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Security Forces Nab 13 Suspects, Seize Arms in Edo Forests Senator Imasuen inspects facilities at National Fistula Centre Benin

Security Forces Nab 13 Suspects, Seize Arms in Edo Forests

Korede Abdullah February 8, 2026

BENIN CITY, Nigeria – Joint security forces arrest 13 suspected criminals and recover arms, drugs and illicit...

Edo Charges AAU Lecturer, Ex-Chairman with Murder After Protest Interview AAU lecturer and ex-council chairman charged after Ekpoma protest

Edo Charges AAU Lecturer, Ex-Chairman with Murder After Protest Interview

Mirian Gom February 8, 2026

BENIN CITY, Nigeria – The Edo State Government files fresh criminal charges against a senior lecturer of...

Forests of Fear: How Nigeria’s Green Belts Became Kidnap Kingdoms Nigeria’s Kidnapping Crisis: How Forests Became Criminal Havens

Forests of Fear: How Nigeria’s Green Belts Became Kidnap Kingdoms

Oluwafunbi Bello February 5, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – As night falls across Nigeria’s hinterlands, fear travels faster than light. Roads empty early....

Kwara Deploys Forest Guards, Warns Terrorists Face Total Crackdown Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq inspecting newly deployed Forest Guards

Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq inspecting newly deployed Forest Guards

Kwara Deploys Forest Guards, Warns Terrorists Face Total Crackdown

Korede Abdullah December 28, 2025

ILORIN, Nigeria – Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq declares that terrorists, kidnappers and illegal miners now have...

FCT Police Arrest 160 Suspects, Lose Six Officers On Duty Recovered stolen vehicles displayed by the FCT Police Command.

FCT Police Arrest 160 Suspects, Lose Six Officers On Duty

Oluwatobi Adu December 20, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Police in Nigeria’s capital record major gains against crime, arresting 160 suspects linked to...

Akwa Ibom Court Sentences Four Kidnappers to Death Federal High Court building in Osogbo where arrest order against ex-INEC Chairman was issued

Federal High Court building in Osogbo where arrest order against ex-INEC Chairman was issued

Akwa Ibom Court Sentences Four Kidnappers to Death

Mirian Gom December 19, 2025

UYO, Nigeria – An Akwa Ibom State High Court sentences four convicted kidnappers to death by hanging...

When the Roads Go Quiet: How Fear Hijacked Nigeria’s Christmas Homecoming A driver with Power Belongs to God, Augustine Fortune

When the Roads Go Quiet: How Fear Hijacked Nigeria’s Christmas Homecoming

Oluwafunbi Bello December 19, 2025

(By Oluwafunbi Bello and Edino Cornelius) December is supposed to be loud in Nigeria. It is meant...

When Fear Reaches the Capital: How Banditry Is Choking Lives, Healthcare on Abuja’s Doorstep Residents fleeing homes after night raid near Abuja outskirts

Residents fleeing homes after night raid near Abuja outskirts

When Fear Reaches the Capital: How Banditry Is Choking Lives, Healthcare on Abuja’s Doorstep

Juliet Jacob December 14, 2025

(By Juliet Jacob, and Hussaini Ibrahim) Once, Abuja was spoken of in hushed admiration — a carefully...

Police Seal Facilities Over Suspected Organ Harvesting Police seal facility over suspected organ harvesting in Imo

Police Seal Facilities Over Suspected Organ Harvesting

Korede Abdullah December 8, 2025

OWERRI, Nigeria – Police in Imo State seal a hotel and private mortuary after discovering decomposed and...

DSS Foils Medical Supply Route for Kidnappers as Kwara Govt Raises Alarm 38 Kidnapped Kwara Worshippers Reunited With Families After Joint Security Rescue

38 Kidnapped Kwara Worshippers Reunited With Families After Joint Security Rescue

DSS Foils Medical Supply Route for Kidnappers as Kwara Govt Raises Alarm

Juliet Jacob December 6, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Kwara State Government has warned of an increasingly sophisticated network of kidnapping gangs...

Kidnapping

Security Forces Nab 13 Suspects, Seize Arms in Edo Forests

Edo Charges AAU Lecturer, Ex-Chairman with Murder After Protest Interview

Forests of Fear: How Nigeria’s Green Belts Became Kidnap Kingdoms

Kwara Deploys Forest Guards, Warns Terrorists Face Total Crackdown

FCT Police Arrest 160 Suspects, Lose Six Officers On Duty

Akwa Ibom Court Sentences Four Kidnappers to Death

When the Roads Go Quiet: How Fear Hijacked Nigeria’s Christmas Homecoming

When Fear Reaches the Capital: How Banditry Is Choking Lives, Healthcare on Abuja’s Doorstep

Police Seal Facilities Over Suspected Organ Harvesting

DSS Foils Medical Supply Route for Kidnappers as Kwara Govt Raises Alarm

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