Suspected gunmen, numbering six last Sunday, attacked the Guita community, Chikakore, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and abducted two sisters, said to be 16 and 14 years old. According to reports, the gunmen, after the attack, escaped through the bush track, which links the community to another village. Confirming the…
A 37-year-old woman, Bilikisu Kazeem, on Friday killed during a gun battle between operatives and kidnappers, Ogun State Police Command has disclosed. According to reports, the incident, which occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, said nine hostages were rescued from the kidnappers during the encounter. Omolola Odutola, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, while…
The suspected gunmen, on Friday, abducted the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of Abia State University (ABSU), Prof. Godwin Emezue. ASP Maureen Chinaka, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Abia Command, while confirming the incident in a statement issued in Umuahia, the state capital, on Saturday, said at about 9.30 pm on Friday, the Abia Police…
Scores were on Saturday, reportedly killed when men of the Nigerian army and gunmen clashed in two villages of Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. This came after Governor Caleb Mutfwang relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on the area. Mutfwang had said following the security improvement, the curfew should be from 8 am to…
Mr Philip Aivoji, the chairman, Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to sources, the chairman was abducted along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway around 6 p.m on Thursday. Hon. Hakeem Amode, the state publicity secretary of the party, while confirming the abduction, stated that the chairman was returning from a stakeholders’ meeting in…
No fewer than three notorious bandits on Friday, neutralised by the operatives of the Special Intervention Squad, Federal Capital Territory Police Command, in a forest within the Bwari area of Abuja. According to reports, the bandits were killed in the early hours of Friday, January 26, at about 2 am, in a forest linking Abuja…
No fewer than 17 suspects have been arrested in connection with the Christmas eve attacks in Bokkos and Barikin Ladi and those of the Mangu local government area of the state, where many people were killed and houses were burnt. Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 4, Ebony Eyibio, represented by the spokesperson of the…
One million naira bribe has been rejected by a police Divisional Officer offered to him by a suspected kidnapper to stop his arrest in a hotel in Kaduna Community. According to a report, the arrested bandit allegedly offered the bribe out of the ransom recovered from him by the police at a hotel in the…
Despite the 24-hour curfew imposed on Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State by Governor Caleb Mutfwang, the heights of insecurity in the state have continued to wreak havoc following a fresh attack which involved Killings and burning of houses. According to a report, the violence continued as residents of Mangu confirmed that gunmen stormed…
In a move to curb the prevailing insecurity in the country, Olukayode Egbetokun, the Inspector-General of Police, on Tuesday, directed no fewer than 54 Assistant Commissioners of Police to take over and re-invigorate intelligence departments of 36 States and 18 zonal commands. Egbetokun, in a statement by the force spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, explained that the…
A resident of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Suleiman Sabo, who was kidnapped on Friday at Sauka along the airport road, Abuja, has been rescued It was gathered that Sabo was abducted when heading home with his wife after the gunmen intercepted them. It was learned that the victim was driving in his Ash colour…
A notorious terrorist and kidnap kingpin, “Janari’’ and several members of his syndicate, on Saturday, were neutralised by the air component of the special joint military task force “Operation Whirl Punch.’’ AVM Edward Gabkwet, the spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force, while stating this on Sunday in Abuja, said that Janari and his cohorts had…
In a recent development, five out of the six Al-Kadriyar sisters, who were abducted in early January from the Bwari area of Abuja, have been successfully released, shedding light on a tragic incident that has gripped the community. The Informant247 has learned that the sisters, along with their father and other residents, were kidnapped, but…
The Adamawa State Police Command has successfully apprehended three suspects linked to the gruesome beheading of Bilkisu Idi at the Happy Day Hotel in Yola North Local Government Area. The incident had sent shockwaves across the state capital, prompting swift police action. The suspects identified as Offa Jacob and Yifarta Caleb, both receptionists at the…
In the early hours of Saturday, unidentified gunmen carried out a kidnapping spree in Otu town, situated in the Itesiwaju Local Government Area of Oyo State. The victims, identified as Mr. Dayo Olayanju and Mrs. Kehinde Obasola, were abducted by the assailants. Notably, Mr. Kehinde Obasola managed to escape the abduction but sustained gunshot wounds…
Suspected gunmen on Thursday night, attacked Kuriga community, killing a school principal, Idris Abu Sufyan while abducting his wife and her baby, an incident which threw the community, located along Kaduna-Birnin Gwari highway into confusion. According to local sources, the bandits stormed Sufyan’s house on Thursday night, shot him dead and whisked away his wife…
No fewer than two people were kidnapped on Thursday night after suspected gunmen invaded the Nigerian Army Post Housing Scheme in the Kurudu area of Abuja. The Informant247 gathered that the kidnapped victims, which include the wife and one of the in-laws of a lawyer, Cyril Adikwu, were abducted around 10:00 pm in the Phase…
No fewer than four people, including two soldiers, on Thursday were killed after gunmen attacked the Okokolo community of Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. The Informant247 gathered, according to locals in Makurdi, the state capital, that the military men were responding to threats of attacks on several Agatu communities when the gunmen ambushed…
The operatives of the Kaduna Police Command on Thursday rescued one Segun Akinyemi, an Abuja resident, who was kidnapped while driving out of his house after a heated gunfire exchange between the Police and the kidnappers. According to Police Public Relations Officer in Kaduna, ASP Mansir Hassan, the kidnappers were taking the victim from Abuja,…
In a successful joint operation, troops of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), in collaboration with the police and other security agencies, have executed a daring rescue mission in Benue, resulting in the liberation of 9 kidnap victims and the apprehension of two suspects. Maj. Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia, the Force Commander of OPWS, shared the triumphant news…
