Checkpoints or Tollgates?
Yesterday, Sunday 22nd June 2025, I was on my usual pastoral run, this time to one of my Outstations. As I drove through the Ubiaja/Illushi road, something caught my attention; and no, it wasn’t the beautiful greenery or the cries of market women…
CLASSROOM TEACHER, WIFE, KIDNAPPED ALONG EWATTO-UBIAJA ROAD, EDO STATE, NIGERIA
On this first Day of December, 2020, Festus Alenkhe reports that a classroom teacher, Paul Aluola and his wife are suspected to have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen around Ewatto axis in Esan South East local government area of Edo State, Nigeria.…
INSECURITY AND KIDNAPPING IN NIGERIA: WE’RE SITTING DUCKS!
Two nights ago, precisely on Saturday, 21st November, 2020, a Catholic Priest of the Archdiocese of Abuja was kidnapped. It was shocking enough that another priest had been kidnapped yet again. But what was more worrisome was the fact that he was picked…