Tag: #kidnap

Jul

18

2025

Police Operatives Nab Kidnappers, Rescue 31 Victims In Taraba, Edo State

Police Operatives Nab Kidnappers, Rescue 31 Victims In Taraba, Edo State In a sustained effort against banditry and kidnapping, the Nigeria Police Force has again recorded significant breakthroughs in Taraba and Edo States, successfully rescuing thirty-one (31) kidnapped victims in two separate coordinated operations, National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP can report. In Edo State on Friday, July 11th, 2025, at about 7:20 pm, police operatives of the state command responded to an attack along the Fugar-Agenebode road in Etsako East Local Government Area, where suspected kidnappers ambushed commuters, resulting in the death of two persons and the…

Police Rescue Kidnapped Hostages, Arrest 17 For Murder

CRIME#kidnap, #Murder

Police Rescue Kidnapped Hostages, Arrest 17 For Murder *As IGP Reiterates Commitment to Public Safety In a remarkable display of courage and commitment, Police Operatives attached to the Imo State Command successfully executed a daring rescue operation that led to the safe liberation of 4 kidnapped hostages. The operation was carried out on Saturday, January 4th 2025, after the operatives received a distress call reporting the abduction of 4 persons in Umuokanne, Ohaji LGA, Imo State. The police operatives swiftly swung into action, locating the criminal hideout and engaging the kidnappers in a fierce gun-duel, during which 2 of the kidnappers…

Rebuttal: Ikwuano DPO selflessly facilitated the search for abducted Osinachi

METRO, NEWS, OPINION#kidnap, #Oloko, #Osinachichukwu

Sequel to a recent report by an online newspaper alleging that the DPO of Isiala Oboro Police Division, in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, took a kind of gratification to facilitate the rescue of a kidnapped Master Osinachi Chukwu who was abducted in Oloko. We write to put some records straight on the issue, albeit, to clear some misconceptions and misleading information from an anonymous source which accused the DPO of demanding for huge sum of money. According to a subsequent independent investigation by our Correspondent, the DPO in his magnanimity was committed to rescuing the child by…