Tag: Kidnapped
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Police vow to rescue four seminarians kidnapped in Kaduna
The Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Umar Muri, has visited the Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaduna where four students were abducted and assured that the police would secure their release. A statement by the command’s spokesman, Yakubu Sabo issued to newsmen on Friday said the commissioner undertook on-the-spot assessment of the scene and the…
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Gunmen abduct medical doctor in Yola, NMA speaks
Gunmen stormed the house of a medical doctor in Yola in the early hours of Sunday and abducted a medical doctor. Sources said the gunmen took Dr Abdurrahman Muhammad Kawuyo of the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, from his home in Lakare, a community in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, and have asked…
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Gunmen kidnap 6-year-old Bayelsa commissioner’s son
About four unidentified gunmen stormed the New Commissioner’s quarters in Yenagoa on Sunday night and abducted a six-year-old son of a Commissioner. The abducted victim was identified as the son of the Commissioner for Water Resources, Nengi Talbot. The gunmen were said to have broken into the house of Talbot at the quarters located in…
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JUST IN: Police Inspector, one other person kidnapped in Abuja
A police inspector identified as Selven and one Nengba Mundi have been reportedly kidnapped at Rubochi community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The two men were abducted on Sunday, barely 48 hours after gunmen whisked away from the younger brother to a former Chairman of Kuje Area Council, Mohammed Galadima,…
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Kidnapped Civil Defence operatives released, says commandant
The Edo State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has confirmed the release of two of its senior operatives abducted on Sept. 27. The Commandant, Mr Makinde Ayinla, confirmed the release in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Tuesday. Ayinla said the operatives were released…
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How daughter of Ex-Adamawa Gov aspirant was kidnapped, released in Abuja
Aisha Umar Ado, daughter of a former governorship aspirant in Adamawa state, Dr. Umar Ardo, was kidnapped by gunmen in Abuja on Saturday night. But she was freed on Sunday, her father announced. Aisha, aged 24 years and popularly called Ummi, was abducted on Saturday at about 7:45pm at Blinkers Shopping Mall, at 46, Kwame…
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Six INEC staff kidnapped, released in Kogi
Six staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were kidnapped and later released in Lokoja, Kogi State during the state assembly election on Saturday. The kidnapping of the staff was one of the incidents recorded during the election that was generally marred by violence. The staff were kidnapped by armed thugs decked in fake…
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81 people, mostly school children, kidnapped in Cameroon
More than 80 people, mostly students, were kidnapped from a school in the city of Bamenda in western Cameroon by gunmen on Sunday, government and military sources said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction in the English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway state. The separatists have imposed curfews and…
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Police rescue kidnapped INEC worker, minor, 7 others
The police in Akwa Ibom State have rescued Mr Otobong Ukpong, an employee of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) kidnapped on June 5 on his way to work, a minor and seven others. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, said in Uyo on Saturday that the police with other security agencies about noon flushed…
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Three charged for kidnapping ‘Halloween’ actress
Three people have been formally indicted for kidnapping “Halloween: Resurrection” actress Daisy McCrackin and actor Joseph Capone, holding one naked in a bathtub for 30 hours while demanding the other pay a $10,000 ransom, Yahoo News reports. Keith Andre Stewart, Johntae Jones and Amber Neal were charged with 17 felony counts, including kidnapping, assault with…