Armed bandits have targeted Kogo village in Faskari Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State, kidnapping 16 residents, including children, women, and men. According to a local resident who spoke with our correspondent, the attack which was carried out at about 8:20pm yesterday, caught the villagers off guard as the assailants executed their plan with meticulous precision. “The hoodlums quietly infiltrated the community, parked their motorcycles at a distance to avoid detection. Without causing much uproar, the assailants targeted a residence and eventually took away 16 people comprising of children, women, and men. The community is now grappling with fear…

A Hong Kong finance worker at a multinational company was tricked into transferring $25 million to scammers after attending a video conference with deepfake CFO and several colleagues. Hong Kong police recently reported that it is investigating an elaborate scam that saw a group of bad actors defraud a multinational firm of $200 million Hong Kong dollars ($25.6 million) using deepfake technology to impersonate company management during a video call. Fraudsters initially targeted one of the unnamed company’s finance workers with an email from the company’s UK-based chief financial officer (CFO). Seeing that the message involved a ‘secret transaction’ to…

At least 13 passengers have been abducted by gunmen in Kogi state. The passengers, who were said to have been travelling from the south-east to Abuja, were kidnapped in Inyele Eteke, Olalamaboro LGA, on Saturday. The gunmen reportedly hijacked the vehicles before abducting the occupants. William Aya, police spokesperson in Kogi, confirmed the development to our correspondent Monday night. Aya said the incident involved a GIGM bus carrying 12 passengers and a vehicle owned by ABC Transport with two occupants. The police spokesperson said the driver of the GIGM bus has been rescued by security operatives. “Efforts are on to…

Parents of five abducted pupils of the Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti on Sunday said they went through a tedious journey before securing the release of their children. The abducted five pupils of the school were released on Sunday after the kidnappers collected a N15m ransom. Apart from the ransom, the kidnappers insisted on collecting fried rice, energy drinks and cigarettes. The school proprietor, Gabriel Adesanya, told The PUNCH that the driver was killed. According to him, the corpse of the driver, who was kidnapped alongside the pupils and staff members of the school, has yet to be…