According to information available to The Eagle Online, the incident was reported to the police on October 7, 2024 by the victim.
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According to available information, the student strangled the lady to death after allegedly collecting a N400,000 ransom from the N10 million he demanded.
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris disclosed this in Abuja, on Monday.
The State Chairman of CAN, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, made the revelation during a visit to Governor Uba Sani.
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have killed a notorious kidnapper, while attempting to collect a second ransom from relatives of his victim.
Opadele was working with Owolabi due to the ongoing nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The two children were abducted on Friday evening in front of their residence. They were inside their mother’s car at Leo area, Akure, the state capital, when the gunmen took them away.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Commissioner of Police Frank Mba, paraded the suspects on Wednesday in Abuja.
That was the message, in my estimation, that insurgents rudely passed to Nigeria last Tuesday with the invasion of Nigeria’s apex military institution, the Nigerian Defence Academy.
THISDAY investigation has also revealed that the N20 million was collected by the bandits in the forest last week.
Josiah, a carpenter, who told the News Agency of Nigeria while recounting his experience in captivity, said the gunmen, in their number, invaded their homes at Byazhin area in Kubwa around 11:45pm on May 21 and kidnapped two of them.
At a joint press conference addressed on Monday, the distraught parents described the government’s publicised stance not to negotiate with bandits and the threat to prosecute anyone who does as callous and unfortunate.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this while speaking on a radio programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
The newspaper revealed this on its Twitter handle on Sunda after the students, all studying French, were released.
The suspect presently in the custody of Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari.
In the interview with the notable newspaper, Miracle, who did not state the amount paid as ransom, said the cars sold to raise the money were for him, his wife and his father.
The Commissioner, Nasarawa State Police Command, Bola Longe, confirmed the development on Thursday when he spoke with newsmen.
Kidnappers of Ogere Siasia, mother of Coach Samson Siasia, have requested a whopping sum of N700 million ransom.
Although the parents of the kids have been running from pillar to post, attempting to reach out to friends, colleagues and relatives to raise the money, it had however not been easy for them
In a statement in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the CAN quoted Nwike’s younger brother, who has been contacted by Dr. Nwike, as saying the kidnappers are demanding N30 million in foreign currency as ransom