Monday 6 July 2015

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Delta poly lecturer kidnapped
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A LECTURER of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro Mr. Chike Ggemudu was weekend, kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
Ggemudu, who is of the Directorate of General Studies in the institution, was abducted in the early hours of Friday at his residence along NDC road, in the Ozoro community and was whisked away to an unknown destination.
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OAU lecturer kidnapped, driver killed, car burnt

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A lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Dr. Femi Omisore, was kidna-pped by unidentified persons at the weekend.
It was gathered that the lecturer was kidnapped at Ado-Ekiti, while on his way to Oye-Ekiti.
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Police rescue kidnapped female lecturer

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Rivers State Police command, Wednesday evening, confirmed the rescue of a female lecturer of the University of Port Harcourt, Awala George, who was taken hostage eighth days ago.
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DELSU ASUU tasks Delta govt on rescue of kidnapped lecturer

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—ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, Delta State University, ASUU, Abraka branch, has accused the state government of care-free attitude to the kidnap of Associate Professor Nyerhovwo Tonukari, a lecturer in the institution.
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Kidnappers lay siege to Delta varsity; over 20 lecturers kidnapped

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Kidnap-syndicate *Dr. Mercy Mokobia’s whereabouts still unknown five months after kidnap
*We have arrested suspects—Police
Abraka—THERE has been palpable tension in Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Delta State in the past few months over the wave of abduction of lecturers by suspected kidnappers.
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Kidnapped DELSU lecturer: ASUU faults Delta CP

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Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka chapter, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, has described as untenable reason adduced by the police in Delta State for failure to produce a female lecturer of the university, Dr. (Mrs.) Mercy Mokobia, kidnapped in her residence since April 9.
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Kidnapped DELSU lecturer: We‘re not magicians, Delta CP replies ASUU

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WARRI — DELTA State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, has said that the police were not magicians and require realistic information from the public to establish the whereabouts of a female lecturer of Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Dr. Mercy Mokobia, kidnapped, April 9, from her home in Obiaruku.
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Kidnapped lecturer’s son freed

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THOMAS Chinujinim Ogbeoleka, son of Dr. Godstime Ogbeoleka, Senior Lecturer at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, IAUE, Rivers State who was abducted last weekend has been released.
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‘Over 20 lecturers, relations kidnapped in Delta varsity’

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CHAIRMAN, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka branch, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, at the weekend, said at least 20 lecturers, their spouses and relations, had been kidnapped in the last two years by gunmen.
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Kidnapped lecturer regains freedom, another slumps, dies in office

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Prof. Celestina Isiramen, a lecturer at Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo, who was abducted by unknown gunmen last week Wednesday has regained her freedom.
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Kidnapped lecturer’s colleagues beg govt, Police to recover victim’s corpse

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Security operatives and government have been enjoined to help recover the corpse of a lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Omoku, Dr. Richard Maduenyi, who died in the custody of kidnappers in Rivers State.
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FUTA lecturers to raise N15m ransom for kidnapped colleague

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Akure- Lecturers of Federal University of Technology Akure FUTA, Ondo State, have started contributing money to meet the N15 million ransom demanded by the kidnappers of Dr. Tunji Akinlabi in a bid to free him, 72 hours after he was kidnapped.
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Kidnapped lecturer found dead in car booth

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A LECTURER in the faculty of law of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, Joseph Barifaa Pango, has been found dead in the boot of his car a day after he was reportedly kidnapped around Barobara in Tai Local Government area of Rivers State.
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Kidnapped lecturer released

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By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—A  lecturer in the University of Benin, Dr. Julius Iyasele, who was kidnapped last Sunday by unknown persons, has been released by his abductors after paying a ransom of N1.5 million. Dr. Iyasele, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, was set free by his abductors on Monday night. He was said
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Ekiti varsity lecturers threaten strike over kidnaps

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Ayodele Fayose Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ekiti State University chapter, took to the street yesterday in protest against incessant kidnapping of its members, gaving the state government till Friday, May 22, to rescue the victims, failing which they would go on indefinite strike.
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ASUU protests kidnap of varsity lecturer in Delta

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asuu-protests-new ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State branch, yesterday, stormed Asaba in protest against the kidnap of one of its members, Dr. Nyerhovwo Tonukari, and his younger brother, Mr. Tega Tonukari, and called on their abductors to release them unconditionally.
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Police rescue kidnapped mother, baby in Asaba

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ASABA — Suspected kidnappers, yesterday, abducted a mother, Mrs. Adeyemi and her baby at Asaba, but the police put up a brave performance by rescuing the victims.
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Delta ASUU to CP: We want our kidnapped colleague ‘dead or alive’

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WARRI—CHAIRMAN of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, DESLU, Abraka branch, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, Tuesday, asked the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, to produce dead or alive, a female lecturer in the institution, Dr. Mercy Mokobia, who was kidnapped, April 9.
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Abductors demand N15m for lecturer’s son in Rivers

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HOSTAGE-takers have asked Dr. Godstime Ogbeoleka, Senior Lecturer with Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, IAUE, Rivers State, to cough out N15 million to buy freedom for his son, Thomas Ogbeoleka, who they kidnapped Wednesday afternoon.
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University lecturer abducted in Delta

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lecturer of Science Education in the Delta State University, Abraka, Dr Mercy Mokobia has been abducted by yet unknown gunmen.
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Uyo Varsity lecturers to down tools over colleague’s abduction

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UYO—Academic activities at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, may be grounded, if the abductors of Dr. Ime Udotong, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry, fail to release her, members of the institution’s branch of Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU-UUB, have threatened.
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Gunmen kidnap female lecturer

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A female lecturer at the University of Uyo, Dr Ime Udotong, was on Friday night kidnapped by gunmen in front of her resident on Idoro Road in Uyo, an eyewitness said on Saturday.
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Abducted lecturer mistaken for govt official

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The abducted University of Maiduguri lecturer, Dr Abba Kagu, said to have been kidnapped on Saturday by gunmen in Maiduguri was reportedly mistaken for an in-law of a top official of Borno State government prompting his abductors to demand N5million from his family, it was learnt.
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Gunmen kidnap senior lecturer in Maiduguri

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Dr Abba Kagu, a senior lecturer at the University of Maiduguri was abducted on Saturday evening by unknown gunmen in Maiduguri, eyewitnesses and security sources have said.
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Varsity staff kidnapped in Delta

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TREASURER of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, Delta State University, Abraka chapter, Mr Martins Denedo has been abducted by gunmen.
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Kidnapped doctors freed

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TWO medical doctors, kidnapped in Delta State, last weekend, which forced their colleagues to down tools for two days have been released.
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KIdnappers demand N50m for OOUTH lecturer

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ABEOKUTA – abductors of Dr. (Mrs) Olusola Otulana, a lecturer at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, who was kidnapped last Friday, have allegedly insisted on collecting a N50 million ransom before releasing her.
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Gunmen kidnap FUTA lecturer

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A lecturer in the Department of Meteorology of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, Dr Tunji Akinlabi, has been kidnapped by gunmen numbering about six.
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Kidnapped GG Darah’s daughter released

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NINE-year- old daughter of Prof G.G Darah, who was kidnapped on February 18, 2011, Miss Erere Darah, has been released after 12 days in the den of her kidnappers.
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Irate varsity students humiliate randy lecturer

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A randy lecturer at Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo State, who allegedly specialises in threatening female students with “Carry-Over”, was yesterday given the beating of his life by irate students.
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UNIBEN lecturers protest kidnap of colleague

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ACTIVITIES at the University of Benin was Wednesday paralysed following the kidnapping of a lecturer of the institution, Dr. Emmanuel Aigbokhan of the Department of Agriculture on Saturday by unknown gunmen.
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South-West forests now preferred crime scenes?

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BEFORE now, the perception that kidnapping is more prevalent in the South East and South South geo-political zones, was perhaps not in doubt.
But there seems to be a paradigm shift as the trend is tilting towards the South West than any other region in Nigeria.
Kidnapping in the region, prior to now, was alien.
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