Abduction

Insecurity: Five Northern States Order Total Shutdown of Schools, Hostels, Varsity

A pervasive fear of student abductions by terrorist groups has prompted several state governments in Northern Nigeria to pre-emptively close primary and secondary...

Niger CAN Clarifies Abduction Figures: 215 Students, 12 Teachers Taken

The Niger State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has provided an update on the abduction of students and staff from...

No Abduction at Nasarawa School, Police Clarify

The Nasarawa State Police Command has dismissed claims that pupils of St. Peter’s Foundation Secondary School in Rukubi were abducted on Friday, describing...

Kebbi Abduction: Sen. Maidoki Gives Encouraging Update on Schoolgirls’ Whereabouts

Senator Garba Maidoki, representing Kebbi South, has confirmed that authorities know the location of the schoolgirls recently abducted from Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary...

US Lawmaker Condemns Kebbi Schoolgirls Abduction, Sparks Controversy

A US lawmaker, Riley Moore, has condemned the abduction of 25 schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State, Nigeria, and the...

25 Schoolgirls Abducted, Vice Principal Killed in Kebbi State Bandit Attack

A tragic security breach occurred at the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, where armed bandits abducted a minimum...

Breaking: Abducted Anambra commissioner, wife, regain freedom

After a day in captivity, the captors released Patrick Mba, the Anambra State Commissioner for Youth Development, and his wife. The commissioner and...

Editor of FirstNews, online platform, abducted from Lagos home by gunmen in military uniforms

Segun Olatunji, the Editor of FirstNews and the former Chief of the PUNCH’s Kaduna Bureau, was kidnapped by gunmen on Friday who appeared...

Just in: Benue Information Commissioner kidnapped

Benue Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Tourism, Mr Matthew Abo, has been abducted by some yet-to-be identified gunmen. Persecondnews gathered that the gunmen...

After four days, abducted Nasarawa State Ex-Deputy Governor, released

After a four-day sojourn in the kidnappers’ den, a former Nasarawa State Ex-Deputy Governor, Prof. Onje Gye-Wado, has breathed air of freedom. Persecondnews...

Freedom At Last For Abducted Doctors in Cross River State

  The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Cross River State branch, has confirmed the release of the two kidnapped doctors and two others kidnapped...

With indomitable courage, SERAP asks ICC to hold Buhari, governors, security agencies accountable for schoolchildren abductions

  …says such abductions amount to crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of ICC “Depriving children their right to education has severe consequences...

After months of respite, high-profile kidnappers relaunch attack on Ogun State, seize Swiss expatriate, driver, kill staff.

  The several months of breather enjoyed by residents of Ogun State, gunmen appear to have resumed their dastardly attacks in the state...

Breaking: Abducted 27 Kaduna Forestry College students set free after 52 days in the forest

After about 52 days in the abductors’ den, 27 students abducted by bandits from Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, were...

Abducted Two Female Students Of Olabisi Onabanjo Varsity in Ogun freed

  By Boye Ajayi The two female students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, kidnapped on Sunday have been rescued by the...

Nigerian lawmaker murdered, wives, toddler abducted 

  A lawmaker, Musa Mante Baraza, has been felled by assassins’ bullet at his Bauchi State home. Baraza, a member representing Dass constituency in...