Crime

Monday, 29 January 2024 04:37

Benue killings continue as 8 die in fresh terrorist attacks on communities

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen on Saturday unleashed terror in some communities in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State, killing eight people. Residents of the affected communities, such as Ogwumogbo, Ikpele, and Ejima, were reported to have fled their villages. Agatu communities have consistently witnessed armed herders attacks in the past two weeks, with troops and civilians killed. In the first attack, which happened on January 18, 2024, five people, including three troops, were ambushed and killed. Force Commander of Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, Sunday Igbinowanhia, a major general, who later confirmed the killing of three troops to journalists…

Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:45

Police officers detailed to rescue victims from attack themselves abducted by bandits in Delta

Three mobile policemen attached to PMF 51, Oghara, have been reportedly abducted by suspected herdsmen in the Ohoror community of the East-West Road in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Sunday Special gathered that the kidnappers also carted away the service AK47 rifles with ammunition of the policemen who were marched into the bush. It was learnt that the kidnapped cops were part of a team of six mobile policemen drafted to the Ughelli-Patani Road nipping point. It was also learnt that the news of the abduction created tension in the community. A police source said the…

Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:44

Deputy VC abducted by gunmen while buying fuel at filling station in Abia

Gunmen have abducted the deputy vice-chancellor of a Nigerian university. The victim, Godwin Emezue, of Abia State University, Uturu, was abducted from a petrol station at Umuekwule, Amachara, a community in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State, south-east Nigeria. Emelue, a professor, was said to have driven into the station alongside his wife to buy fuel for their vehicle on Friday night when the gunmen attacked them. Sources said that the hoodlums, numbering about three, dragged the professor into their waiting Lexus SUV, collected his wife’s ATM card and zoomed off. When contacted on Saturday morning, the spokesperson…

Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:43

Gunmen kidnap transport union leader from home in Oyo

Gunmen, on Saturday, kidnapped Akeem Akintola, Oyo State Chairman, Tipper, Lorry and Quarry Park Management System (PMS). Akintola, popularly known as KUSO, was kidnapped at his residence in the Ajiboye area, Omi Apata, Ibadan. A source, who did not want his name published, said that the gunmen stormed Akintola’s residence in the early hours of Saturday and abducted him to an unknown destination. Efforts by our correspondent to confirm the incident from the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Oyo State, Adewale Osifeso, proved abortive. Several calls put through to his number were not answered. NAN

Saturday, 27 January 2024 04:46

PDP chairman, others kidnapped on Lagos-Ibadan expressway after meeting with Makinde, Adeleke

Suspected kidnappers have abducted Philip Aivoji, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, and some members of the party. Hakeem Amode, spokesperson of the party in the state, who confirmed the incident, said Aivoji and his party members were abducted on Friday on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway while returning from a meeting. Amode said the PDP chairman was in Ibadan to attend a meeting convened by Seyi Makinde and Ademola Adeleke, governors of Oyo and Osun states, respectively. Amode said security agencies and government authorities at all levels should intervene promptly and secure the release of the party’s chairman.…

Friday, 26 January 2024 04:32

Fresh attacks in Plateau leave at least 30 dead

At least 30 people have been killed and several others injured in Nigeria's central Plateau state in a series of attacks around Mangu town, despite a curfew imposed by the state government, a community spokesperson said. Farmer-herder attacks and communal conflicts are rife in central Nigeria, an ethnically and religiously diverse hinterland known as the 'Middle Belt' where a circle of violence has claimed hundreds of lives in recent years. The latest violence on Tuesday and Wednesday came after a Christmas Day attack in the area which left at least 140 people dead. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on Jan.…

Tuesday, 23 January 2024 04:55

Bandits dressed in military uniforms kidnap 31 from Katsina community

Gunmen suspected to be bandits dressed in military uniforms have kidnapped 31 villagers in a coordinated attack carried out in Tashar Nagule village of Batsari local government area of Katsina State. A credible source in the area disclosed that the armed men in large numbers appeared in military uniforms inside the community on Sunday night and seized both women, children and men, numbering 31. He explained that the assailants had first besieged the community before sending some of their men through the main entrance to kidnap the villagers, while their motorcycles were left outside the community. “I was sitting outside…

Sunday, 21 January 2024 04:47

Gunmen abduct man driving home with wife on Abuja airport road

Amid the rising wave of insecurity in Abuja, Abdullahi Sabo, a resident of the nation’s capital, has been abducted. Sabo was heading home with his wife when gunmen intercepted his vehicle at Sabon-Lugbe, Airport road in the nation’s capital. The victim was driving in his Ash color Lexus SUV with registration number ABC 769 TP when the unfortunate incident occurred, on Friday night. It was gathered that he had left the city center and was heading home when the attackers inside an unmarked Golf car opened fire and deflated tyres of the SUV. The victim was driving in his Ash…

Friday, 19 January 2024 04:50

Residents flee Zamfara communities as bandits threaten to attack

Residents of 10 communities in Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State have fled their homes for fear of being attacked by a notorious bandits’ leader, Dan Nagala, who earlier sent attack threats to them. The affected villages are Gidan Soro, Maje, Fanda Hakki, Hayin Dankaro, Doka, Dan Gamji, Galmuwar Hannu, Dan Katsina, Dakwalge and Gidan Arne. The residents, our reporter gathered, fled their homes following a recent operation carried out by soldiers of the Operation Hadarin Daji unit. The operatives on Tuesday stormed the famous Danbasa-Buzaya forest and recovered a large number of cows allegedly stolen and kept by…

Friday, 19 January 2024 04:49

9 killed in rival militia fights in Benue community

At least nine people have been killed after an armed militia invasion on Anyom settlement in Mbatyula Council Ward of Kastina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. Villagers blamed the attack which happened in the early hours of Wednesday on a group of rival militia who had recently been on the prowl. The villagers disclosed that rival militia groups had been wreaking havoc in Mbatyula and Mbayongo where the late wanted criminal kingpin, Terwase Akwaza, popularly known as Gana, hailed from. The villagers also alleged that coordinated serial attacks were carried out in parts of Mbatyula council ward by the…

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Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:32

Bandits kill businessman, kidnap 13 family members on Kaduna highway

Suspected bandits have killed a 53-year-old baker, Tijani Amedu, and abducted his 13 relatives, who are mainly children, travelling alongside him, in the Katari area of Kaduna State. The Edo State-born businessman’s brother, Rasaq, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, said the incident happened on January 6, 2024, while the victims were returning to Kaduna after visiting Warri, Delta State. Rasaq said, “They came to visit for the Christmas and New Year holidays. My siblings and their families came to visit. But they got attacked by bandits when they were going back to Kaduna, using two buses.…

Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:50

Bandits run riot nationwide, kidnapping and demanding ransom: Here’s how it is across the geopolitical zones

Terrorists, bandits, and criminals of other hues took their inglorious activities in the country to a new dimension in the last 48 hours, wreaking mayhem in six states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. Their deadly operations across five of the six geo-political zones of the country left no fewer than six persons dead; 60 persons kidnapped, a corpse stolen and goods worth millions of naira also stolen. The only zone not affected by the attacks was the South-South. However, neither Force Headquarters nor Defence Headquarters, DHQ, responded to calls on an inquiry about what they were doing to…

Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:49

‘Abuja not safe’ trends as bandits wreck more havoc on Nigeria’s seat of federal govt

Some social media users are currently expressing anger following reports that one Miss Folorunsho Ariyo was killed alongside Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar by bandits in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to reports, kidnappers dumped the remains of four victims they executed, around a former military checkpoint behind Idah Junction along the Bwari-Jere SCC Road in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Among the corpses so far identified include a secondary school student identified as the daughter of the Ekiti state-born chief legal officer of the National University Commission (NUC), Folorunsho Ariyo, and a 500-level student of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)…

Monday, 15 January 2024 04:46

Kidnappers demand N135m ransom for travelers abducted on Benue highway

About 45 passengers in three fully loaded 15-seater commercial buses are reported to have been abducted by armed men in Orokam, along the Otukpo-Enugu Road in Ogbadigbo Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state. It was gathered from an eyewitness and driver of one of the commercial transportation companies in Makurdi, who narrowly escaped the ambush with his passengers, that the incident occurred at about 3:30pm last Thursday. The heavily armed men were reported to have ambushed the ill-fated commercial vehicles when they sprang from the nearby forests in Orokam and forced their drivers at gunpoint to pull over. According…

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