News as it breaks
The lawmaker representing Goronyo-Gada Federal Constituency, Hon. Bashir Gorau, has confirmed that 26 passengers have been rescued following Sunday’s tragic boat accident in Sokoto State. The ill-fated vessel, carrying over 50 passengers en route to a local market, capsized on the Rima River early Sunday morning. Initial figures from the…
The Kogi State government says six more students kidnapped from the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH) Osara, Okene, have regained their freedom. The students were abducted by suspected bandits who invaded the school premises last Thursday, May 9. Fourteen students were earlier rescued by the state government. In…
The Defence Headquarters, on Sunday, said troops rescued the abducted pupils and teachers of LEA School Kuriga in the Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna within Zamfara State. On March 7, 2024, about 287 pupils and teachers of the school were abducted by suspected terrorists who took them into the…
NAPTIP seeks public assistance to locate family of 8-year-old Kano girl rescued in Abuja The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) is seeking public assistance to locate the family of an 8-year-old girl rescued in Abuja. ‘ The agency in a statement on Monday, March 18,…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has said it rescued and received 21,181 victims of human trafficking in 20 years. The Director General of NAPTIP, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, said this when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Social Duties for the defence of the 2024…
The accident occurred in international waters in the Ionian Sea and had prompted an extensive rescue operation complicated by strong winds, the coastguard had said earlier.
