Category: Metro

A prominent Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has revealed that the students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents, and not bandits. He gave this revelation while speaking yesterday on a live TV programme, Gumi said Boko Haram insurgents were beginning to infiltrate bandit herders. According to him; “Now, we have two…

27 students abducted by bandits from Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, have been released after close to two months in captivity. One of the persons who received the students confirmed the news to Newsfocusng on Wednesday. He said the release was facilitated by the Sheikh Abubakar Gumi dialogue committee with support from…

Youths from Nnung Ikono Obio in Uruan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have destroyed the family house of Uduak Akpan, the suspect linked with the murder of a job seeker, Miss Iniubong Umoren. Newsfocusng gathered that the youths, on Tuesday, used heavy pebbles to vandalise the building after setting the security house of…

The House of Representatives has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to urgently take over the investigation of the kidnapping, sexual, physical assault and killing of Miss Iniubong Ephraim Umoren, and ensure prosecution of the perpetrators of the heinous crime. The House, condemned in strong terms, the act of sexual assault and…

Abductors of the students and a staff of Greenfield University, Kasarami, Kaduna have released one out of the remaining 17 students in their custody. Recall that the bandits leader, Sani Idris Jalingo, had on Monday in an interview with Voice of America (VOA) Hausa confirmed that 17 students, including 15 females and a two males,…

  Unknown gunmen have on Tuesday abducted the Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Kogi state, Wakili Damina. The state Secretary of MACBAN, Adamu Abubakar, said Damina was abducted on April 30 by some armed men dressed in army camouflage. He , however, noted that witnesses said the abductors,…

The parents of the kidnapped Afaka Forestry Mechanization Institute in Kaduna State protested at the National Assembly building in Abuja on Tuesday, demanding their children return home safely and ending the country’s insecurity. On March 11, bandits in Military uniforms kidnapped 39 students from the school. Later, the bandits released 10 students in two batches,…

Three cattle breeders who were abducted on Sunday by an unknown gunmen have been released, Newsfocusng learnt. Our correspondent gathered on Tuesday that the victims were released after the sum of Six Million Naira was paid. Recall that three people were kidnapped at Idi Ope, near Igangan, in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the…

Unknown gunmen have abducted three cattle breeders in Idi Ope, near Igangan, in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo state. Newsfocusng gathered that the three victims were said to be of Yoruba origin, they were identified as Kabiru Oladimeji, Kazeem and Soka. The trio, our correspondent gathered were said to be on their way…

Residents of Mpape a satellite community under the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were on Monday morning thrown into fear, when they gathered that a middle age man, in his early forties were on Sunday night kidnapped. A source close to the family hinted that the man was returning home in…