Kidnapping

The abduction of hundreds of children from an elementary school in northwestern Nigeria in March brought renewed attention to a kidnapping-for-ransom crisis that has long wracked Africa’s most-populous nation. The problem first made…

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Thursday sought the urgent intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari in the wanton killing and kidnapping of people in the South West region so as to prevent reprisal attack that could lead to…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has downplayed the cases of kidnapping in Nigeria, saying they were sometimes exaggerated for political effect. Mr Osinbajo was addressing Nigerians based in New York on Monday when he was confronted with…

Three academic staff of Shehu Idris College of Health, Makarfi, Kaduna State, have been kidnapped. The victims were kidnapped on Sunday while travelling to Makarfi from Zaria in Kaduna. Among the kidnapped lecturers are two women,…