Editorial
Widespread kidnapping and ransom payment deserve emergency response
2 years agoPolice officers outline suspected Boko Haram militants in Maiduguri, northest Nigeria, on July 18, 2018. Eight men have been arrested in connection with Boko Haram's abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria, police said on July 18, 2018. The 14 others were alleged to have been involved in logistics and planning suicide bomb attacks. / AFP PHOTO / AUDU MARTE
Pervasive incidents of kidnapping, including the recent one involving the now-rescued Mrs. Folashade Odumosu continue to heighten fears and uncertainties across Nigeria’s urban centres as well as in the hinterlands.