#Nigerian Kidnappers

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The Meghans are global frauds. Every "good" deed, Every word & Every dollar is a GRIFT. "Nigerian girls & women" my arse.💔

Do they really expect us to believe that a global games event could ever be hosted by a country that repeatedly loses track of women & children? Harry and Meghan have the lowest of low in IQs but the rest of the world can see that THIS poverty tourism trip is yet another SUSSEX SCAM.

No country will send disabled athletes or veterans to compete in a country that cannot keep track of school kids. Shame on Nigeria's Defense Minister and all at Invictus who are involved in this fraudulent visit.

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"The abduction of the 287 children in Kaduna state on March 7, 2024 near the West African nation’s capital, is one of the largest school kidnappings in the decade since the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Borno state’s Chibok village in 2014 stunned the world. Analysts and activists say the security lapses that allowed that mass abduction remain..."

"One man was shot dead as he tried to save the students, school authorities said"

"The parallels between the two kidnappings have created more worry for parents, as even to this day nearly 100 of the Chibok girls remain missing."

BY CHINEDU ASADU

March 8, 2024

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — "Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children abducted from their school by motorcycle-riding gunmen in the latest mass kidnapping, which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and a slow security response.

The abduction of the 287 children in Kaduna state, near the West African nation’s capital, is one of the largest school kidnappings in the decade since the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Borno state’s Chibok village in 2014 stunned the world. Analysts and activists say the security lapses that allowed that mass abduction remain.

The victims of the latest attack — among them at least 100 children aged 12 or under — were surrounded and marched into a forest just as they were starting the school day, said locals in Kuriga town, located 55 miles (89 kilometers) from the city of Kaduna. One man was shot dead as he tried to save the students, school authorities said."

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"With no word from the abductors, the bishops are calling on the state to identify the kidnappers and save the hostages.

The remote town of Kuriga, in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, is still reeling after dozens of armed extremists kidnapped hundreds of students out of their classes in broad daylight on the morning of March 7. Worried parents are now calling for government intervention, after days without any word from the abductors. As of March 13, the children have yet to be found. 

The AP reports that at least 287 students were abducted – with about 100 of them aged 12 or under – making it one of the largest kidnappings since the 2014 abduction of the Chibok girls, when 275 girls were taken from their school by Boko Haram.

The parallels between the two kidnappings have created more worry for parents, as even to this day nearly 100 of the Chibok girls remain missing. 

The March 7 kidnapping saw children taken from the school just as the day was starting, at around 8 a.m.. They were herded into the forest. It took authorities several hours to respond to the scene and begin a search operation, but it is unclear how deep into the forest the kidnappers went.

Locals have suggested that the abductors belong to a group of bandits who have been terrorizing remote villages in Nigeria’s northwest and central regions.

14-year-old Nigerian girl could declared a martyr. Nigeria is one of the places of most intense suffering for Christians in our day.

Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Makurdi has called on the government to intercede on behalf of the Christian population, which he said is being targeted by these attacks. Bishop Anagbe told OSV: 

“The kidnappings, killings and destroying churches we are experiencing every day are aimed at finishing Christians. We are worried that despite such killings and kidnappings, the government has never arrested anyone. As a church, we now demand that the government act quickly to stop these vices that continue to dishearten people.”

I try hard not to hate anyone, but The Meghans sure know how to push the right buttons. 🤐🤬

Safety 1st: The UK is unsafe but African countries where Nigerian schoolgirls are kidnapped & Zika Zones for childbearing royals are no problem.

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NBS: Nigerians Paid N2.2trn Ransom To Kidnappers In 1 Year

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says ransom money is estimated at 2,235,954 per individual kidnapping incidents between May 2023 and April 2024. The NBS revealed this in its Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey, CESPS, 2024 released in Abuja on Tuesday. The CESPS is a household-based survey, which provides an in-depth understanding of the situation of crime in Nigeria, with a…

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Nigerian Army Overpower Kidnappers in Fierce Gun Battle, Save Four Hostages

The Nigerian Army has rescued four kidnapped victims at Ugbolu Forest, near Asaba, the Delta State capital. Troops of the 63 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, after getting an intelligence report about the activities of some suspected kidnappers, raided their hideout and successfully rescued the four victims who had been kidnapped. The Army personnel engaged the suspected kidnappers in a fierce gun…

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Please pray for Nigeria and all those living under terror.

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At least nine students have been abducted by gunmen during a late-night raid on their school in northern Nigeria’s Kogi state, authorities said Friday, the third such abduction amid rampant kidnappings targeting schools in the conflict-hit region this year. The assailants invaded the Confluence University of Science and Technology in Kogi state, which neighbors the nation’s capital, Abuja, and whisked away the students from their classrooms before security forces could arrive, according to Kogi Commissioner for Information Kingsley Femi Fanwo. The state has “activated the security architecture to track the kidnappers and ensure the abducted students are rescued and the abductors apprehended,” Fanwo added. The official said local hunters were helping security forces in “combing” the school area, which is surrounded by bushes in the remote Osara town. Nigeria has struggled with several mass school kidnappings since the first such incident in 2014 when Islamic extremists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the northeastern Chibok village, sparking the global #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign. A t least 1,400 Nigerian students have since been abducted from their schools in similar circumstances, including at least 130 children abducted from their school in Kuriga town in the northern Kaduna state in March. Some are still held captive, including nearly 100 of the Chibok girls.

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It is now more difficult than ever for young people to dream in the biggest country in Africa by population. It feels like the leaders have taken the bed which these young people sleep on, they could barely sleep not to think of dreaming. Nigeria has no stronghold you cannot say where the governmental policy is centered, there is no direction in the government, and that is putting the poor masses into unending hardship, where the system is not meant for you and the structure in place keep making it hard for young Nigerians to have a good living, then it is heading towards decay.

The hope and aspirations of younger Nigerians are in collapse, the system has shattered the dreams of a dreamer. For long the system wasn’t design for young Nigerians to have chance to inspire it has been systematic perpetual captivity believing in something they could not see, no conducive atmosphere for young people to learn, education has rock bottom, in a country where the government finds it more comfortable negotiating with “bandits and kidnappers” than university staff to fix the current strike that is keeping young Nigerians out of school, what is more disastrous than this? They have taken the bed away young Nigerians cannot dream again.

It is time for intellectual reawakening, it has always been the time but now the current situation is craving for revival for young Nigerians to have hope that one day, that they could be able to have their beds back so that they could be able to dream and one day wake up with their dream in their faces. Pushing beyond the limits to have what it takes to chase your dream, you have to make a move before your dreams can be actualized, in all circumstance you should always reach for the stars that’s where the hope resides.

Execute in adversity don’t let the system drain you, if it is not working you have to keep pushing, if it is slow keep dragging yourself. Education and enlightenment which is an instrument to fight inconsistency in the government, has been starkly kept away by Nigerian government from the poor masses. Kids growing up in the innermost slums of the country cannot dream again, they no longer know what it is like to keep high dreams, the system has completely denied them everything and they walk aimlessly and the system will pick them from their lowest and use them as instrument of oppression against his own people. It is about hope for young Nigerians, they are not asking for impossible just to return their beds so that they can be able to dream again.

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Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has squarely rejected the idea of paying any ransom for the release of more than 280 schoolchildren who were abducted last week. Tinubu specified that "not a dime" would be spent to meet the kidnappers' demands, after the payment of ransom was made illegal in Nigeria in 2022.

Authorities may be running out of time to secure the release of the hostages in northwestern Kaduna state, as the kidnapping gangs have vowed to kill the captives if their demands are not met.

The kidnappers have asked for the equivalent of over $620,000 (about €570,000) for the release of the students and school staff — in addition to 11 Toyota Hilux pickup vehicles and 150 motorcycles.

The abductions, which took place in the town of Kuriga on March 7, are the first major kidnappings to take place in Nigeria since 2021. However, gunmen have been operating in the region for several years. Known locally as bandits, they frequently abduct individual locals, especially pupils, to demand ransom payments.

President Tinubu also stressed that the military must step in to ensure the release of the victims, according to Nigeria's Information Minister Mohammed Idris.

"The president has directed that security agencies must as a matter of urgency ensure that these children and all those who have been kidnapped are brought back to safety," Idris told reporters on Wednesday.

Kaduna Governor Uba Sani added that all authorities were "doing everything possible to ensure the safe return of the pupils and students."

Islamist militants, bandits behind kidnapping surge

This recent surge in abductions has become a growing challenge for Nigeria's embattled government. Earlier in the week, some 60 people were also abducted from another village in Kaduna state.

In the past 10 days alone, close to 400 people have been kidnapped for ransom, including 15 other students.

"We see that there are two actors [behind the kidnappings]: one are Islamist militants and then the [other are] bandit groups who have been prescribed as terrorists by the Nigerian government," security expert Ryan Cummings told DW.

Cummings, the director of Signal Risk, a security analysis organization with a focus on the African continent, added that while for the Islamists, "there are some political considerations they demand in exchange for the release of hostages, such as the release of some of their own captured militants," the local bandits operating primarily in northwestern and north-central Nigeria chiefly appear to be motivated by money and secondly by protecting their territorial interests.

"[The bandits] tend to demand financial concessions, but they also use hostages in some of their camps as the means of preventing the Nigerian military from conducting air raids on their positions, for example.

"So obviously they are using civilians as human shield," he said.

Are kidnappers 'ready for negotiation'?

Some attempts are nevertheless being made to negotiate between the government and the criminal gangs. Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a respected Islamic cleric with a strong military background, has offered to mitigate between the two camps — but there's little hope of success.

Such an intervention, however, would be difficult as the kidnappers seem to become bolder with increasingly excessive ransom demands, said Aliyu Othman, a Nigerian media analyst and journalist.

"The issue of negotiating with bandits will in a lot of the cases not bring about peace. Sheikh Gumi has been offering that opportunity since the period of [Muhammadu] Buhari as the president of Nigeria," Othman told DW.

"Are the kidnappers, the bandits, ready for negotiation or settlement? That is what is important here."

'All we have tried so far has not worked out'

While officials remain resolute in not entering into negotiations with the kidnappers, some Nigerians believe Tinubu's government must keep an open mind in dealing with the crisis.

DW took to the streets of Abuja to ask locals their views. A female resident said she believed the government had to do more to ensure the safety of families who were exposed to the activities of bandits across the country.

"We wake up to a fresh story of a kidnappings every day, when you least expect it. And the sad thing is that now the vulnerable are the victims, like children, women and entire families," she said.

A mother from Abuja, meanwhile, responded that something needs "to be done because all we have tried so far has not worked out. All the security measures that were put in place by the government have failed."

A male resident of Abuja told DW that the government needed more resources to tackle the crisis.

"The attacks are rampant all over. […] If we begin to ask ourselves how many security personnel we have on the ground and how well have they been taken care of, we might get somewhere. So I am appealing to the government to buy the latest technology to track down these criminals because that is the only way forward," he said.

Corruption hindering efforts to fight abduction crisis

Security analyst Cummings agreed that Nigerian authorities have to step up their efforts to stop the kidnappings.

"The Nigerian government will firstly have to enhance the resources available to state security personnel and properly train specialized units that are engaged in anti-kidnapping operations. But most members of the security forces are too inadequately resourced [to begin with], they lack ammunition and food provisions and other resources, too," he said.

Cummings said that while the tools necessary to fight terrorists and kidnappers were in sore demand across the region, corruption within the security services was also contributing to the derailing of efforts to end the crisis.

"The state is not in the position to provide additional resources. This needs to change. There needs to be a shift in strategy."

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Medical Doctor kidnapped by gunmen - NMA raisesthe alarm Suspected kidnappers have abducted a medical doctor, Austin Uwumagbe, the Director of Victory Hospital-Annex at Ogaminana, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State. Daily Trust reported that Dr Uwumagbe was last seen on Tuesday after he closed from work and headed home. A source from the hospital said that his abductors have reached out to his family, demanding a huge sum of money before he can regain his freedom. Kogi State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) confirmed the abduction of Dr Uwumagbe in a statement issued in Lokoja yesterday. A joint statement signed by the state NMA Chairman, Dr Baoku Olusola, and Secretary, Dr Emmanuel Bola Jonah, said their colleague was kidnapped shortly after leaving his hospital on Tuesday. “He was said to have been abducted with his car, an ash coloured 406 Peugeot with Registration number DAV 561 AA, at about 8:30pm on Tuesday,” the NMA said in the statement. While the NMA condemned the act and demanded for the immediate release of their kidnapped member, the body called on the security agencies to, as a matter of urgency, take action for their member to regain his freedom. The Kogi State police command’s spokesman, William Aya, did not respond to a text message and call to that effect. #MedicalDoctorkidnappedbygunmen

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Alhaja Sikirat Odumosu Rescued as Police Recover N100M Ransom in Ogun State"

The Nigerian police forces have neutralized the kidnappers who abducted Alhaja Sikirat Odumosu, the wife of former Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Hakeem Odumosu, in Arepo, Ogun State. The rescue mission, which took place in Ogun State, also resulted in the recovery of the ransom money that had been demanded for her release. This was announced by the Police Public Relations Officer, Prince…

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Terrorism: Nigerians Thrown Into Fear

Terrorism: Nigerians thrown Into fear as kidnapping, terrorism rampant In just a few days into the New Year, 2025, activities of terrorists, bandits and kidnappers rose to daredevil level as these criminal elements keep sending horrific signal across various part of the country. Reports have emerged that there have been various unprovoked attacks on innocent individuals and security personnel,…

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How Nigerians Paid N2.23 Trillion In Random Payments In One Year — NBS

How Nigerians Paid N2.23 Trillion In Random Payments In One Year — NBS

Nigerians paid ₦2.23tn as ransom to kidnappers in twelve months. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the payments were made between May 2023 and April 2024. According to the NBS’s latest Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey report published on Tuesday, 65 per cent of households affected by kidnapping paid ransoms for the release of their loved ones from the abductors’…

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Nigerian Police Recover Body Of Dutch National Who Drowned Escaping Gunmen In Rivers State

The vehicle was reportedly part of a convoy ambushed by armed kidnappers on the East-West Road in Eleme, causing the driver to lose control and veer off the bridge into the river. The remains of a white man whose car plunged into the Eleme River in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria, have been recovered, the police said on Tuesday. The police had launched a search-and-rescue operation in the state…

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Nigerian Army 6 Brigade Troops Arrest 2 Kidnappers, Recover Ak 47 Rifle In Taraba State

Nigerian Army 6 Brigade Troops Arrest 2 Kidnappers, Recover Ak 47 Rifle In Taraba State Following a well-coordinated sting operation in the general areas of Maraban Abare, Bomanda, and Karamuke village which was aimed at curbing kidnapping activities in Lau Local Government Area (LGA) of Taraba State. On 12 November 2024, the gallant and dedicated troops of 6 Brigade Nigerian Army Sector 3…

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Police Kill Two Suspected Kidnappers Terrorising Warri, Sapele, Other Delta State Communities In Gun Duel

Edafe Bright, spokesperson for the state police command in a statement on Wednesday said the operative stormed a criminal hideout along Ewheru – Patani Road in Ughellli LGA and during the operation, they were ambushed by the suspected hoodlums. The Nigerian Police Force, Delta State command, has stated that at least two suspected kidnappers allegedly responsible for terrorising Warri – Sapele…