Group donates drone to vigilante group in Edo to check kidnapping
IN an effort to check cases of kidnapping and other criminal activities, a socio-cultural group and non-governmental organisation, the Uromi Like Minds Initiative (ULMI) has donated a surveillance drone to the Esan Youths Awareness Vigilante Network to aide its anti-kidnapping activities Uromi and environs in Edo State.
MASS KIDNAPPINGS: The truth Nigerians do not want to hear, by Femi Fani-Kayode
Sadly, most Nigerians will not read or appreciate this contribution because frankly it is beyond them. Worst still, many of them, particularly in the younger generation, find it difficult to read more than three lines even though it is to their own shame and detriment. For those that have the gravitas, insight, foresight, profundity and intellectual virility […]
What to know about Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis
Kidnapping for ransom is a major problem in Nigeria, where gunmen have seized more than 250 school pupils in one of the largest mass abductions in years.
Gunmen hijack buses, kidnap passengers on Kogi Road, as driver escapes
“CP has deployed an additional Tactical Squad consist of Quick Response Unit, Police Mobile Force, and Counter-Terrorism Unit, as well as conventional police personnel, to the area to continue with the bush combing and to ensure all victims are rescued unhurt.”
Kidnapping: We’ll clamp down on vehicles with unapproved tinted glasses – Police
“You will discover that some of these crimes, particularly violent crimes, vehicle-related crimes, are connected. “You can’t have kidnapping, you can’t have some of these incidences without being mobile…”
My last conversation with my late husband – Widow of Ekiti’s slain monarch
“He called me when he reached Ajowa that he was coming, that he was hungry and I should prepare something for him. Ajowa to this place, I was not checking time, that it is not supposed to take more than one hour.”
