid as…

  • Abducted wife of former Edo Speaker released

    Hassana, the wife of former Edo Speaker, Zakawanu Garuba, who was abducted along the Lokoja-Abuja highway on Saturday, has been released. She was kidnapped with the driver on her way to Auchi to bury Garuba, who died of undisclosed ailment in the early hours of Saturday in Abuja. Hassana, her three children and aged mother…

  • Army rescues kidnapped victims, recovers weapons in 3 states

    Army rescues kidnapped victims, recovers weapons in 3 states

    Troops of the Nigerian Army under Operation Sahel Sanity have rescued eight kidnapped victims and recovered weapons in Sokoto, Zamfara and Kastina States. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Defence Headquarters, Abuja, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, disclosed this at a press briefing on Sunday in Faskari, Kastina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that…

  • Just in: After spending one week in kidnappers den, Delta doctor regains freedom

    After spending one week in kidnappers den, Principal Medical Officer at Ojobo General Hospital in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Dr. Wisdom Iboyitete, has regained his freedom. Iboyitete was kidnapped by gunmen who had disguised as patients at the hospital premises. According to reports the Delta doctor was released by his abductors in…

  • Lebanese Nollywood actor rescued from kidnappers

    Lebanese Nollywood actor rescued from kidnappers

    The Police Command in Rivers State on Saturday said that it had rescued the abducted Lebanese actor who acts in Nollywood movies, Bilal Nosser. The command’s spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said in a statement that it took the swift intervention of operatives from Okehi Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer to rescue the…

  • Four prospective corps members kidnapped on their way to orientation camp

    Four prospective corps members travelling to Zamfara State for the NYSC orientation camp, have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. It was learnt that the corps members; three males and a female, and some other graduates from Rufus Giwa Polytechnic were kidnapped around Funtua in Katsina State while the driver fled. They were said to have…

  • Just in: Amaechi’s mother released by kidnappers

    Reports reaching TheNewsGuru (TNG) reveals that Mrs. Appolonia, the mother of Ikechukwu Amaechi, the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of TheNiche Newspapers, who was kidnapped by unknown gunmen has regained her freedom. According to reports from close associates of the Nigerian publisher, the 79-year-old grandmother and a retired teacher, who was abducted on Tuesday, March 3 has been…

  • Four NSCDC officers abducted in Kogi

    At least four officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have been kidnapped. William Aya, a deputy superintendent of police, revealed that the officers were kidnapped at a spot in Alo-Offoke community on the Itobe-Ayingba road. The officials were said to be travelling to Makurdi for promotion examination when their vehicles were…

  • Kidnapped Staff: Unizik SSANU stages rally in Anambra

    Kidnapped Staff: Unizik SSANU stages rally in Anambra

    Members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Anambra State, on Friday staged a protest to the state government house, over the kidnap of their colleague, Engr. Emeka Chiaghana The Unizik Staff, was kidnaped in his house in Nibo, Awka South council area of the state on October 25, 2019 and…