Parents in rural communities of Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State, where bandits abducted 39 children working on a farm, have pleaded with the government to rescue their children from their captors. Bandits in their numbers surrounded a farm on Sunday, where a number of people including boys and girls were working and abducted over 40 of them. A source in the Mairuwa community, one of the worst hit during the attack said the bandits surrounded the farm and started shooting sporadically before abducting the labourers. He said the representative of the farm owner had mobilised the children after…

One of the released victims of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway abduction, Aminat Taiwo, has narrated how her father paid N3.2m to her kidnappers before she was released alongside her friend, Tobi Orekoya. Aminat, who spoke to our correspondent on Monday, said her father took the ransom to the kidnappers deep in the forest, where they were held. The victim, her friend and some other road users were kidnapped last Friday near the Sat Guru Maharaji Garden at the Ibadan end of the expressway. The abductors contacted the families of the victims and demanded ransom ranging from N50m to N10m. It was,…

More details have emerged from the abduction that occurred Friday evening at Ibadan end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway. According to the police, an officer was killed after police operatives exchanged gunfire with suspected kidnappers along the expressway. In a statement on Saturday, Adewale Osifeso, spokesman of Oyo police command, said during the attack which occurred on Friday, another officer was “badly injured”. Adigun Agbaje, professor of political science and a former deputy vice-chancellor (academics) of the University of Ibadan, was also abducted during the attack. The police spokesman said four abandoned vehicles were retrieved from the scene of the duel. “During…

An unspecified number of motorists were feared kidnapped along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Friday. The development generated tension along the expressway as several vehicles aborted the trips to their destination and drove in the opposite direction. The incident happened around Dominion University City of Faith, KM 24, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. An eyewitness who spoke with our correspondent said nobody could ascertain the number of people kidnapped but three private vehicles were affected. He listed the affected as an SUV, a Toyota Camry and another Sedan whose model could not be ascertained. The eyewitness who was travelling from Lagos to Ibadan said…