15 states governors enlist over 50,000 vigilantes to battle kidnappers

February 2, 2024 Verity News Admin 0

Fifteen state governors have mobilized vigilante squads of 52,106 men to combat the robbers and kidnappers who are operating freely around the nation. The officials in 11 other states, including Delta, Kano, Plateau, and Sokoto, and their governors had assembled a coalition of neighborhood watch groups, hunters, and vigilantes to supplement the police and other security agencies. Scores of Nigerians have been abducted across the country in the past weeks, with the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Lagos, and some […]

Labaran Maku’s kidnapped siblings regain freedom

June 22, 2023 Verity News Admin 0

After paying an undisclosed ransom, three members of Labaran Maku’s immediate family who were abducted on Tuesday in his Wakkama Village in Nasarawa State’s Akwanga Local Council were released. Maku was a former minister of information. Some heavily armed men had invaded the family compound about 9pm on Tuesday and taken away two men and a woman to an unknown […]