Tag: kidnappings

Mr Wike said there are plans to use drones to enhance surveillance in the territory.

LEA Primary School, Kuriga. The scene of the latest abduction. Picture credit: PREMIUM TIMES We were still battling the waywardness ...

Mr Wike and the police commissioner will appear before the lawmakers in a closed-door session on a date to be ...

The Senate tasks the interior minister on standardising identification system to track criminals

The leader of the armed group, Musa Wada, was one of those killed in the shootout on Friday.

Police say Mr Mohammed has admitted to being a member of the group that carried out the abductions, during which ...

Mr Wike said the FCT Administration has identified what each of the security agencies need and would provide them through ...

If the Tinubu government will not follow the footsteps of Buhari’s and thus be less fatalistic in its security architecture ...

The president said education is the antidote to the troubles agitating the nation, adding: "There is no weapon against poverty ...

Mr Ajani said the abductors had given 2:00 p..m on Sunday (today) as the deadline for the payment of four ...

According to the advisory on the Australian High Commission's website, there have been significant casualties and widespread damage to infrastructure ...

President Buhari should decode the augural message inherent in Matawalle’s bohemian perspective in tackling the State’s insecurity by ending his ...

Installation. Kidnapped Chibok girls. “Zero tolerance?” “Decisively?” Words won’t deter these murderers and rapists. Words won’t bring back these students ...

The hoodlums also abducted seven other worshipers at the mosque.

At least 66 people were killed by non-state actors in various attacks across the country in the previous week.

"In the last two years we have witnessed and overcome a good number of testy challenges that would have destroyed ...

President Buhari should, urgently, address Nigerians on the challenges of insecurity and restore the confidence of our people.

PDP Governors should know that divisive rhetorics can only embolden the criminals who are carrying out these cowardly acts.

About 15 senators contributed to the debate on the worsening security situation across the country.

We must ask pertinent questions at this point: Who wants to destabilise Igboland and to what purpose?

The report says the five worst hit states are Borno with 1,176 deaths, Kaduna, 628; Katsina, 501, Zamfara, 262; and ...

"God willing, we will identify them, and deal with them," President Buhari says.

The women soldiers are to compliment existing operations along the Abuja-Kaduna highway.

The SSS listed 12 states as the main target, urging Nigerians to shun any divisive antics.