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Nigerian traditional monarch shot dead and wife kidnapped

Armed men have shot dead a traditional ruler, and kidnapped his wife plus one other person in south-western Nigeria, authorities say. The attackers stormed the palace of Segun Aremu, a retired army general and monarch whose official title is the Olukoro of Koro, on Thursday night. It is not clear …

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Police rescue kidnapped journalist

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on March 11 rescued a journalist, Oduneye Olusegun, who was kidnapped by some gunmen in the Mobalufon area of Ijebu Ode on March 9. The journalist, who was coming from Abeokuta was kidnapped in the Mobalufon area in his Toyota Camry car at …

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How A Son Kidnapped His Father And Collected GH¢57,000 As Ransom

The Kwara state police command has arrested a man named Issa Naigheti on charges that he kidnapped his father and demanded N2.5m in exchange. Ajayi Okasanmi, a spokesman for the command, said that officers from the Kwara police command’s anti-kidnapping team caught the suspect in the Kambi neighborhood of Ilorin. …

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Dangote Cement factory workers kidnapped

Armed men affiliated with Ethiopia’s rebel Oromo Liberation Army have been blamed for kidnapping more than a dozen staff working for the Dangote Cement factory – owned by Nigerian billionaire and richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote. Two officials of the company told the BBC the company service bus was …

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22 farmers kidnapped near Nigeria’s capital

Gunmen have kidnapped 22 farmers from their fields just outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja, local police said Friday, in the latest wave of mass abductions in the country. Heavily-armed criminals known locally as bandits frequently attack rural areas with poor security in the northwest and central regions, but mass kidnappings are …

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