The wife of Olugbenga Ale, chief of staff to Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, has been abducted. She was reportedly abducted at Owena in Idanre local government area of the state on Thursday night, while in the company of four other women who were traveling from Lagos. A family source said her vehicle was stopped and she was whisked away alongside two other persons. Information provided by the source reveals that one of the passengers fled into the bush while Ale’s wife, her driver, and one other woman were not so lucky.

Men of the Nigeria Police Force soon get what they have been clamoring for as information has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved salary increment for them. According to a report by Daily post, the salary increment cuts across all ranks of the force. The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, journeyed on Thursday to Ogun State in an effort to boost the morale of police officers after the attack on them during the recent End SARS protest. While addressing officers of the Ogun Police Command, the AIG urged personnel not to feel demoralised the attacks perpetrated on some of them during the protest.

Bothered by the state of insecurity in the land, the Senate has tasked its committee on communication to invite the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami to discuss the resolution of the senate regarding his Ministry. The decision was necessitated by the growing insecurity in the land, according to Ezrel Tabiowo, Special Assistant to Senate president on press. Lamenting under order 42 and 52 of the red chamber over the rise of insecurity, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha (PDP Taraba South) noted that, the insecurity of the land is at the brink of collapsing. Bwacha said, it was obvious as it has unveiled itself in the form of kidnapping, banditry, assassination and other sundry crimes.

Lagos State Governor, Mr.Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged citizens not to allow fifth columnists or external forces threaten or undermine their wellbeing and security. Sanwo-Olu spoke in Ikeja, on Tuesday, during a Stakeholders Engagement on Internal Security and Conflict Resolution across the Country.

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed worry over the unabated insecurity that has continued to take its toll on the northern part of the country. The group condemned in strong terms the endless killing that is consuming the north in their number.

Armed men suspected to be kidnappers on Monday invaded the Staff Quarters of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria and abducted one of their staff Dr. Ibrahim Bako, a lecturer in the Department of Physiology. The invaders picked him, his wife and daughter at their residence on Sardauna Cresent, Area BZ, main Campus, Samaru, Zaria, about 12:50am. In a press release by the University, it was disclosed that the University Security Division swiftly alerted the police who went after them up to Kasuwar Da’a village bordering the University, the kidnappers then released the wife and the daughter and went away with the husband.