IGP: We're going after IPOB/ESN leaders, financiers

…killers of 100 Benue indigenes have been arrested

Lawrence Olaoye Abuja

IGP, Baba

The newly Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Usman Baba, yesterday vowed to go after the financiers and leaders of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN).

US alerts Nigerians as traffic robberies soar in Lagos

Taiwo Jimoh

IGP, Baba

Two journalists, Stanley Akpunonu and Ngozi Egenuka, working with The Guardian Newspaper in Lagos State, recently received their baptismal of fire in the hands of traffic armed robbers, who seemed to have taken over the entire Lagos State metropolis.

Suspects: We were hired to attack ABU, kidnap students, lecturers

Juliana Francis

A suspected kidnapper, Abubakar Yakuku, 24, has revealed how he and some of his cronies were hired by a former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria (ABU), Kaduna State, to spread fear and kidnap students and lecturers of the institution for ransom.

NAPTIP smashes child trafficking syndicate, rescues children

Juliana Francis

Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), have rescued four children from a child trafficking syndicate and arrested a 30 years old woman, identified as Mrs. Blessing Nnena Eze, who allegedly specialised in using the children to beg for alms at the Federal Capital Territory.

Lawyer: My abductors broke my legs, threw me into shallow grave

Kenneth Ofoma, ENUGU

A legal practitioner, Barrister Amos Ogbonnaya, has given a chilling account of how he was abducted, tortured, forced into a shallow grave and his two legs broken before his miraculous survival.

NAPTIP quizzes Lebanese over alleged defilement of minors, child pornographic

Juliana Francis

A crack team of investigators from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have started quizzing a Lebanese on his alleged involvement in the defilement of some minors in Jos, the Plateau State and also using them for pornographic activities.

Anambra election: Governor Obiano urged to checkmate insecurity

Juliana Francis

The President of Association of Anambra State Development Unions (AASDU), Lagos State, Sir Amechi Ebeledike, has urged the governor of  Anambra State, Mr Willie Obiano to take proactive measures to tame any form of insecurity, which may mar the scheduled governorship election comes November 6.

Bloodletting: Civilians in the shadow of death

Terrorism, banditry create 13.5m out of schoolchildren

 

Internally Displaced Persons

Since the start of the insurgency, followed by other armed conflicts in different parts of the country, civilians, especially women and children, have been raped, maimed, killed and thousands displaced from their homes. In this report, JULIANA FRANCIS looks at the need for protection of civilians through birthing legal framework

Three detainees regain freedom after 8 years detention without trial

Juliana Francis

Three Nigerians have finally regained their freedom after being on awaiting trial for eight years.

Criminals smile to the bank as kidnappings escalate in Ogun

Olufemi Adediran, Abeokuta

IGP, Alkali Baba

“I went through hell before I could secure the release of my boy. I would not even wish for my enemy to experience what I passed through when my son was kidnapped.”

When Children Become Bargaining Chips For Kidnappers, Bandits

 By Juliana Francis

IGP, Alkali Baba

A look of despair crossed the face of Reverend Gabriel Oyediji as he said with resignation: “It is sad to note that the Nigerian child has never been so vulnerable and so insecure in the history of our great nation, Nigeria. Never before has the psyche of the Nigerian child so badly affected by insecurity and horrific scenes he sees every day.”

NAPTIP DG worries over Nigerian migrants dying on Mediterranean Sea

Juliana Francis

The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Imaan Sulaiman Ibrahim, has expressed sadness over the incessant mishap involving hundreds of irregular migrants on the Mediterranean Sea enroute Europe describing it as huge loss that could be avoided.

Drama as family accuse GO of holding daughter, ‘captive’ in Lagos

Taiwo Jimoh

 

The General Overseer of Fountain of Hope Deliverance and Prayer Church, Pastor Samuel Aramede, has been accused of keeping one of her church members identified as PraiseGod Philemon captive in his home.

Parents of triplet beg Nigerians for assistance

Juliana Francis

A worried couple in Niger State, Mr. Abdulkadir Muhammad and his wife, Amina Muhammad, blessed with triplet, have decided to swallow pride and beg Nigerians for assistance.

Security guards collaborate with robbers, kidnappers to raid Lagos community

Taiwo Jimoh

 

An African adage says when a farmer plants groundnuts on a farm invested with ground squirrels, it is expected the squirrels would have their fill before the harvest period.

Gunshots rock Lagos as police kill two cyclists

Residents of Ogba in Lagos State scampered for safety between Thursday night and today morning (Friday) as sporadic gunshot rented the atmosphere.