Ransom payment

A 42-year-old Nigerian man, Jonathan Eloho Okinedo, resident in South Africa, has been found dead days after his abduction. Okinedo’s wife and brother had earlier in the week arrived at Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Headquarters,…

Nigerian Air Force has on Sunday dismissed a report claiming that it it paid N20m to armed bandits operating in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State in exchange for an anti-aircraft gun allegedly seized from the army. A United…

A new report has unveiled how Nigerian Air Force paid armed bandits N20 million in exchange for an anti-aircraft gun seized from the military unit. According to the report by US media outlet, Wall Street Journal, the ransom payment was a…

Management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denied a section of its handbook on security, advising serving corps members to prepare money for ransom if they get abducted while travelling on high-risk roads. The handbook is…

Management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has updated its handbook on security awareness to reflect the poor state of security in the country. The commission informed corps members on the possibility of being kidnapped while…

Hajia Asia El-Rufai, wife of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state, has said that there should be no payment of ransom should she ever be kidnapped. Asia, who addressed participants of a peace and security training organized for Kaduna…

Nigerian Senate has on Wednesday, May 19 considered a bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined in the country. The bill titled Terrorism…

Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo has slammed the federal government over the payment of ransom to bandits for the release of kidnapped children and youths across the country. Obasanjo in his statement on Wednesday said the…