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A soldier, identified simply as Nafiu and attached to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment, Tungan Maje, Federal Capital Territory, has been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services for allegedly hiring out and selling guns to kidnappers. PUNCH Metro  gathered that the suspect was arrested last week at Dankogi Park, Zuba, with the support of members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in the area. A DSS source told our correspondent that the soldier usually lent kidnappers guns for N200,000 or N300,000. He was reportedly arrested after some kidnappers, who were arrested, implicated him. “They were asked to contact him for another deal to supply them with AK-47 rifles for N3m and he agreed. But he was arrested by operatives of the DSS with a fully loaded AK-47 rifle which he was about to exchange for N3m at the location where the transaction was supposed to take place in Zuba,” the source said. The DSS spokesperson, Mr Peter Afunanya, did not take his calls or respond to ...

University of Calabar(UNICAL) management has dissociated itself from arrested kidnap kingpin,  John Ewa,  otherwise known as  John Lyon . The Registrar of the institution,  Mr. Gabriel Egbe,  in a statement released on Wednesday, September 28, asserted that John Ewa, arrested for kidnappings in Bayelsa State, was never a student of the university, nor did he graduate from UNICAL. This comes after multiple reports alleged that the suspect is a graduate of the University of Calabar. John Lyon’s Facebook bio also reads “Studied at the University of Calabar”. The school management in the statement urged members of the public to “discountenance any information linking Ewa to their prestigious university.” “The Management of the University of Calabar has described as fallacious, a news item making the rounds and linking their prestigious ivory tower to the recently arrested kidnapper, John Ewa”, a statement released by the register read in part. Meanwhile, appre...

No fewer than three policemen were said to have been abducted in broad daylight by some unknown gunmen in Ogun State. It was gathered that the police officers were abducted on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. The cops were the State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, for an investigation. They were said to have been duly booked  at the police division in Wasinmi, before they left for their place of primary assignment. A reliable source told our correspondent that the officers, led by Inspector Oladipo Olayemi, were captured on the road by their abductors, who accosted them at about 2:30pm. It was gathered that the commercial driver, who conveyed the cops escaped by a whisker from the kidnappers. It was further gathered that the Divisional Police Officer in Ewekoro had led his men in searching for the missing policemen. When contacted, the Ogun State Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed that “people were kidnapped, but only one policeman i...