An eight-year-old boy had been kidnapped in Kenya by his stepfather who demanded a ransom from his wife before releasing the boy. The mother reported the matter of the missing child at Embakasi police station as she found a note by the husband demanding a ransom to release the minor. …
Read More »Nigeria: gunmen release dozens of abducted children
Dozens of children who were kidnapped by gunmen in north-west Nigeria nearly two weeks ago have been freed. In a video, the governor of Zamfara state is shown with some of the male and female students from a state-run secondary school in Maradun District, BBC News reports. They were seized …
Read More »Nigeria: three people abducted in the farm of Obasanjo
Three people working on a farm owned by Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo in south-western Ogun state have been kidnapped by gunmen. Ogun police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the abductions. The gunmen opened fire on a vehicle transporting the three, before abducting them and running into a forest, BBC News …
Read More »Nigeria: Niger state official kidnapped by armed gang
A senior government official in Niger state, central Nigeria, has been kidnapped, an official statement has said. Mohammed Sani Idris who is Niger state’s commissioner for information, was abducted from his home by an armed gang at about 01:00 local time on Monday morning, according to a local government statement. …
Read More »Italian ambassador killed in Democratic Republic of Congo
Italy’s foreign ministry says Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the east of the country. An Italian military policeman also died in the incident near the town of Kanyamahoro. Officials at the Virunga …
Read More »Why are kidnappings becoming increasingly frequent in Nigeria ?
Niger state where the incident occurred shares a boundary with the FCT, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, which is the most protected territory in Nigeria. So the government has acknowledged that it knew about this attack and security chiefs have been dispatched to Kigara Niger state to coordinate the rescue …
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