Tag Archives: Ransom

Two members of the Osun Baptist Conference held while delivering ransom to abductors in a community in Kogi State have regained their freedom.   The two persons had gone to deliver N6 million to secure the release of two farmers, Samuel Oladotun and Fashola Tobiloba, abducted by gunmen in the …

Some yet to be identified armed men suspected to be bandits terrorizing some parts of Zamfara State, have abducted the father of the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, Alhaji Nasiru Muazu Magarya. The assailants also kidnapped the Speaker’s stepmother, uncle, and other four persons during an attack in …

A judge of the Federal High Court, Akure, Justice Abdul Dogo, has been kidnapped. Justice Dogo was abducted on Tuesday by unknown gunmen while he was returning to Akure from Abuja. The Nation learned that the kidnappers have made contact and demanded N50 million to release their abductee. It was …

Roselyn Okokingho, a breastfeeding mother of a nine-week old baby who was kidnapped in Towon Brass, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by gunmen, regained her freedom on Tuesday, according to family sources. Pius Okokingho, husband to the kidnapping victim, said on Wednesday that his wife had spent two …

Gunmen on Wednesday morning kidnapped the Ikeja Local Government Clerk, Shamsideen Abiodun Omotayo. Omotayo was whisked away at Imota, Ikorodu, while on his way to work, spokesman for the local council secretariat, Bello Onilegbale said. According to him, Omotayo’s kidnappers have contacted the council’s Head of Administration, Mrs. Mosunmola Otaiku-Okoka. …

  A man who worked with others to kidnap his father has been arrested. The suspect was paraded by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, along with others on Wednesday. Mr. Odude said that the kidnapping of the suspect’s father took place at Igboora in Ibarapa Central Local …

  Fareeda, the two-year-old daughter of a slain broadcaster, who was abducted by gunmen in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, has been released. Sources told the News Agency of Nigeria that the abductors released the little girl and a friend of her mother on Monday evening at Ikorodu. They were …