A catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Paul Irikefe, has allegedly been abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Delta State. Father Irikefe, a lecturer with Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Major Seminary in Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, was said to have been kidnapped on Monday evening within the Warri/Effurun metropolis The priest, who became a…
The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast Nigeria, Amina Ali, has disclosed that she misses her Boko Haram abductor who claimed to be her husband. In her first interview, since she was freed from Boko Haram in May, she said…
The uncle of the 15-year old girl who was allegedly Raped by a police inspector at gunpoint in Akwa Ibom State, Dr. Ime Stephen, has been abducted. Dr. Ime was kidnapped at his house on Tuesday around 3am. It was gathered that the human rights activist, who had been fighting for justice for the rape…
A 49-year-old farmer, Gabriel Ajor, has been arraigned before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly abducting and selling seven children including his two sons and an eight-month old baby for N400,000. Ajor was alleged to have abducted and sold the children under the pretext of sending them to schools in Owerri and United States…
A nine-year old girl who was among the 65 young girls rescued by the troops from Sambisa Forest, has embarked on a hunger strike, saying she wants to go back to Sambisa forest to meet her Boko Haram husband. It was gathered that the girl (name withheld) has refused to eat for the past three…
It’s been two years since the Chibok girls were abducted from their school in Borno State they were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2014, and most of them remain in captivity, or so many will like to believe. The campaign to secure the girls’ rescue has been unending and one can’t help but…
The 14-year old girl who was reportedly kidnapped from Bayelsa State and taken to Kano, Miss Ese Rita Oruru, has been confirmed to be pregnant. Mr. Charles Oruru, the father of the teenage girl, confirmed on Thursday, March 3, that his daughter is five months pregnant for her abductor, Yunusa Yunusa popularly known as Yellow . He…
The 14-year old girl, Ese Oruru, who was allegedly abducted, has arrived in Bayelsa State in company of her mother, Mrs Rose Oruru and some police officers from Abuja. She was allegedly abducted in August 2015 by one Yunusa Dahiru, also known as Yellow, and taken to Kano where she was also allegedly married off.…
The entire Elele Community, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State has been enveloped in the atmosphere of total gloom after a 9-year-old girl was raped to death by yet to be identified persons. The girl whose name was simply given as Miracle was abducted at about 5 pm on Wednesday, 13 January by yet to be…
The Cross River State Police Command has rescued two minors who were abducted and turned to sex slaves by a 42-year old herbalist, Emmanuel Akpan-Okon, for four years. The minors, names withheld, both aged 11, said in the four years that they were held hostage, the herbalist raped them almost every day. Akpan-Okon was arrested…
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