The National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, on Monday, April 15, 2024, received 22 abducted students and staff of Federal University, Gusau in Zamfara, who were rescued after 207 days in captivity. The victims, comprising 15 students and seven workers of the university, were abducted from the university in September 2023. According to the NSA, the rescue operation was coordinated by the National Counter-Terrorism Centre, NCTC, on Sunday Mr Ribadu who received the rescued victims on Monday …
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The Plateau State Police Command in its relentless efforts to get rid of criminal elements in the State, has trailed a gang of notorious kidnappers to their den, dislodged them, rescued six (6) kidnapped victims and gunned down one kidnapper. A statement released by Alfred Alabo, spokesperson of the command, says on November 1 the police received credible intelligence about a horrible kidnap incident, that some unidentified suspected kidnappers invaded Gwalada village in Toro LGA of Bauchi State and …
A law graduate, Benkingsley Nwashara, who rescued a 2-year-old girl abandoned by a mentally-ill mother in Enugu State, has narrated how three female police officers allegedly refused to help when he brought the child to the station. Recall that Nwashara rescued the child at a market in Agbani town, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state in June 2022. The child was battered by heavy rainfall a day earlier while market women made no attempt to …
Danish aid worker, Anja Ringgren Loven has shared new photos of a young girl, Mary, who was rescued by her team 9 years ago after being branded a witch, tortured and abandoned in Akwa Ibom state. “Can we all agree that children are not witches ?! David Emmanuel Umem and I rescued Mary more than 9 years ago. She was accused of being a witch. We found her half naked in a bush where she was hiding because the local …
A nursing mother and her baby have been rescued by security operatives after being kidnapped by gunmen who invaded Tudun Mun tsira village of Zangon Shanu, Samaru in Sabon Gari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Daily Trust reported that an elderly man, Mallam Abubakar Garba Aliyu, who was said to have relocated to the area recently, was also kidnapped along with his son, Salimi Abubakar, in Hayin Liman of the same area. The attack was carried out in the early …
A boy named Daniel has been rescued from his madam after he was subjected to horrific physical abuse just one month into his stay with the woman. The boy, from Jos, said his mother is dead and his father is in the village, so he was brought from the North to Lagos and handed over to a woman named Onyebuchi in Surulere, Lagos, so that he can work for her and get sent to school in return. However, …