Tag Archives: KIDNAPPING

More than 100 kidnapped children have been released from captivity in Nigeria, an education official told dpa on Friday. Umar Idris, the director of the Islamic Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school in the city of Tegina in the north-western state of Niger, confirmed the news, but it was unclear whether the …

Prince Osei, a 38-year-old driver, who is accused of kidnapping his two kids has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Osei is said to have picked the kids after close of school on March 23, this year, and failed to tell the police, the whereabouts of the two children. Appearing …

  Tamale-based social media sensation, Shatta Bundle is reported to be treading towards having a brush with the law as the family of a 15-year-old girl is threatening to take him on for allegedly kidnapping and raping their daughter. Shatta Bundle recently shared a video of himself in bed with …

A Sekondi District Magistrate Court “B” presided over by Her Worship Rosemary Edith Hayford has convicted two persons for faking their kidnapping at Sekondi. Even though the court convicted the two, Wilhelmina Aidoo aged 18 and Ransford Mensah alias Rapture aged 22 on their own plea, the magistrate deferred their …

An 18-year-old final year student of Eguafo Senior High school (SHS) in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region is in the grips of the Police for kidnapping. The Police is also on a manhunt for two other accomplices who are currently on the run. The student, whose name …

A girl by name Abigail Addy is reported missing since Friday, February 28, 2020 in Tamale, Northern Region. She is a resident of Poloyafong, a suburb of the regional capital. According to the police, frantic investigations have been launched into the case as it appears to be one of kidnapping. …

The Techiman Circuit court presided over by Alexander Graham, has sentenced two persons to 10 years imprisonment for kidnapping a 10-year old boy. The convicts received the sentence with hard labor. They are to spend the years behind bars at the Sunyani Prisons. It will be recalled that the Yendi …

A 19-year-old, Beatrice Naa Lamley, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping. Beatrice, a mobile money vendor, on June 24 this year, conspired with three others to fake her kidnapping and demanded GH?10,000 as ransom from her family. A statement released Wednesday by the …

A 13-year-old boy, in an interview with Adom News, has narrated how he mistakenly helped a kidnapper at Gomoa in the Central region and got kidnapped. According to him, the incident happened when he decided to assist a man who was carrying multiple loads in the Kasoa market, but was forcibly …

Four Turkish nationals have been rescued a week after being kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s western state of Kwara, police say. The four, who are construction workers, were taken from a bar last week. The abductors had demanded a $1m (£800,000) ransom but police say no money was paid and …