In a revelation before the House Committee on Solid Minerals during the defense of the Ministry’s 2024 budget estimate, Dele Alake, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, unveiled that influential and powerful figures within Nigeria are orchestrating and financing activities such as banditry, kidnappings, and illegal mining. Alake, addressing the committee on Tuesday, highlighted the…
Suspected bandits have reportedly killed a villager and abducted seven others – five females and two males – at Unguwar Gajere community in Kutemeshi Ward of Birnin Gwari Local Government Area, Kaduna State. The Informant247 gathered according to local sources that the victims were attacked while working on their farms on August 2, 2023. Yahaya…
A naval officer, who was abducted over the weekend in Onitsha, Anambra State, has been rescued. A source from the State Naval Outpost, who pleaded for anonymity, said the officer, simply identified as Ozuowa, was rescued by the military without any ransom paid. The victim, currently serving at the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Ologbo, was…
The Kwara State Police Command have confirmed the abduction of four truck drivers in Kwara state. The incident occurred on a farm on the outskirt of Ilorin, the state capital. Police command said that the victims were abducted by gunmen allegedly dressed in military uniform at a site where they went to collect Sand which…
The Plateau State Police Command says it has arrested a Pastor, Albarka Bitrus who faked his kidnap and collected ransom from members of his congregation. DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said that the clergyman was arrested alongside his collaborators following intelligence reports after…
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested one Issa Naigheti for allegedly kidnapped his father, Bature Naigboho, in Igboho in Orelope Local Government Area of Oyo State and got a ransom of N2.5 million before his release, saying he was arrested by the anti-kidnapping team at the Kambi area on Ilorin-Jebba road in Moro local…
The four Kogi State Polytechnic students and their driver have been freed by their abductors. Informant247 recalls that the victims were kidnapped on the Akunnu-Ajowa Road in the Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo State last week on their way travelling back home for the Christmas holiday. Informant247 gathered that some day after their…
Suspected kidnappers have killed three abducted siblings after collecting N60 million ransom and motocycle from their father in Taraba State. Informant247 gathered that the killing of the abducted children took place on Sunday, 25th December 2022, at a forest near Garin Dogo in the Lau Local Government Area of the state. According to the source,…
The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday, said over 30 patrol teams have been formed between Oyo and Ogun to tackle issues of kidnapping along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Abiodun also disclosed that drones would be deployed to cover the road, explaining that the drones would aid security agents in monitoring and seeing the activities…
Terrorists were reportedly feasting as more kidnapped Kebbi students delivered babies, while others are pregnant. The terrorists have performed a naming ceremony for the baby delivered by a kidnapped student. The 16-year-old is one of the learners abducted from the Federal Government College (FGC) in Birnin Yauri. It was gathered that the young mother is…
Unknown gunmen abducted travelers on the Ikom-Ogoja Highway in Cross River on Tuesday. The Commissioner of Police in Cross River, Mr Sule Balarabe, confirmed the abduction, saying that the number of victims had not been ascertained. He stated that while awaiting the number of victims from the Divisional Police Officer in the area, a tactical…
A police officer was reportedly killed on Friday when some unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers blocked the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The kidnappers eventually went away with a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Professor Adigun Agbaje, and two students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, Ogun State, one of whom…
Unknown gunmen have abducted the traditional ruler of Owa-Onire in the Kwara South Senatorial District of the State. It was gathered that the traditional ruler was kidnapped along with his wife and driver. The Police Public Relations Officer of the State police command, Okasanmi Ajayi, confirmed this to newsmen on Saturday. He disclosed that two…
John Iyon, a suspected has pleaded to be forgiven, giving excuse that his wife had just put to bed ( a baby boy). Report has it that the suspect was apprehended in Abuja, the nation’s capital after being monitored from Bayelsa State after a kidnap scenario. Iyon in a video, which has gone viral was…
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…
Gunmen suspected to be Bandits have invaded some villages in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State, killed one person, injured many and abducted no fewer than 10 people. It was gathered that one of the villages attacked was Ebbo, where the office of the vigilante was attacked and a vigilante member killed, another seriously…
Unknown gunmen have reported abducted one Rev. Bung Dong at Ganawuri community, Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau state. DSP Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday in Jos. Alabo said that the cleric was abducted on Sunday night, alongside one Mr James Mann,…
Some funeral were abducted in Ifon, Ondo State, a border town with Edo State, while returning from a burial service in Ewatto, Edo State, The Informant247 reports. It was gathered that kidnappers who abducted the burial guest are demanding for a ransom of N90 million before releasing the victims It was learnt that the kidnappers…
Unknown gunmen abducted scores of travellers on Benin-Owo Expressway in Ifon, the headquarters of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. Confirming the incident on Sunday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Ondo State Command, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, said she could not ascertain the number of the victims. According to her, men of the command…
A 35 year old tricycle operator, Joseph Audu, has confessed that his friends lured him with N80,000 out of the N400,000 ransom paid by the relatives of their victim after their first kidnapping operation in Ore town, Odigbo council area of Ondo state. According to reports, Audu was apprehended in the act by some vigilante…
