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Security forces rescued 15 passengers, including children and road safety officials, following a daring gun battle with kidnappers in Kogi State. The operation highlights the ongoing struggle for safety on high-risk transport corridors in North-Central Nigeria.
Security forces have intensified search and rescue operations across the Okene-Ajaokuta forest axis to rescue victims abducted along the Okene-Auchi Road. The joint mission is utilizing drone technology and ground troops to flush out criminals from suspected hideouts.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Safiya Salihu and Halima Abdullahi, the mother and sister of slain bandit kingpin Kachallah Ibrahim Battujo, to 40 years imprisonment each for transmitting information to him and concealing his activities from security agencies.
Five travellers kidnapped from an Abuja-Lagos night bus walked free after 17 days in captivity when relentless Nigerian Army air and ground operations in Kogi's forests forced fleeing bandits to abandon their captives.
