NSA develops new strategy to help curb kidnapping, banditry

Governor Obaseki Seeks an end to banditry

Delta police command parades 99 suspects for robbery, kidnapping, cultism

Zamfara abduction: We have all it takes to tackle banditry, kidnapping - President Buhari

Islamist militants have been rampaging in northern Mozambique, but due to a restrictive government information policy, there have been few details from the ground. DW correspondent Adrian Kriesch got some rare insights.

In an exclusive interview with The Guardian, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, discussed the country’s convoluted political structure, social upheavals, and menace of banditry, criminality, and the absence of governance at the centre.

Kidnapping of rice farmers threaten food security in Nigeria - RIFAN

Captured schoolchildren in Nigeria have appeared in a ransom video, days after they were abducted by bandits in the northern state of Kaduna. The Nigerian president has vowed a swift response to the kidnapping.

Obasanjo, Gumi Propose Way To Deal With Banditry In Nigeria

The Open Arms vessel was left at sea for 19 days after the Italian interior minister at the time did not allow it to dock at a Sicilian port. Matteo Salvini is accused of abuse of office and unlawful detention.

Zamfara state governor, Matawalle has secured the release of a kidnap victim without paying ransom.

Lawmaker Francis Ottoh Agbo took a on-the-canisters-assessment tour of communities invaded by the militants where about 130 persons were killed.

Nigerian security forces have arrested three men accused of taking part in a mass abduction on Bethel Baptist High School in July. Gunmen kidnapped 121 students who were asleep in their dorm rooms. The attack took place just outside the city of Kaduna in the north-west of the country. One hundred teens have since managed to escape or were freed, but twenty-one are still unaccounted for.