kidnappings

Spate Of Kidnappings In Kogi Reduced – Gov Yahaya Bello

October 3, 2020 2:54 pm

Govenor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has said that the spate of kidnappings in the state has reduced to the barest minimum.

He stated this on Saturday at the Senate Press Corps’ Retreat 2020, held in Lokoja, Kogi with the theme, “Democracy and Development in a Federation: Roles of Media, States and Parliaments’’.

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Declaring the event open, Gov. Bello, who was represented by his Deputy, David Onoja, said that before the emergence of the present administration in the state in 2016, ‘Kogi was noted as the kidnap capital of Nigeria’.’

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Kidnappings, Forced Marriage Against Islamic Injunctions

November 10, 2019 4:33 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari has said indiscriminate killing of innocent people, the kidnapping of female students and forcing them into marriage and conversion are contrary to the teachings and personal examples of the Prophet Muhammad.

This is even as he has described extremism as a cancer that needs to be attacked early before it grows malignantly out of control and harm the society.

According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari in his goodwill message to the Muslim Ummah on the occasion of the Maulud celebration to commemorate the birthday of the …

Banditry, kidnappings, and killings in the North

May 4, 2019 11:25 am

By Odumodu Gbulagu

In the times past when the kidnapping scourge was at it’s peak in the Southeast and South South geopolitical zones of Nigeria, the two zones were mocked by the rest of the country and the Igbos especially were accused of turning everything including kidnapping to money making venture.
Now the menace is a thing of the past in both zones, and it has become a lucrative and budding business in the unlikeliest of places: the Northern part of the country and
Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara and Abuja have become the hotbeds.