A journalist with popular Nigerian news television platform, Channels TV, has been abducted by some unknown gunmen in Imo State. It was gathered that the victim, Tope Kutiyi, was kidnapped in the early hours of Monday, April 11, 2016, at his residence in Federal Housing Estate, Umuguma. It is still unclear why Kutiyi, who is…
The alleged abductor of a 14-year-old teenager from Bayelsa State has been taken to the Police headquarters in Abuja. Spokesman to Zone 1 of the Force, Rabilu Ringim told Vanguard in a telephone conversation that the suspect, Yunusa Yellow, was flown to Abuja on Tuesday morning alongside the victim, Ese Oruru. According to him, the…
Following public criticisms that trailed the abduction of a 14-year-old girl from Bayelsa State allegedly by a Kano-based man, the Emir of Kano, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, has ordered the girl to be returned to her parents. The girl, Ese Oruru, was allegedly kidnapped by one Yunusa of Kura local government area of Kano State about…
The former Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly kidnapped earlier this week by some gunmen in Abuja has been released. Victor Olabimtan, who was abducted barely few days after he declared he intention to contest in the governorship election in Ondo State in 2016, was seized on the street of Abuja. His family…
Gunmen have abducted one Madam Ebifeghe Dikoro on Thursday in Bayelsa State, Aproko247 has learnt. The victim is the mother of Wilberforce Igiri, who is the running mate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the state, Timipre Sylva. She was reportedly kidnapped by some unknown hoodlums and whisked away to an undisclosed…
A monarch in Kogi State has been kidnapped by some unknown gunmen in the state, Aproko247 has learnt. The victim, His Royal Highness Adebisi Obademi, is the paramount ruler of Apaa Bunu in Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State. He was said to have been seized by the hoodlums, who were reportedly masked, at…
The kidnapped wife of Deputy Managing Director of Sun newspaper, Steve Nwosu, Toyin, has been released. The woman was freed on Thursday morning by her abductors after about three days in their den. Her kidnap had raised reactions from a cross section of Nigerians, who appealed to the kidnappers to free her unconditionally. It was…
A top lecturer in the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, Imo State, Dr (Mrs) Felicia Eze, has been kidnapped, Aproko247 has learnt. Eze was abducted on Monday morning at her residence in Ihiagwa in Owerri, the state capital by some unidentified gunmen. The victim is the head of Information Management Technology department of the…
A journalist working with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, has been kidnapped by some unknown gunmen. The victim, Ms Chide Okpara, is the Imo State correspondent of the Federal Government owned news agency. She was abducted on Wednesday night just as she got home from work. Our reporter learnt that Chide was seized by…
Some unknown gunmen have abducted an employee of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Sanusi Garba Noma. He was abducted on Thursday morning in Bauchi by the kidnappers. It was learnt that the hoodlums stormed a mosque Sanusi, 33, went to observe the early morning Islamic prayers, when he was kidnapped. The mosque is located…