LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 39 students just weeks after a similar mass abduction in the region, authorities said Friday. The latest kidnapping took place late…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A soccer player formerly on Nigeria’s national team was killed in a car crash and another was kidnapped by gunmen while driving in a separate incident on the same day, their…
Police in Nigeria say six female secondary school students and two members of staff have been kidnapped in Kaduna State in the north of the country. The kidnappings happened before dawn at the Engravers College…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Lagos say they have rescued 19 pregnant girls and young women who had been kidnapped, impregnated and forced to give birth to babies which were then sold. Lagos police…
ABUJA – A recent wave of abductions in Nigeria is raising fear across the country. Unlike kidnappings which take on political dimensions — such as those involving militants who agitate against oil companies in the…
The Imo Police Command on Thursday paraded 72 suspects which it said were allegedly believed to be behind the recent waves of crimes across the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Ladodo, while parading…
The Sokoto state Police Command has confirmed the abduction of Alhaji Aminu Bodai (APC- Dange/Shuni) by unknown gunmen in Bodai village of Dange/Shuni local government area of the state. The Police Public Relationship Officer PPRO,…
Mrs. Ogere Siasia, the mother of former Super Eagles Coach Samson Siasia was kidnapped by gunmen in the early hours of Monday. The victim was abducted at her Odoni country home in Sagbama Local Government…
KADUNA, NIGERIA — Nigerian security agents have freed two German archaeologists kidnapped by gunmen from a remote dig, the governor of northern Kaduna state said Sunday. Governo Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai “commended the security agencies for…
Former minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Laraba Mallam and her husband, Pius Mallam, who were abducted by gunmen on Monday have been released by their captors. The former minister and her husband were kidnapped along…