Unidentified gunmen have abducted the Benue State chairman of National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO), Aronzi Zougu, and the secretary, Sunday Abah. Mr. Zougu is the chief executive officer of Sylikaa filling stations in Makurdi. The Guardian gathered from a victim’s family source that the victims were travelling to Owerri, Imo State, on Monday…

A legal practitioner, Mr. Adeola Adebayo, has been kidnapped by suspected kidnappers in Erio-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The lawyer and his family members were said to be travelling back from Osogbo when they were attacked by unknown gunmen. His father, a lawyer and lecturer at Ekiti State University, his mother, sister and wife were released, while…

Gunmen struck yesterday morning, killing a popular maize merchant, Alhaji Nasiru Maimasara, and abducted his 15-year-old daughter, Aisha at Gachi quarters in Kankia local government area of Katsina State. Narrating the incident, an eyewitness told newsmen, “when the gunmen invaded the area, they started shooting sporadically, while moving to the victims’ residence at Gachi quarters.…

The four reverend sisters of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM), who were kidnapped by unknown gunmen last week, have regained their freedom yesterday. But the two other sisters that were shot are still battling for their lives at an undisclosed hospital. The reverend sisters were coming from a burial in the East and were…

Two police officers’ wives and six others have been rescued from kidnappers’ den by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit in Rivers State. The rescued victims were passengers of a commercial bus, which was ambushed by hoodlums and diverted into a nearby forest around Ubima-Owerri Road while returning from Onitsha to Port…

Gunmen have abducted six children from a school in Bamenda, the capital of the northwestern, English-speaking Northwest region of Cameroon, a teacher there told AFP. "People attacked the high school yesterday (Friday) at 11:00 am (1000 GMT)," a teacher in Bamenda told AFP. "Six pupils have been abducted." The information was confirmed by a source…

Gloom befell the family of Mr. and Mrs. Onyedikachi Anthony, who hails from Ugbawka, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State as two of their children, four-year-old Chisom Anthony and two-year-old Chidindu, went missing for over a week now. The duo, Chisom and Chidindu, were allegedly taken away from their family house at Akwuke,…

The Chairman of Kiru Local Government in Kano State, Alhaji Nasiru Muazu has confirmed the abduction of his son, Babangida, by gunmen on Wednesday night. Muazu confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kano. He said that Babangida, aged 28 and father of two, was…

Armed bandits on Sunday evening attacked communities of Unguwar Dan-Baki, Sabon-Layi village in Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State. The attackers, who stormed the village at about 7:00p.m. killed three persons and abducted two nursing mothers, one of them an infant of eight days old and five men. Confirming the incident to newsmen in…

The Speaker, Zamfara House of Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji, has said that 15 persons have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Saturday in Maradun Local Government Area of the state. Rikiji told newsmen in Gusau on Sunday in Gusau that the security situation in the state called for serious review. He recalled the ugly incidences…

Mongolian authorities grounded a suspected Turkish air force jet Friday after witnesses said assailants snatched a Turkish man associated with a religious group Ankara has branded as terrorists. In recent weeks, Turkey's intelligence agency has conducted operations abroad against associates of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen -- who Ankara says was behind a 2016 failed coup.…

A man, Muyideen Fatai, who pretends to be a lunatic, has been arrested after he allegedly abducted one Aishat Tunde, aged 11, tied her mouth and was taking her to an unidentified destination before she was rescued at Total filling station on Ijanikin Road, Ijanikin area of Lagos State. The suspect was said to have…