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Gunmen Abduct Nigerian Immigration Service Spokeswoman In Benin By Kayode Ajiboye Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Benin City. According to sources, the NIS spokeswoman, Mrs. Bridget Esene was waylaid and whisked off by the gun-wielding gang on her way to Church at Ikhueniro area of the state capital on Sunday, January 24, 2021. An eyewitness recounted that the incid...

Share Members of the family of the kidnapped Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Bridget Esene, have expressed grave worry over the silence of her abductors more than 24 hours after she was kidnapped. Esene, it would be recalled, was kidnapped on Sunday morning on her way to church at Agbor Road axis of Benin City by some gunmen who have since remained incommunicado. Esene’s family’s worry arose from the unusual silence from...

Adibe Emenyonu in Benin-city The Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Immigrations Service (NIS), Mrs. Bridget Esene, was reportedly kidnapped by gunmen yesterday on her way to church. The gunmen were said to have trailed her when she was going to church on Sunday morning around Ikhueniro area, off Agbor Road in Benin-city, where she was accosted and dragged out of her car and taken into the kidnappers’ waiting vehicle to an unknown destination. As at press time, ...

 BENIN CITY – THE Public Relations Officer, Edo State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs. Bridget Esene has been

… places reward of up to N250, 000 for information leading to rearrest of escapee prisoners Edo State Government has opened a portal for members of the public to submit credible information that could lead to the arrest of fleeing inmates from two Medium Security Correctional Centres (MSCC) in Benin City, the state capital. This is even as it placed a reward of up to N250,000 for information that could lead to the rearrest of escapee prisoners. The State Government urged members of the public...

Punch Newspapers Sections inka Adedipe, Benin The Edo State Government has opened a portal for members of the public to submit credible information that will lead to the arrest of fleeing inmates from two correctional centres in Benin, the state capital. In a statement on Wednesday, the Managing Director Designate, Edo State Information Communication Technology Agency, Emmanuel Eweka, urged members of the public with useful information relating to the fleeing inmates to log into the portal: www...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin A coalition of civil society groups, Network of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria, on Thursday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the police to publish the names of detainees who escaped from the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Edo State Command on New Year Day. Addressing a press conference in Benin City, the Acting President of NOCSON, Ogbidi Emmanuel, and the group’s Director of Publicity, Bevy Efe, flanked by other members o...

Edo: NEMA partners FRSC, Red Cross on reducing road accidents On By Gabriel Enogholase, Benin As part of efforts to ensure accidents free celebration of the yuletide season in Edo state, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is collaborating with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and Nigeria Red Cross Society (RCS). Speaking during the flag-off the joint patrols along the Benin-Lagos road, NEMA Head of Benin Operations, Mr Dahiru Yusuf said the event was aimed at having emergency ...