A 38-year old man Abubakar Saidu and his wife, along with three other suspects, have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a two-year-old for ransom. The Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, PRO, DSP Ramhan Nansel who disclosed this during a news briefing in Lafia the Nasarawa State capital, explained that the suspect conspired with four others to kidnap the son of his neighbour. DSP Nansel pointed out that two weeks later, the suspects called the...

The Nigerian Police Force has beefed up security in Rivers State University, Port Harcourt following a robbery at one of the female hostels on Wednesday night. The robbers, armed with guns and machetes, invaded female Hostel D late Wednesday night and operated at will without interruption. On Thursday, female students protested within the campus, decrying repeated criminal attacks in their hostels. One of the students who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity said the...

Bandits operating in the Niger state axis have claimed responsibility for the crashed surveillance helicopter in Badna, Chukuba ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. Recalls that a surveillance helicopter crashed in Badna, Mina, on Monday The terrorists, in a two-minute-and-seventeen-seconds video, claimed they brought down the jet using an AK-47 rifle. According to the narrator in the video, who spoke in Hausa, the group are from Dogo Gide group, one of the...