Nigerian police say they have successfully rescued five sisters who were held hostage after being kidnapped in the country’s capital. The girls were freed in a joint police-army operation in a forest in northern Nigeria on Saturday night. They were taken from their
The Federal Capital Terrritory, FCT, Police Command has arrested a kidnapper, Muhammad Abel, in Sauka, along Airport Road, Abuja. The police also freed an abductee from his abductors in a rescue operation on Sunday. A statement issued by the Command’s spokesperson, Josephine Adeh,
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has rejected the move by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to relocate some key departments from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to Lagos State. ACF also kicked against the plan to move the headquarters of the Federal
The Nomad Vigilante Group, a quasi-security outfit representing the Fulani community in Nasarawa State, has rescued a kidnap victim. Operatives of the group, under the leadership of State Commander Alhaji Akajo A. Gyara, rescued the victim, Bashir Mohammed, in an operation carried out
Some suspects have been arrested in connection with the beheading of a young lady in a hotel in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. The spokesman of the Police Command, Suleiman Nguroje, said on Friday that three employees of the hotel, identified as Jacob
A woman whose dead body was found in a hotel in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, has been identified by her former husband. A suspected ritual killer had taken the said woman to the hotel, now identified as Happy Day Guest Inn,
•Regret that no President has been decisive with military and consequences of their failure since 1999•Want definitive order to security chiefs•Say current strategies weak, already known to terrorists, bandits Following the spate of killings and kidnappings across the country, Saturday Vanguard got some
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, was on Friday arraigned at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, Abuja, on 20 a count-charge bordering on corruption and
The Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement in SouthWest, Moremi Ojudu, has expressed sadness over the explosion recorded in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Tuesday. Ojudu, according to a statement on Friday, commiserated with families of the victims during a visit
Aged women including widows on Friday afternoon staged a protest in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital to express their displeasure over the Supreme Court’s judgment which affirmed the election of Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress. The governorship candidate of the