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Tragedy As 5 Die In Bauchi Boat Mishap

Tragedy As 5 Die In Bauchi Boat Mishap

September 15, 2022 5:16 am

No fewer than five persons were reportedly killed after the canoe that was conveying them capsized in Jama’are local government area of Bauchi State.

Hon Saleh Muhammed who is the member representing Jama’are in the Bauchi State House of Assembly made this disclosure while speaking to reporters in Bauchi.

He said the victims lost their lives after hours of heavy downpour and windstorms in the area which also left many houses and farmlands destroyed.

The lawmaker decried the devastation caused by floods in his constituency, revealing that no fewer than 500 houses were destroyed and about 1,000 families displaced.…

Cross River Rerun: Security Rescue Abducted Corps Members

January 25, 2020 1:16 pm
Six National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) members have been abducted and elections materials meant for Afafanyi and Igbonigoni House of Assembly re-run elections hijacked mid-sea along Etighidi River in Cross River State.

THISDAY  gathered that thugs suspected to be armed hijacked elections materials and abducted the INEC adhoc staff as they were about taking materials to Afafanyi and Igbonigoni wards for the rerun election on Saturday.

An eyewitness who declined giving his name alleged that the Corps members were accompanying the materials when suspected thugs allegedly abducted them and seized the materials.

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Kaduna: Police Kill 2 Bandits, Rescue 20 Kidnapped Victims

January 23, 2020 5:23 am
Some passengers numbering about eight abducted on Wednesday afternoon along Kaduna-Zaria highway have been rescued by the police.

Also rescued were three workers of Airtel Communications Company abducted on Tuesday, and nine others kidnapped on Jan. 14 when bandits attacked the convoy of the Emir of Potiskum.

THISDAY had reported that gunmen attacked Alhaji Umaru Bubaram, killing five of his aides along Kaduna-Zaria highway.

Umaru was on his way to Zaria when the attack occurred, but was, however, released.

The police, however, said that in the Wednesday’s attack, two of the bandits were shot dead and all the eight abducted

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Police Yet to Rescue Lecturer 4 Months After Abduction

December 1, 2019 3:53 am

Security operatives in Kaduna and Katsina States have not been able to rescue a lecturer with Federal University, Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), Abubakar Idris four months after he was abducted, THISDAY checks revealed.

Idris, an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Languages and Linguistics, was abducted by yet-to-be identified gunmen on August 2 at his residence in Shagari Low-cost, Kaduna, Kaduna State.

Since his abduction on August 2, THISDAY checks revealed that the captors of the lecturers had neither called for ransom nor disclosed any reason for the victim’s abduction.

However, a family member yesterday said immediately after the scenario, they reported …

SA: Rescue Team Searching For Boy, 9, Swept Away By Flood

November 12, 2019 4:54 pm
As heavy rains lashed parts of KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday afternoon, rescue services were frantically searching for a schoolboy who was swept into a flooded river.

IPSS Rescue’s Dylan Meyerick said teams were searching the Nonoti River in Darnall, on the KZN north coast, for the missing nine-year-old

“Rescue teams have been in the water … looking for a nine-year-old who was walking home from school and got washed off a low-level bridge,” he said.

Meyerick said rescuers had called for a sniffer dog to help them.

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Police Rescue 15 Inmates Chained In Lagos Prayer House

Police Rescue 15 Inmates Chained In Lagos Prayer House

November 1, 2019 3:07 am

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command yesterday said they have rescued fifteen inmates chained in a prayer house being used as detention camp.

The police in a statement signed by the command spokesman, Bala Elkana , Deputy Superintendent of Police said they acted on information from a reliable source to rescue the inmates.

According to him, “A team of detectives from Isheri Osun Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Chike Ibe stormed a prayer House used as detention camp at No 26 Alafia Street, Oriofe Ijegun Isheri, where the Prophet, Sunday Joseph Ojo ‘m’ 58years old …

Police Rescue Abducted ACP, Arrest Two Suspects

Police Rescue Abducted ACP, Arrest Two Suspects

October 21, 2019 2:16 am
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF)  on Sunday’s night announced that it has rescued abducted an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Musa Rabo who was kidnapped over the weekend. 
According to the post on  Twitter handle of the force @Police NG at 11:05 pm on Sunday night, Rabo was rescued on unhurt.

The post read:” Musa Rabo abducted over the weekend was today 20th October 2019 rescued unhurt”. The officer was successfully rescued this evening by a combined team of Police operatives from Kaduna, Niger and Zone 7 Command Headquarters Abuja, backed-up by members of the elite Special Forces of the
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Troops Rescue Four More Abducted Students In Kaduna

Troops Rescue Four More Abducted Students In Kaduna

October 15, 2019 5:48 am

Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have rescued the remaining four students of Government Day Secondary School Gwagwada in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who were abducted on their way to school on Oct. 10.

The Deputy Director Army Public Relations Officer,1 Division Nigerian Army Kaduna, Col Ezindu Idimah told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday night that the students have been handed over to their joyful parents at Gurmi village.

NAN recalls that bandits terrorizing Kaduna/Abuja highway on October 10, abducted 10 students of the school while on their way to school.

However, the quick intervention …

Rescue Underway As Typhoon Hagibis Kills 11 In Japan

Rescue Underway As Typhoon Hagibis Kills 11 In Japan

October 13, 2019 1:47 am

The military in Japan scrambled Sunday to rescue people trapped by flooding after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped across the country, killing at least 11 people and leaving more than a dozen missing.

The storm’s heavy rain triggered deadly landslides and caused rivers to burst their banks. The destruction forced Rugby World Cup organisers to cancel the third match of the tournament though the key Japan-Scotland clash will go ahead.

By Sunday morning, the significantly weakened storm had moved back off land, but severe flooding was reported in central Japan’s Nagano, where a burst levee sent water from the Chikuma river …

BREAKING: Police rescue toddler abducted from MFM

May 6, 2019 9:40 am

The police in Lagos have rescued a two-year-old child abducted from the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Church (MFM) regional headquarters in Agege in March.

Baby Esther Ojo was recovered in an operation led by the Igando Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Taiwo Kasumu, a Chief Superintendent (CSP).

The police also arrested the kidnappers, Nwaigbo Magnus and Sixtus Osunwoke Egwim, who were waiting to collect ransom at the location they asked the baby’s parents to bring the money.

It was gathered that the police have been on their trail since they established contact with the kid’s parents Mr and Mrs Oladipo …

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