The Katsina State Police Command have arrested three teenagers for kidnapping a six-year-old girl in Kano. SP Gambo Isah, the Command’s spokesperson, disclosed this on Wednesday in Katsina. He gave the names of the three suspects, who were all nineteen years old, as Abdulrazaq Ibrahim; Aliyu Salisu and Muhammed Ibrahim. Only Ibrahim resides in Kano…
The University of Ibadan revealed that Professor Adigun Agbaje, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC, Academics) of the institution, has been set free. Agbaje, is a Political science professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences is one of the travellers who were kidnapped on Friday. They were kidnapped along the Lagos/ Ibadan expressway. The Informant247 gathered on Monday…
A Priest with Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, Rev. Fr. Joseph Igweagu, has been kidnapped in Anambra State. It was gathered that Rev. Fr. Igweagu who is the Parish Priest in charge of St Joseph’s Parish Abata Nsugbe, Anambra East Local Government Area of the state have been abducted on Wednesday October 12, 2022 while returning…
The Police Command in Rivers State has confirmed the freedom of 4 out of the passengers abducted along the Emohua/Kalabari axis of the East-West road in the state last Saturday. The spokesperson of the Police Command in the state, Grace-Iringe-Koko who made this revelation in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said the kidnapped victims were set…
A kidnap lord, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also referred to as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, were sentenced to 21 years imprisonment on Monday. The Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos State passed the judgement. There were accusations of conspiracy and kidnapping against the two convicts. They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia…
The families of two people who were kidnapped last week Friday are still in search of money to pay as ransom. A source very close to the families of the duo made this revelation during a conversation with newsmen on Tuesday. It was gathered that the two of Olugbenga Owolabi, a hotelier and one of…
Comrade Gabriel Abah, the Chairman of the Kundenda Industrial Area, Kaduna unit of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, has expressed concern over the activities of bandits who have abducted their members in recent time. He said over N5 million ransom to secure the freedom of their drivers. While granting an interview in…
A businessman, Mr Sylvanus Ahamonu, has narrated before an Ikeja Special Offences Court, how he was allegedly kidnapped, tortured and made to pay $420,000 ransom by alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans) and his gang members. Ahamonu, gave evidence online via the Zoom App, as the third prosecution witness in the trial of Evans…
Popular Congolese singer Koffi Olomide has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Versailles Court in France on Monday, December 13, 2021. According to The Standard, the veteran singer was sentenced to jail for holding four women (his former dancers) against their will. In 2019, the music star was found guilty of sexual assault…
A 39-year-old “cleric” who resides at Sabon-Fegi, Yankara village, Faskari Local Government Area of Kastina State has been arrested for kidnapping his 4-year-old cousin, Umar Farouk Kabir. According to SP Isah Gambo, Police Public Relations Officer, the suspect was arrested on 25 October 2021. He said in the course of the investigation, the suspect confessed…
The Operatives of Ogun State Police Command, on Monday, arrested a housewife, Memunat Salaudeen, for allegedly hiring three men to kidnap her husband. The wife, who accused her husband of being stingy, was reported to have hired the accomplices — Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin — to kidnap her husband and take a…
…as school mgt calls for calm, advises students The Police in Kwara State are scrambling to rescue the Mass Communication student of the Kwara State University, Miss Isiaq Kadeejah who was abducted on Sunday along Okoru Road in Malete town. “The Commissioner of Police, Kwara State, has deployed the Anti kidnapping Squad as well…
The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba has begged bandits to stop kidnapping school children, pleading that they should free the remaining abducted students under their custody. Speaking during an interview on Tuesday with Channels Television, Nwajiuba said the federal government was doing all it could to ensure that those in captivity were all…
Gunmen kidnap varsity students in Benue – The Informant247 Some gunmen have kidnapped some students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM) in Benue State. The school authorities confirmed the incident to Daily Trust, saying an unspecified number of students were taken away at gunpoint on Sunday night. The Director of Information, Protocol, and…
Last week Saturday, a 24-year-old female teacher, identified as Medinat Ibrahim who faked her own kidnap was arrested by the Kwara State Police Command in Olude, Oke-Fomo area of Ilorin, Kwara state capital. Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ajayi Okasanmi made this revelation while parading the suspect before newsmen at the command headquarters in the…
The kidnapped chairman of the All Progressives Congress chairman (APC) in Nassarawa State, Philip Shekwo, is dead. It was earlier reported that about 10:pm on Saturday, some suspected kidnappers invaded the residence of the APC chairman and took him away to an unknown destination. According to The Punch Newspaper, the Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State…
