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  • Chicago woman bags 50 years jail for killing pregnant teenager

    Chicago woman bags 50 years jail for killing pregnant teenager

    Chicago woman, Clarisa Figueroa, 51, accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly five years ago has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.

    According to Associated Press on Wednesday, Figueroa received the sentence in a Cook County courtroom Tuesday after she pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez.

    According to prosecutors, Figueroa enticed 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, who was nine months pregnant at the time, to her home on April 23, 2019, under the pretense of offering free clothing for her unborn child, only to then strangle her with a cable.

    Subsequently, Figueroa dialed 911, falsely claiming she had given birth and that the child was not breathing.

    The child died about two months later.

    Yovanny Lopez, the husband of the victim Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and father of their child Yovanny Jadiel Lopez, described how the tragedy affected him and the couple’s older child, Joshua, who he said “has lost his mother forever.”

    “The memory of my infant son’s last breath in my arms is complete agony,” he said in a statement read in Spanish and English in the courtroom. “… God’s justice will be served upon you the day you die.”

    Authorities allege that shortly after the passing of Figueroa’s adult son from natural causes, she told her family she was pregnant. They said that she schemed for months to obtain a newborn, even going as far as posting an ultrasound and images of a nursery decorated for a baby on her Facebook profile.

    It is claimed that in March 2019, she and Marlen Ochoa-Lopez connected via a Facebook group designated for expectant mothers.

    Detectives investigating Ochoa-Lopez’s disappearance learned that she had gone to the defendant’s home. Two weeks after her disappearance, police found her car parked nearby.

    Detectives probing into Ochoa-Lopez’s disappearance discovered that she had visited the defendant’s home.

    Approximately two weeks following her disappearance, law enforcement found her vehicle parked nearby and was told by Desiree Figueroa, Clarisa’s daughter, that her mother had recently given birth.

    Subsequent DNA tests confirmed that the child was not biologically related to Clarisa Figueroa.

    Ochoa-Lopez’s body was discovered in a garbage can outside the Figueroa residence.

    Police and prosecutors said Figueroa tricked her boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, into believing he was the father of the child.

    Bobak, who cleaned up the crime scene, was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice last year.

    Desiree Figueroa, aged 29, pleaded guilty to murder in January for her involvement in assisting her mother and received a 30-year prison sentence. She had also agreed to testify against her mother as part of her plea agreement.

     

  • EFCC threatens to arrest ex-gov Yahaya Bello with soldiers

    EFCC threatens to arrest ex-gov Yahaya Bello with soldiers

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has vowed to arrest the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, and bring him before the Federal High Court Abuja for arraignment to answer to the charges preferred against him.

    This came on the heels of Bello’s counsel, Abdulwahab Muhammed, SAN, refusing to be served in the place of his client who is on the run from the EFCC.

    The anti-graft agency, while addressing the court on Thursday through its team of lawyers led by Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, stressed that operatives would execute the arrest warrant against the former governor even if it has to be done by the use of force.

    Pinheiro said, “We have to arraign him in court even if we have to use the military. Immunity is only attached to a person and not the building.

    “The law allows to break down walls to arrest an evading defendant. Section 284 says all persons are to obey the service of charge.”

    Pinheiro had narrated to the court how all efforts to get Bello arrested and bring him before the court for arraignment were obstructed by “someone with immunity.”

    “My Lord, I have made an oral application, and I tried to get him arrested yesterday but was prevented by someone with immunity.

     

    He said, “My Lord, what happened yesterday was that he was whisked away by a person with immunity, and we know he is in the home of that person. We will send security agents there to get him even if we have to break in because immunity is not attached to a building.

    “If he wants to play games, we will show him that the Constitution is above every individual, and you cannot fight the Constitution.”

    Pinheiro continued, “A former President of the United States was charged to court, and he has been appearing for his trial. He did not file all sorts of things to frustrate the case.

    “A former governor is filing a fundamental human rights suit. If he says he is innocent, let him come and prove it instead of filing frivolous applications to delay his trial.”

    Responding, Bello’s counsel, Muhammed, informed the court that his client had obtained an order from a High Court in Kogi State restraining the anti-graft agency from inviting, arresting or prosecuting him over the instant charge against him.

    “Respectfully, My Lord, the defendant had approached a court for his fundamental human right. The High Court in Kogi State,” he said.

    Muhammed held that the court had no jurisdiction to do any other thing rather than to take his client’s motion, challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the subsisting charge.

    He faulted the EFCC ‘s move to try to get Bello arrested in his Abuja residence while judgment was being delivered on the fundamental human rights suit.

    “What happened at Zone 4 Abuja yesterday, where they laid siege to the house of the former governor while he was in Lokoja waiting for judgment in his fundamental right enforcement suit, was unfortunate You don’t issue a warrant against a defendant who is already before the court and who has also briefed lawyers to defend him.

    “They wanted the Court of Appeal to vacate the restraining order, but the Appeal Court refused.

    “That a court gave an order in the morning, and another court of the same coordinate jurisdiction issues a contrary order in the evening is an invitation to anarchy. The defendant is not a fugitive. He is relying on an order of court to take protection,” Muhammed argued.

    He told the court that the issue of arraignment shouldn’t be the bone of contention when his client had not been served.

    “We don’t need the arraignment to take place. Your Lordship has to determine the issue of jurisdiction first because it is a threshold issue.

    “Moreover, we are yet to be served with any process by the prosecution. You cannot be talking of arraignment when you have not been served,” Bello’s counsel cautioned.

    Meanwhile, all efforts to serve Bello’s counsel in the courtroom by the EFCC lawyer were met with stiff rejection as he insisted that he had no authority to take the charge.

    Pinheiro said that since Bello’s counsel was in court on behalf of his client, he would proceed to serve him.

    “We will now make our service to the counsel who has unconditionally announced his appearance for the defendant,” Pinheiro  said.

    Responding, Muhammed stated, “My Lord, we will accept their service if they bring a formal application, not a process.”

    Muhammed then told the court they would be challenging the arrest warrant.

    After listening to both parties, Justice Emeka Nwite adjourned the matter till Tuesday, April 23, 2024, for ruling and arraignment.

  • Finally, they came for Bobrisky, a must read

    Finally, they came for Bobrisky, a must read

    At an academic conference some years ago, two students walked up to me after learning I was a Nigerian.They had based their academic projects on popular cross-dresser Idris Okunenye (Bobrisky) and they wanted to know a few things about her. Bobrisky was still a straw weight then but was not ignorable. One of them asked how she survives a Nigeria virulently opposed to any display of nonconforming sexuality. I opined that Bobrisky’s survival partly owes to the internet, particularly its feature that allows virtually any sight to escalate into a spectacle made Bobrisky one we could view remotely from the display show glass of our phone screens. That distance also put her out of the physical reach and social orbit where she could be harmed.

    Then the other factor was money. The Bobrisky character implicitly understood something about Nigeria: for all our claims about “African values and morals,” we worship money. A universal solvent, money dissolves even our strongest claims of virtue. With money, you can regulate the collective moral temperature. So, Bobrisky did not appear on the social scene as a stereotypical cross-dresser appealing to public conscience for acceptance. She spurned acceptance and made her own brash rules of public engagement. Elsewhere, people who transition their gender take up an activist cause to fight the power (or the establishment) on behalf of other marginalised people. Not Bobrisky. On the social scene, she was a glammed-up doll, a made-for-contemporary-feminism Barbie doll that rolls in wads of cash. Bobrisky also talked about a “bae,” another tactic. Knowing that you are not a figure of power in the Nigerian political culture if you cannot claim the backing of some shadowy forces, she had to claim a male sponsor. It does not matter if those shadow backers exist or not. What counts is how much Bobrisky understood Nigeria, and how she mirrored us back to ourselves. It was a tactic that worked for her until it did not.

    One day in the future when Bobrisky’s history is written, someone might say her undoing began when she stepped forward to collect an award meant for biological women. But the precedent will be how her glamorous existence as a woman undermined the ultimate symbol of masculinity: the penis. Bobrisky was a man who, by transitioning into a woman, proved that manhood was not the ultimate prize that men have long been socialised into believing. By whittling down manhood and opting for feminity, she treated the penis as another gift of nature that you could accept or reject. For men whose entire identity revolves around the thing between their legs, Bobrisky was an abomination. How can nature give you this thing, and you dare not venerate it? It was even worse for them that Bobrisky did not only become feminised but she was also living as a woman who possesses something beyond biology that a man needs in order to be called a man: economic power. For men whose claims to masculinity are daily abridged by the emasculating Nigerian economy, Bobrisky’s gender fluidity and wealth must have been torture. She was not the regular woman against whom they could measure their masculinity. That is why Portable’s song about Bobrisky being a “disgrace to Brotherhood” resonated with them.

    When men could not take the affront to their dear penis anymore, they came up with the most spurious charge against Bobrisky. It was not that hard. Nigeria has a collection of judicial enforcers—from the police to the Department of State Services, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and even judges—who wield immense power but hardly match it up with either a sense of moral responsibility or an understanding of the spirit of democracy. For people who operate in bad faith, they have a lot of power. When Bobrisky stood in front of the judge and pled guilty, she must have expected a judge who would treat her like any other person and not the one who would see her as a personification of destabilised masculinity.

    By saying she was a “male” when the judge asked, Bobrisky must have thought she could assuage the judge’s slighted sensibilities. Unfortunately, she never had a fighting chance in that court. Judging from the harshness of the sentence she was given, one could tell that the judge was fighting some other culture war. If a death sentence had been listed on the books, this judge would not have hesitated to hand it out. A judge who sentences someone to prison for a “sin” virtually every Nigerian routinely commits must lack the fear of God. Now, the EFCC tells us that public members are bombarding them with video recordings of abuse of the Naira by Nigerians from all walks of life. This will be the way witchcraft will operate in Nigeria now. Rather than people taking the names of those whose lives they have secretly envied to awon ìyá mi òsòròngà, they will report to the EFCC. Since the EFCC too needs the clown show to distract us from the government’s economic failures, we will be entertained all night.

    Bobrisky’s case is an intriguing example of our society’s obsession with the penis. After she was arrested, people asked if her dress could be lifted for them to see what was under. Even after she was jailed, they still followed up to inquire what was between her legs. Prison warders who should have told off the journalist who formally inquired to mind their business gave details of Bobrisky’s genitals. The journalist publishes it, several media/blogs happily reproduce it, and you see them circulating the news to rejoice they have humiliated a defector. Sick voyeurs! If not madness, what is your business with someone’s genitals? Imagine calling Kirikiri when Senator Orji Kalu or Bode George was incarcerated and asking about their private parts. You look at the level of obsession with another person’s private parts and realise that, for all the self-glorying assertions about our allegedly superior African values, we are a people who severely lack the notion of human dignity.

    The toughest part of the Bobrisky issue has been watching people who call themselves critics, social advocates, and moralists justify (and even celebrate) the judicial abuse that landed Bobrisky in jail. Some of them claim they are trying to protect women, but it is a lie. Let me say that every single time I have read someone say Bobrisky accepting an award meant for a woman was “a slap on the face of actual/biological women,” it has come from a man. Not women, men. I have never felt insulted by what Bobrisky does, but I get grossly irritated by the paternalism of men who arrogate to themselves the power to define what insults “every woman.” You would think those men care about women, but wait until the National Assembly says it is time to pass a bill defending women’s rights. They simply want him gone because his non-confirming gender identity unsettles them. I will not be quick to call them hypocrites, but I will at least say that they have not thought through either their own politics or ideologies.

    When issues are about abstract political issue—corruption, certificateless president, election rigging, IPOB/Biafra, terrorism, banditry, tribalism, Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, and so on—their moral clarity is almost unimpeachable. When it comes to the right to express the freedom of the human spirit as Bobrisky does, they suddenly become self-contradicting. They want human freedom, but their imagination cannot stretch beyond what is merely convenient. And that constriction of possibilities is exactly where the problem lies. Look, a society can survive the ignorance (and amorality) of its masses who want to see what is underneath the skirt of cross-dressers. But no society can stand when the ideological vision of humanity of its supposed band of thinkers, judicial enforcers, and moral advocates is too narrow to accommodate the diverse range of humanity.

     

     

     

  • JUST IN: EFCC declares Yahaya Bello wanted

    JUST IN: EFCC declares Yahaya Bello wanted

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, wanted for offences relating to economic and financial crimes.

    This was contained in a notice posted on the commission’s official Facebook page on Thursday.

    “Former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, is wanted by the EFCC for offences relating to economic and financial crimes to the tune of N80.2 bn.

    “Anybody with information as to his whereabouts should report immediately to the commission or the nearest police station,” the notice read.

    Details later…

     

     

  • FG to execute $3.8bn gas supply agreement in May

    FG to execute $3.8bn gas supply agreement in May

    The Gas Supply and Purchase Agreement to support the Final Investment Decision for the $3.8bn Brass methanol project is to be executed in May 2024, the Federal Government announced on Monday.

    The Brass methanol project is a major industrial project being built in Bayelsa State to produce methanol, a key industrial chemical, using natural gas resources. Nigeria currently imports all its methanol.

    Located in Brass Island, Bayelsa, the facility is to have a capacity of 10,000 tonnes of methanol per day when completed, as it is still under construction and expected to be operational this year.

    The $3.8bn is to create up to 15,000 jobs during construction and aims to boost the Nigerian economy by reducing reliance on imports.

    This project is a joint venture between DSV Engineering Limited, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, and the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board.

    The Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, announced the execution date for the gas supply agreement in Abuja on Wednesday after a meeting with key stakeholders of the project in his office.

    Ekpo, in a statement issued by his media aide, Louis Ibah, said the meeting was to confirm adequate gas supply to the Brass methanol project by the NNPC/Shell/TotalEnergies/NAOC Joint Venture.

    He said the meeting was to also determine the next steps to conclude and execute the GSPA and mature the phase-2 of gas supply to the project.

    Present at the meeting were the Head of Joint Venture, Investment Management, NNPC Upstream Investment Management Services, Mr Olanrewaju Igandan; and Deputy Managing Director, Nigerian Agip Oil Company, Mr Richard Orianzi.

    Others include the Managing Director, Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria, Mr Osagie Okunbor; Managing Director of Brass Fertiliser and Petrochemical Ltd, Mr Ben Okoye, among others.

    Ekpo informed the gathering of President Bola Tinubu’s strong interest in resolving issues relating to gas supply to the Brass methanol project.

    According to the Minister,  the President was passionate about the speedy kick-off of the project so that it could bring in the much needed Foreign Direct Iinvestment with attendant economic benefits to the country.

    “Mr President is very passionate about this project and wants something positive to happen in respect of the Brass methanol project before the end of May this year,” Ekpo said.

    The Brass methanol project is sponsored by Brass Fertiliser & Petrochemical Company Limited and it is made up of a gas processing plant, a methanol production and refining plant, product export facilities, among others.

    At the end of the meeting, Ekpo announced he had successfully resolved the GSPA issue and that it would be executed by May this year.

    “The NNPC/SPDC JV partners are now fully committed to uninterrupted gas supply for the development of the Brass methanol project,” the gas minister stated.

     

  • Tinubu: Heavy punishment awaits persons threatening Nigeria’s unity

    Tinubu: Heavy punishment awaits persons threatening Nigeria’s unity

    President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, promised harsh consequences for persons who pit themselves against Nigeria’s sovereignty and security.

    He also said his administration had made considerable gains against banditry and kidnapping through intensified campaigns buoyed by intelligence gathering.

    “Those who think they can threaten the sovereignty of Nigeria will have themselves to blame. They have a price to pay. And we are not going to relent,” Tinubu said when he received leaders of the Yoruba socio-political Organisation, Afenifere, at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday.

    The delegation was led by the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Oba Olu Falae, and other eminent citizens.

    The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, revealed the details of Wednesday’s talks in a statement titled, ‘President Tinubu receives leaders of Afenifere, says the administration is resolute in achieving economic security in a fair and equitable system for all Nigerians.’

    Speaking on security, the President declared that those who threatened the sovereignty of Nigeria would pay a heavy price.

    The declaration by Tinubu came days after Yoruba Nation agitators, dressed in military camouflage and armed with guns, stormed the Oyo State Government Secretariat, attempting to hoist the Yoruba Nation flag on the premises of the Oyo State House of Assembly.

    The Yoruba Nation promoters are seeking the breakaway of the Yoruba people from the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

    They contended that the interest of the Yoruba people had not been adequately protected in Nigeria, saying their welfare would be better taken care of under a separate sovereign entity to be known as Yoruba Nation.

    But Tinubu speaking on Wednesday, vowed to keep Nigeria as one.

    The President said, “I am irrevocably committed to the unity of Nigeria and constitutional democracy. Constitutional democracy has been reflected greatly here since we assumed office. What we face now is the challenge of terrorism.

    “Security of life and property is necessary for development. I can tell you we are achieving success. We have degraded terrorism to a level that it can no longer threaten Nigeria’s sovereignty.

    “Banditry and kidnapping will be defeated. And there is no payment of ransom whatsoever. We are taking the battle to them. We are getting results more rapidly than before. We are working hard on intelligence gathering.”

    The President said his administration was re-engineering Nigeria’s finances and seeking to boost citizens’ purchasing power and spread prosperity by instituting a credit system where the element of cash does not impede a significantly enhanced standard of living for all citizens.

    He argued that Nigeria must first secure itself economically before achieving its more sophisticated objectives.

    “We are committed to our country’s economic survival. To re-engineer our country’s finances, we must start in earnest,” he explained.

    According to Tinubu, this will require first retooling, revamping the economic opportunities available, and continuing to take the necessary firm, steady baby steps.

    “Education is a strong weapon against poverty. To empower the people, we must invest in the future of our youths.

    “We have seen the problems parents face in training their children in school; it is why we established the National Student Loan Programme, which is taking off well,” he explained.

    He assured the Yoruba leaders that his administration would emphasise the Consumer Credit Scheme and provide allowances for the unemployed to reduce the high unemployment rate.

    “We must help vulnerable people by providing social security.

    “We are looking at how to provide allowances for the unemployed, and we are developing ways to boost the purchasing power of citizens with the Consumer Credit Scheme.

    “If we remove the cash upfront element to buy a car or a house, we will reduce the propensity for fraud and corruption across the land,” President Tinubu said.

    He thanked the delegation for their prayers and support and assured them he would not relent in his resolve to advance Nigeria.

    “God bless Nigeria. God bless our unity; our diversity must bring prosperity for all for the sake of Nigeria,” Tinubu concluded.

    Earlier in his remarks, Oba Olu Falae commended the President for his courageous decisions, the rehabilitation of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, and other critical ongoing projects.

    Oba Falae urged the President not to relent in ensuring fairness and equity for all Nigerians while noting the importance of a constitutional amendment to devolve more powers to the states.

    He said, “We are delighted about what you are doing for our country, and we assure you of our continued support.

    “We thank you for visiting Akure in February 2024 and believe it is proper to reciprocate your kind gesture.

    “We appreciate this relationship, and we need to make it work in the interest of Nigeria.”

    Describing President Tinubu as the most important political figure in Africa, the monarch conveyed the elders’ expectations of him to lead the country with knowledge, courage and integrity.

    “We have no doubt that your tenure will mark a turning point in our country’s history. Under your leadership, Nigeria will be repositioned,” he said.

    The Afenifere Chief also promised firm support for the President, saying, “We will stand by you as you make all efforts to improve the Nigeria story. Be assured that Afenifere will not abandon you in fair or foul weather. As long as you remain faithful to the principles of fairness, integrity, and courage expected of you as the leader of Nigeria, we will stand by you.”

  • Nigerian lady claims Junior Pope did not drown, shares dream she had

    Nigerian lady claims Junior Pope did not drown, shares dream she had

    Nigerian lady has claimed that Junior Pope visited her in a dream and told her that he did not drown in the river.

    In the video shared on TikTok by @mxtaxcoded, the woman claimed that Pope told her that he was killed before being thrown into the river.

    According to the woman, the actor asked her to tell the world, that he was beaten, his clothes were torn, and that it was not the river that killed him.

    The woman added that the people who killed him had already planned his death and because of their evil plans other innocent souls were lost.

    In her words: He said that he has been watching people he took as his brothers lie to cover up what they did to him. He can’t believe that people he went to shoot movie with could do that to him. Junior Pope’s spirit is crying that it was not the river that killed him.

    “Spread this video wide so that everyone can hear it. He’s still crying and calling on his fans, loved ones, wife, and children to let them know that it was not the river that killed but he was killed by people. This was what he told me in the dream.”

    DALUSON reacted: “Omo I swear no swelling body bcos i know how my cousin bro that drown in water how his dead body look like.”

    @peculiar fashion world said: “He is cloth was tured and he was bleeding through the nose and mouth, no swelling Tommy íeì (e t justice for junior pope.”

    ExcelBelive reacted: “Mugu.. what of other persons that died, who killed them?”

    Sandy commented: “Exactly what I saw in my dream after his death. I wish people will believe her.”

    Gwen baby reacted: “The water will throw the person three time before he will drown to death. the cloth and the blood is the signs when he was struggling to live.”

    Success commented: “How can someone who was given gallon and was asking his colleagues if they are fine drawn.”

    Baby_Blinkz reacted: “So he cannot meet his wife??? Mk Una rest please…were was he beaten inside hotel or arund the river??”

    Onyi-Igbo reacted: “He came to her to tell her dat he was beaten to death den the confusing thing is him not telling her who killed her. Why telling her to tell people to go and find out??? I no just understand.”

     

  • Video shows heartwarming moment man reunited with father after 9 years abroad

    Video shows heartwarming moment man reunited with father after 9 years abroad

    Young man has shared a video showcasing the heartwarming moment he reunited with his father after nine years abroad.

    The man identified as @akuraymond9 on TikTok was heard screaming ‘daddy’ with joy as he ran to give his father a hug.

    He revealed that it was the first time he was seeing his father for the past nine years.

    The heartwarming reunion has ignited lots of reactions from viewers.

    Softies said: “The shouting of Daddy hit my heart na today my Daddy demis pain me again.”

    @libaby reacted: “That name Daddy is priceless, na your father born u nam, welcome home in good health, isee.”

    ChiomzyEmpire said: “We’ll re still babies in front our parents little jumping and hugging.”

    Kings said: “Na me remain ooh but e know go pass this year sha Heaven done sign am.”

    Sonia Nassy reacted: “That joy, may the happiness never depart from ur home.”

    Betty diamond said: “Congratulations dear.”

    Chii8 said: “Who be this camera person abeg?”

    @chacha_mila said: “You guys are really lucky to have one, as for me l don’t know how father’s love feels like or brother’s love.”

     

     

  • White lady plays happily in the village after her man brought her to Nigeria

    White lady plays happily in the village after her man brought her to Nigeria

    Nigerian man has left netizens in stitches after sharing a video of his oyinbo wife playing in his village.

    The funny man shared a hilarious clip of the white lady running around the road with her slippers in her hands

    The man identified TikTok as @mspunyafatih1 praised the lady while revealing that he never thought could run that fast.

    Netizens who watched the video admired the interracial love they shared and asked how they could get white partners for themselves.

    @chisomokechukwu98 said: “This one is even better than all those one that used to marry their grandmother.”

    Abimbola reacted: “Cute sha make wonna help use find Oyinbo husband.”

    @user6825808659526 reacted: “Bro which baba do am for you, cus I need fine one like this.”

    @humbleshockerO reacted: “Why ur wife dy do like oyinbo princess.”

    @edubrazil15 said: “Cuteness overload.”

    MAJIC said: “My guy make them no use juju marry am from ur hand oh,na village u dey so or maybe u just visit sha.”

    @chinnybardie said: “Your baby is beautiful, thank God you no carry grandma come back.”

    Watch the video below:

    https://www.tiktok.com/@mspunyafatih1/video/7356505110882553094?_r=1&_d=secCgYIASAHKAESPgo8c8iQNFnW8r%2Bw3kcTXJX7mFvupMEJkAr%2B30AHDGTjb38HRzBVlvcfXk82IyuWEDDEJ%2BsCBEiaG9WPsBUWGgA%3D&checksum=a330c8ff591329d5979650b8b07954115d72a1cbe067aa54bea0e9a7fbca0d86&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAABTzXrgB37FCujprS-MSY2lczOknpkeutta0GQV2PUBLDvg_LfVL7ho2kCFTRFu7L&share_app_id=1340&share_item_id=7356505110882553094&share_link_id=8fb3573d-e7d8-4a89-b62e-6f567a31f536&sharer_language=en&source=h5_m&timestamp=1713405761&u_code=e24kkf14da914b&ugbiz_name=Main&user_id=7105015287032071174&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_source=copy

     

  • FG — Over 1,000 kidnapped victims so far rescued without ransom

    FG — Over 1,000 kidnapped victims so far rescued without ransom

    THE National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu under (FG), on Monday, said the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has so far rescued over 1,000 kidnap victims without paying a ransom.

    Ribadu said this when he received 22 students and staff of the Federal University of Gusau, Zamfara State, rescued on Sunday.

    The bandits had, on September 22, 2023, invaded the institution and abducted over 30 students and members of staff.

    The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Mani Mummuni, who was at the university to sympathise with the families and the school authorities over the incident, called on security agencies to hasten the rescue of the kidnapped students.

    In a press statement, the spokesperson for the Zamfara State Police Command, Yazid Abubakar, assured that the command would ensure the rescue of all the kidnapped students, as it had deployed an additional tactical team for search-and-rescue operations.

    The police noted that “On September 22, 2023, at about 0250hrs, suspected bandits, riding on about 50 motorcycles, armed with sophisticated weapons, invaded three students’ rented apartments in Sabon Gida Village near the Federal University, Gusau and kidnapped an unspecified number of students, taking them to an unknown destination.”

    Seven of the students were rescued while two escaped, leaving 22 others in captivity.

    On Sunday, the 22, comprising 15 students and seven workers of the university, were rescued in an exercise coordinated by the National Counter-Terrorism Centre.

    Speaking while receiving the students in Abuja, the NSA appreciated the security operatives for rescuing the students “without losing anyone of them or paying any ransom.”

    He said, “On behalf of the President, I thank all those involved in the successful rescue of the victims without losing anyone of them or paying any ransom.

    “This is yet again a success story in our efforts to free all those being unlawfully held in captivity.

    “We have so far released over a thousand such victims without noise and with complete respect to their privacy and safety.

    “This occasion marks a final juncture in a series of rescues we have undertaken in the last few months, to free victims of recent cases of mass abductions.

    “Going forward, we are strengthening law enforcement and security measures to prevent these abductions and strengthen physical security across vulnerable communities.”

    Ribadu urged the students and university workers not to allow their experience to break them, but should rather make them stronger.”

    In March, the military rescued 137 students kidnapped from Kaduna State, with the Federal Government saying no ransom was paid, despite that the bandits demanded N1bn.

    The NSA also thanked the parents of the rescued victims for their patience and understanding during the period and commended security agencies for their sacrifices.

    Earlier, the National Coordinator, NCTC, Maj-Gen Adamu Laka (retd.), said search and rescue operations conducted by security agencies led to the release of the students in three batches.

    He said, “Search and rescue was conducted by a combined team of law enforcement agencies and the abductees were subsequently released in three batches, after 207 days in captivity.

    “The first batch was rescued on March 15 the second batch was rescued on April 12 and the last batch rescued on April 14.

    “All the abductees were profiled at NCTC while the ONSA Medical Team examined them and administered minor treatments on the bruises sustained by three of them.

    “Four of them were diagnosed with malaria and are being treated. None of the females was molested and all the females tested negative for pregnancy test.”