The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) says its personnel and other security agencies are trailing gunmen, who gained entrance into the academy’s residential area in Afaka, Kaduna, in the early hours of Tuesday. The Academy Public Relations Officer, Maj. Bashir Jajira…
Gunmen have kidnapped Ademola Alayaki, the son of a former National Secretary of the Nigerian Medical Association, Adewunmi Alayaki. Ademola, 25, was kidnapped at his father’s farm in Isaga Orile, Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State on Wednesday.…
Gunmen killed a police officer and six employees of Nigerian oil and gas services company Lee Engineering during an attack on a project site in the southeastern state of Imo, police said on Tuesday. Attacks on oil and gas facilities…
Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits have abducted students from the College of Agriculture and Animal Science in Bakura Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The armed men also killed security personnel. Sources told Channels Television that the bandits stormed…
The Police Command in Zamfara said gunmen had kidnapped the wife and seven-month-old son of an ex-councilor in the state, Mr Babangida Ibrahim. Confirming the development, the spokesman for the command, SP Muhammad Shehu, told newsmen that the gunmen attacked…
…demand for N5m ransom By Mike Adebayo, Ado-Ekiti Report just reaching Nigerian NewsDirect says a farmer Suyi Bamisaye has been kidnapped by gunmen in Ikole area of Ekiti State. This was confirmed to Nigerian NewsDirect by family members of the…
The Zamfara Police Command on Thursday confirmed the abduction of the father and step mother of Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Nasiru Magarya. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu, confirmed the incident to the newsmen…
Unknown gunmen attacked Sokoto Mass Transit and kidnapped over 60 travellers along the Sokoto-Gusau highway and killed two in another location same day. An official of the Sokoto Mass Transit confirmed to journalists that one of their buses was attacked…
Gunmen dressed in military camouflage have stormed the residence of Betinah Benson and kidnapped her to an unknown destination. The victim, aged 80, is the mother of Kombowei Benson, Secretary to the Bayelsa State government. The attack was carried out…
Gunmen have killed a former Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army, Major Gen Hassan Ahmed. Major Gen Hassan was killed on Thursday night along the Lokoja – Abuja when his vehicle was attacked by the assailants. “With a heavy heart,…
