By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent CAPTIVITY REMAINS for about 176 women and children taken during the February 3 attack on Woro and Nuku communities in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. JKNewsMedia.com reports that footage circulating on social media showed the abductees being paraded by their kidnappers. In the vide...
By Precious Ukeje, JKNewsMedia Intern FRESH POLICE inquiries have found that at least 80 congregants earlier reported missing after an armed attack on three churches in Kaduna State returned home over the weekend, a claim immediately disputed by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). JKNewsMedia.com reports that gunmen stormed the church...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE FEDERAL Government announced it has secured the release of 100 schoolchildren abducted from St. Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area, Niger State. The pupils were among 315 individuals, including 12 teachers, abducted during an attack on the sc...
She set out to collect the certificate that would seal her academic journey. Instead, Temitope Akinwale, then 25, now 33, found herself fighting for survival in a swampy forest, blindfolded, terrified, and praying through four days of captivity, as she recounts her traumatising ordeal to JKNewsMedia Reporter, HELEN OKECHUKWU. FAINT TRACES of ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has postponed his scheduled trips to Johannesburg, South Africa, and Luanda, Angola, following the abduction of schoolgirls in Kebbi State and an armed attack on worshippers at Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Eruku, Kwara State. A statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent RELATIVES OF seven abducted travellers are clinging to hope after the victims, including 24-year-old Michael Bedford and his father, were kidnapped in Uli, Anambra State, while returning to Lagos from a burial in Abia State. The incident occurred on Sunday, 5 October 2025, when the group was se...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s KIDNAPPING crisis has entrenched itself as a booming criminal enterprise, with over N48 billion demanded in ransom between July 2024 and June 2025, according to a new report by B Morgen (SBM) Intelligence. The Africa-focused geopolitical research and consulting firm said in its study,...
