After collecting ransom, gunmen behead LG boss in Nigeria

Chris Ohizu, the kidnapped Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria, has been beheaded. The council boss was reportedly butchered on Sunday after his abductors allegedly received N6 million as ransom. Video of his beheading surfaced online on Sunday, where his killers insisted that there would be no election […]

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We paid N180m, 10 motorcycles as ransom to get our children released ―14 kidnapped students’ parents (Video)

Parents of the 14 abducted students of the Greenfield University Kaduna who regained their freedom on Saturday, May 29, said they paid N180 million to the bandits and also gave 10 motorcycles as a ransom for the release of their children. The students were abducted from their hostels on April 20. Sadly, the bandits killed 5 […]

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Bill seeking to prohibit payment and receipt of ransom for kidnapping in Nigeria passes second reading at the Senate

A bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined in the country was on Wednesday May 19 considered by the Nigerian senate. The bill titled Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which stipulates a 15-year jail sentence for anyone found guilty of such action is […]

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