The journalist with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Akure, Olubunmi Oke, who was kidnapped on Thursday, has been released. Mrs Oke was reportedly returning from her office located along Ondo Road, Akure to her residence in Oba-Ile Housing Estate at the time of the incident. “I confirm that she has been released. I spoke with her early this morning shortly after she was set free by her abductors,” ...

A female journalist with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in Akure, the Ondo state capital, has been kidnapped. Olubunmi Oke was abducted on her way home from the office on Thursday by four unknown persons and taken to an unknown destination. It was gathered that after overtaking her car and forcing it to stop, the men dragged Mrs Oke into their car, leaving her five month-old child and her house mai ...

Pirates attacked an oil industry supply vessel in Nigerian waters this week and kidnapped three crew members, security sources said on Thursday. The captain, chief engineer and second engineer were abducted on Monday when gunmen boarded the Malaysia-flagged Armada Tuah 22 around 50 nautical miles (90 km) off the coast of the Brass region in Bayelsa State, three security sources said. One of the sailors kidn ...

Gunmen on Sunday killed a guard and kidnapped seven foreign workers from the Setraco construction company site in Jama’are town in Bauchi State. The Associated Press, quoting the Local government Chairman, Adamu Aliyu reported that those kidnapped were from Britain, Italy, Greece and Lebanon. The Commissioner of Police in Bauchi, Mohammed Ladan, who confirmed the incidence, said the gunmen attacked a police ...

Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi says he is ready to establish a massive farm project of about 10,000-hectares in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state, if the council and the people of the area will provide land for the scheme. He was speaking during a town hall meeting with the people of Oyigbo Local Government Area at the Oyigbo Council headquarters in Afam yesterday. Governor Amaechi w ...

The crisis rocking the recent elections of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) took a new dimension as hoodlums attacked the entourage of the newly elected president in Jos on Thursday with accusing fingers pointed at one of the contestants. The newly elected president of National Association of Nigerian Students, Yinka Gbadebo and some members of the association escaped an attempt on their liv ...

A diplomacy and security analyst, Femi Adegbulu has identified the increasing gap between the rich and the poor in Nigeria as a great inducement of criminality in the country. Mr Adegbulu, who disclosed this on Monday while speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, advised the Federal Government to deal with the issues of corruption, unemployment and poverty in Nigeria ...

The capacity of the Nigerian Police Force is currently being overstretched by the insurgency in the North, abuses against ordinary citizens and undermines of the rule of law. According to a report of the Human Rights Watch, Nigerians don’t trust the police; citizens generally have a bad impression of police officers because of their perceived brutality and corruption. Despite the huge budgetary allocation t ...

A Professor of criminology and social sciences at the University of Abuja, Femi Odekunle has described Nigeria as a place where politicians engage in political and economic racketeering for their selfish purposes. Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Mr Odekunle said Nigerians should disregard the comments of ministers and other government, officials, who often sa ...

A security expert and National Coordinator of the Network on Police Reform, Emeka Nwanevu has said that the opaque processes by which Inspectors-General of Police are appointed, the absence of secured tenure for those that occupy that office and high turnover in the leadership of the police make planning for improvements in the performance of the force rather difficult in Nigeria. Mr Nwanevu, who was a gues ...