The Police Command in Kano State has rescued 126 workers allegedly held hostage for three months at the Popular Farms and Mills Limited located in Challawa Industrial Estate, Kano. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed this in a statement in Kano. Haruna revealed that on June 21, at about 6:00 p.m., a complaint was received from Global Community for Human Right Network, Kano, that some labourers were wrongly confined inside the said...

The Ondo State Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun Corps, has arrested 42 cows over alleged destruction of farmlands around Alagbaka Extension in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Chief Adetunji Adeleye, State Commander, Amotekun Corps, made this known while conducting journalists round the affected farmlands. Adeleye explained that the cows were arrested after series of complaints by owners of the farmlands in the area. According to him, more than eight separate farmlands with crops such as...

Gun-wielding gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have pounced on mile 6 by-pass in Jalingo, Taraba state capital, and whisked away from a police sergeant and two staff members of NATU water factory, security, and local sources have said. Sources claim that a distress call was put to the police on the operations but all to no avail. A resident of the area said, ‘’Kidnappers entered our area over the weekend, kidnapped a Police Sergeant and 2...

Disturbed by what they call ‘’ preferential treatment’’ the Hausa/Fulani Community of Tigno in Lamurde Government Area of Adamawa had demanded Justice and fairness over the recent communal conflict in the area. In a news conference in Yola, the state capital, Mr. Aliyu Tigno, a leader of the community, said that the demand was necessary to prevent future occurrence of the conflict and restore permanent peace in the area. He alleged that the Hausa/Fulani community...

The Police Command in Plateau has confirmed the kidnapping of Pa Defwan Dariye, father of Chief Joshua Dariye, former Governor of Plateau. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the old man was kidnapped on Thursday night. He said the nonagenarian was kidnapped at his residence in Mushere, Bokkos Local Government Area of the state. NAN recalls that the father of the...