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The Chief of Defence Staff Seeks Holistic Solution to Insecurity in Nigeria
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE ROUNDTABLE: Insecurity is Nigeria’s most difficult challenge – Shettima The dialogue to find peace and security in Nigeria continued on February 23, at the Musa Yar’adua Cenre, Abuja, during the 21st Century Chronicle Roundtable titled “Going for broke: Fighting insecurity in Nigeria.” General Lucky Irabor, chief of Defence Staff, and keynote speaker, […] More
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Three Suspected Kidnappers Terrorising Benin- Auchi Road Killed in Gun Battle with Security Operatives
Security operatives comprising the police, army, and vigilante men on Wednesday engaged some dare-devil kidnappers in a gun duel along the notorious Benin- Auchi axis of Edo State, killing three of them. The shoot-out occurred at Okwo, in Ehor, before the university town of Ekpoma in Uhunmwode local government area of the state. According to […] More
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How Generosity Saved Two Cement Company Officers From Kidnap
Two suspects who plotted the kidnap of their bosses in a cement company in Okpella, Edo State, are now in police net and would soon be arraigned. The suspects, Obi Bright, and Favour Ede, according to sources in Edo State Police Command, allegedly connived with a gang of kidnappers in Kogi State to abduct for […] More
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Sowore: How I Escaped from Kidnappers’ Den – Rescued Rev. Sister
Contrary to the claim by the Edo State Police Command that it rescued one of the kidnap victims out of the five abducted around Okada on Saturday where the younger brother of Omoyele Sowore, Olajide was killed, the victim, Emmanuella Anyanwu, said to be a Catholic reverend sister, on Monday told newsmen that she indeed […] More
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Olajide Sowore Not Target of Kidnappers, Was Victim of Circumstance – Edo Police
The Edo State Police Command on Sunday explained that Felix Olajide Sowore, younger brother of the Sahara Reporters publisher, and convener of #Revolution Now, Omoyele Sowore, who was killed in the early hours of Saturday at the Okada axis of Edo State by some rampaging kidnappers, was just a victim of circumstance. At a press […] More
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Obaseki Commends Edo Vigilante for Gallantry in Dislodging Kidnappers, Donates 15 Operational Vehicles
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has commended members of Edo State Community Vigilante Security Network for their bravery in confronting kidnappers in the Ahor axis of Aduwawa By-pass along Benin-Auchi Expressway. The Security Network, in collaboration with the Edo State Police Command and other security agencies had on Monday rescued seven kidnap victims and […] More
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Double ‘Wahala For Dead Body as Brother of Deceased is Abducted and Hearse Conveying Corpse Runs into Ditch in Edo
[responsivevoice] …Kidnappers Demand N5m Ransom. It was a tragic and abrupt end of the homeward journey of a deceased Enugu indigene whose remains was being conveyed to his home town from Lagos for burial as the hearse was attacked in Benin City, Edo State, and his younger brother accompanying the corpse kidnapped. The journey had […] More
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Police, Assassins, Kidnappers on the Prowl in Port Harcourt, Kill 4 Abduct 2
[responsivevoice] At least four persons had been killed at the last count in a new wave of killings and assassinations sweeping through Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. Four people were gunned down in different parts of the city since Thursday last week when residents of the city began to notice the strange killings. […] More
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Two Suspected Kidnappers Burnt in Osun (Photo)
[responsivevoice] Two unidentified women suspected to be kidnappers working for ritualists were on Thursday afternoon caught in the act and set ablaze in Iwo, Iwo Local Council of Osun state. This came on the heels of investigation into the upsurge in missing persons in the town by the police. According to the police spokesperson in […] More
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Security Operatives Turn The Heat on Criminals in Edo
In order to restore sanity, law and order to Edo State which had been under siege by criminal elements, the Edo State Joint Security Taskforce has embarked on raid of criminal hideouts to smoke out kidnappers who had been terrorizing the state, especially in the notorious Upper Sakponba area and coastal communities. The raid which […] More
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Hassana, Abducted Widow of Ex-Edo Speaker, Driver Regain Freedom
Report just coming in say the wife of late former Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Zakawanu Garuba has been freed by her captors. Hassana Garuba, a lawyer, was abducted on Saturday afternoon by kidnappers in Kabba area of Kogi State while conveying her husband’s remains to Auchi in Edo State for burial. The […] More
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The Invisible President And Our Killing Fields
The statistics are getting grimmer and there is no end in sight to the rampant violence and mindless killings that blight the landscape. So many parts of the country have become killing fields. And nobody is safe anymore, anywhere. From the terrorism of Boko Haram and rampaging armed bandits to the killer herdsmen and kidnappers, […] More