Two Pastors Kidnapped In Kaduna Found Alive, One Dead

Daily Trust Newspaper reports that the three Pastors abducted along Kaduna-Abuja highway last week Monday have been released by their abductors.

UPDATED: Army Colonel Kidnapped In Kaduna Found Killed By Assailants

Premium Times Newspaper has it that the Nigerian Army on Tuesday confirmed its officer, a Colonel kidnapped in Kaduna on Sunday has been killed by his abductors.

Unsung Kidnap Incidents in Nigeria: A Case of Slow Police Reaction?

On the heels of the recent polices heroics in rescuing the abducted Ikorodu school girls, Gboyega Alaka probes what looks like the force’s slow reaction, especially when the kidnap cases don’t receive huge media and public outcry.

Ex Niger Delta Militants Invade Lagos…Responsible For Robbery, Kidnapping Spree

Punch Newspaper investigations has revealed there are strong indications that jobless Ijaw/Ilaje ex-militants as well as militiamen may have invaded Lagos, and are responsible for the various recent acts of kidnappings, robberies and other criminal activities in Lagos state.

Update: Lagos Schoolgirls’ Kidnappers Demand N60 Million Ransom

TVC reports that kidnappers of three abducted female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu, Lagos state on Wednesday demanded the sum of 20 million naira each to secure their release.

Gunmen Kidnap Former Central Bank of Nigeria Director, DSS Officer

A former Director of Foreign Operations at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Joseph Ogedegbe has reportedly been kidnapped by some unidentified gunmen.

Gunmen Kidnap 3 Female Students From A Private High School In Lagos

No fewer than three students of Babington Macaulay ‎Junior Seminary School, a private school in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, have been abducted by some gunmen.

Cultural Intelligence, Security Awareness, Tips For Expats Coming To Nigeria

Preamble:

Notwithstanding a battered image, negative publicity occasioned by unremitting Boko Haram terrorism and insurgency, sporadic Fulani herdsmen attacks, proliferation of kidnap for ransom and extortion, pervasive corruption and advanced fee fraud or ‘’419’’ narratives by few unscrupulous Nigerians, far from it that Nigeria is a bastion of instability, insecurity, crime and fraud. It’s said that in every twelve, there’s a Judas; it is not usual that there will be bad and desperate folks in a country of 170 million people, where many suffer in the midst of abundance. The goings-on, hitches inherent in Nigeria are largely man-made and characteristic of a disparate body politic trying to negotiate itself into nationhood. The gospel truth and good news is that Nigeria is imbued with great potentials and many Nigerians are sanguine, morally antiseptic, benevolent, and very hospitable.

Kidnappers Abduct Nonagenarian Monarch In Delta State, Second In A Month

GUNMEN shooting sporadically on Friday abducted the 96-year-old Odio-ologobo (traditional ruler) of Olomoro Kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, HRM Josiah Umukoro Aghaza I, 24 days after Fulani herdsmen kidnapped and murdered the Obi of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of the state.

Security Mapping: Guide To Threats, Crime And Terrorism Hotbeds In Nigeria (Part 1) (Updated)

Aim: This project is designed to map or collate salient risks, threats, safety concerns, atrocious crimes, terrorism or violence extremism hotspots representative of Nigeria’s cities and 36 states of the country.  This research became exigent given the paucity of up-to-date official crime survey and statistics in Nigeria.

Former Presidential Aspirant Kidnapped in Kogi State, Abductors Demand N40 Million Ransom

A former Presidential candidate and National Chairman of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima has been reported kidnapped at Obajana in Kogi State.

Boko Haram Militants Kidnap Teenage Girls, kill Four, Soldier in Borno, NE Nigeria

Boko Haram militants kidnapped unspecified number of teenage girls and killed no fewer than four persons in Bam village, about 7 kilometers away from Buratai village, the home town of Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai.