A woman, identified only as Mama Oyin, has allegedly abducted a one-year-old girl, Fehintola Lawal, in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State.

Mama Oyin, who disguised as a customer, had on Saturday said she was willing to buy some items from Fehintola’s mother and grandmother, who were retailers in a shop in the Abule Egba area. The items were not available in the shop.

Mama Oyin was said to have returned on Monday around 11am to the shop, and reportedly begged for direction to where she could buy the items in Agege. Fehintola’s mother, Lola Lawal, had offered to go with Mama Oyin, who was said to be a friendly customer.

When Mama Oyin and Lola were about leaving, Fehintola fell asleep and the customer was said to have requested to strap her (Fehintola) to her back, while she (Mama Oyin) handed over her bag to Lola.

The women boarded a tricycle to Abattoir Junction, after which they took a commercial motorcycle to Oko Oba, Agege. When they alighted, they took separate motorcycles to the place where the items were said to be sold. When the motorcycles got to Olaniyi Street, the one boarded by Mama Oyin diverted to another street.

As the girl’s mother tried to pursue the customer, her motorcycle was said to have sped back to the Abule Egba Road, where she hurriedly crossed the road and took a tricycle. Since Monday, Mama Oyin and Fehintola had not been seen.

The matter was reported at the Abattoir and Elere police divisions the same day. Speaking with Punch Metro, Fehintola’s aunt, Lolade Oseni, said the bag Mama Oyin dropped with Lola was later discovered to contain papers cut to currency sizes packed into envelopes, adding that the phone numbers she gave them did not connect.

She said, “This woman met Lola on Saturday. She said she wanted to buy souvenirs, adding that she could also be supplying us goods. She said she was new to the area. Fehintola’s mother, Lola, and my own mother welcomed the customer. She played with them on Saturday before leaving for her supposed house. On Sunday, she came again and went with my mother to church, claiming that her church was far. She came to our house on Sunday.

“On Monday, she came again, saying she needed the souvenirs urgently. Mama and Fehintola’s mother offered to go to Agege with the woman to get the items. The girl became asleep while they were trying to board a tricycle. It was then that the woman offered to put Fehintola on her back.

“When they alighted, they took motorcycles and then another motorcycle. Later, they took separate motorcycles. That was when the woman escaped with Fehintola. The girl’s mother is distraught at the moment. We searched the bag Mama Oyin gave us and discovered that it contained papers, not money. The phone number she claimed to be using has not rung.”

The case has also been reported at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, and the office of the Police Public Relations Department, Ikeja.

Family members plan to visit the Ogun State Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Thursday (today) to extend their search for the girl.

The much anticipated autopsy report on late Ronke Shonde, the mother of two allegedly killed by her husband, Lekan, two weeks ago in Egbeda area of Lagos, during a scuffle, is out.

The report, as reliably gathered, reached detectives at about 8.45p.m. yesterday. Although police authorities kept mum over the content of the report, Vanguard was reliably informed that it attributed late Ronke Shonde’s death to some injuries in the head.

It also revealed that water clustered in her head. Again, the report which was reportedly signed by one Dr. Shoyemi, a Pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, disclosed that late Ronke Shonde died as a result of respiratory seizure.

But it ruled out the possibility of her death due to violent marks on her face. The autopsy was conducted last Thursday, with its result expected to be out in three days. But Vanguard was informed that it was delayed due to the absence of the Chief Pathologist, who reportedly travelled out of the country.

While he was being expected, an inconclusive report, which emerged Tuesday, however, showed that the bruises on the corpse could not establish the cause of her death.

However, sources said further medical checks finally attributed the cause of her death to “respiratory seizure as a result of water in the head and some injuries also in the head.”

With the report, sources said detectives would then continue with the next line of investigation, which reliably will include, among others, the mental stability of Lekan, who is still in their custody.

Recall that Lekan, who initially went into hiding after the incident, gave himself in to the Police in Lagos, where he denied culpability over his wife’s death. He was later transferred to the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department ,SCIID, Yaba.

Three girls have been saved from death after an evil pastor chained and locked them in a room for weeks to die.

They were rescued by an off duty constable, Mantwa Kekana (49) from Chiawelo, Soweto, Gauteng who revealed that the teens told a story of hunger and fear, and how they had escaped eventually ending up at the cop’s house.

Almost shedding tears, Mantwa said she was still in her pyjamas on Friday morning when she heard a knock at the door.

“I was greeted by three children aged between 14 and 15. They were crying and tired,” said the cop from Moroka Police Station.

“They couldn’t talk and they were shaking. I took them into the house.”

According to The DailySun ZA, Mantwa, who is known to one of the children, said she gave them a hot bath before feeding them.

“The three girls said they met at the church in Lenasia after they had been taken there by their parents. They had been there for about a month,” said Mantwa.

“The girls said they were given baked beans once a day, only at night, and they were always hungry.”

The children told police that the pastor chained them up and kept them in one room.

They also revealed that it was their parents that brought them to the church before leaving them there.

“We only went out on Sunday to go to church,” said one of the girls.

Very often they did not get food. They were given a sour liquid which gave them stomach aches. The children said they were taken to the church, a series of shacks with one central shack, at night.

“When the pastor starts praying, people fall down and speak in tongues. They sprinkle water around the church,” the girl said.

“It was very scary on the church premises.”

The kids said they escaped when one of the church members forgot to lock the door. They went outside and jumped the fence.

“We left other people there who were afraid to escape with us,” said the girl.

The kids said they believe they are being tracked.

“Wherever we are the pastor knows, and I am afraid he will track me down,” she said.

Police spokesman Captain Mpande Khoza said since there has been no official comment by the police station, they can’t comment.

Police took the children to their families.

“The parents of the teenagers must come to the police station to open cases on behalf of the children,” he said.

Earlier today, we reported that one of the missing 219 Chibok school girls was found and identified by the Joint Task Force officers assisting the fight against insurgency in the northeastern Nigeria.

Sahara Reporters confirms that the alleged husband is a Boko Haram commander.

Amina Nkeki was reportedly found around the Sambisa forest while she was breastfeeding her child, and after she was rescued and interrogated, the 19-year-old said that six of her mates died in captivity, and that the terrorist group which has held them in captivity for two years, shielded them from the military.

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Depression they say isn’t something to joke with.

Friends of the lady pictured above have been mourning her on social media. They said she committed suicide by drinking rat poising and left behind a suicide note.

This is sad.

The Chibok schoolgirl, Amina Nkeki, who was rescued today around Sambisa forest, was reportedly found breast feeding a child and has revealed that six of her colleagues have died in captivity, adding that their captors shielded them from the military.

A member of the strategic team of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement, Tunji Olarenwaju, disclosed that Nkeki made the revelations under interrogation.

“She is already breastfeeding a child. She said all of them are still in Sambisa forest, that six were already dead. She added that they are well secured and protected from the Nigerian army. She has been talking to troops at Damboa after verifying her to the Chibok Community at home,” Olanrewaju told TheCable news, adding that the chairman of the association of Chibok parents affirmed the identity of the girl.

The news of her release became public exactly 765 days after 276 students were abducted from their school. While 57 managed to escape, the whereabouts of 217 had been unknown all along.

One of the Chibok girls abducted by terrorist group, Boko Haram in 2014 has been found.

According to the BBC, one of the Chibok girls has been found, the first since their capture by Boko Haram militants in 2014, activists say.

Activists confirmed to the BBC that Amina Ali was found by a vigilante group on Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon. She was reportedly identified by a civilian fighter who recognised her.

Reports say that Amina, was found with a child with other women in Sambisa, following military operations told the civilian JTF members that she was taken from Chibok.

It would be recalled that about 276 girls were forcefully kidnapped from their secondary school in north-east Nigeria by the Islamist fighters in April 2014.

More details to follow…

Billionaire oil businessman, Femi Otedola’s Forte Oil Plc, on Wednesday, refuted multiple reports making rounds online and social media that it reduced its pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) to N115 per litre. (Below)

In a statement released by Nigeria’s foremost indigenous major marketer of refined petroleum products, Forte Oil via its Twitter handle @ForteOilNg, the firm said:

“Our attention has been drawn to a reduction in price to 115 NGN at our gas stations, This is false. Forte Oil Plc would use its official handles to inform its customers and the buying public of any price change. We therefore inform our customers and the buying public to ignore these false rumours as they are untrue and we disassociate ourselves from same.”

A shocking incident has led to the discovery of charms buried inside the compound of a pastor.

According to Osaz Apdm, the discovery was made yesterday. The incident happened in Nigeria.

He wrote on Instagram:

“WHEN GOD PROTECTS: See the evil we found yesterday in the open compound hidden by a tenant:- The guy says he is a pastor and using it to work for his God in “another man’s compound”.. lol. These are the same kind that come begging with half rent yet very desperate to destroy you… Jehovah protects and never fails at it… Don’t ask what was done to him. May God protect us all in Jesus Name…”

Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested 31-year-old Glory Dan, for the murder of her 75-year-old father, Mr. Bassey Udo.

The murder was said to have been reported to the police by the village head of Mbiakpan Atan, Chief Linus Okon, in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of the state.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Cordelia Nwawe, said on Tuesday that the crime was initially reported at ‘D’ Division Itam on May 10 and was subsequently transferred to SCID, Uyo on May 16 for investigation.

She said the complainant alleged that on May 10, at 1940hrs, he was in his house, when he received a call from one of his subjects that the suspect, one Glory Dan, female, broke into her father’s room, hit him (father) on the head with an object that caused his death.

Nwawe stated that following the report, the complainant and witnesses made their statements and revealed that the deceased was living alone in his house.

“That on May 10, at about 19:40 hours, the suspect armed with a stick, broke into the deceased’s room and hit him to death. They concluded that they heard the deceased screaming in his room; ‘Don’t kill me’.

“The suspect was arrested, cautioned and charged. She volunteered a statement confessing to the crime of murder. She stated further that she attacked the deceased because he was a wizard and also responsible for the death of her five children and two husbands,” she said.

Glory said, “My father has been responsible for the death of all my children, including my two husbands. It was my mother who revealed it to me in a dream when I washed my face and went to her tombstone and cried to her.”

[Punch Metro]

A preliminary autopsy report on late Ronke Shonde has said the victim was not killed by the marks of violence on her.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the result, which was still sketchy, showed that the cause of the death might be more complex than earlier thought.

Lekan, 51, allegedly beat his wife, Ronke, to death at their home in the Egbeda-Idimu area of the state last Thursday.

He instead accused Ronke of sleeping with one Kayode, the general manager of a publishing company where she worked as the human resources manager.

A source on Tuesday said the report was still being compiled, adding that only a phase had been completed.

He said, “As of now, the report showed that the marks of violence on the victim have nothing to do with her death. Other areas are still being explored. The actual thing that killed her has not been stated.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the police had yet to get the report.

She said, “I just spoke with the people in charge now and they said the result is not complete yet. I will advise we exercise patience and caution. The police are also monitoring the case and we intend to get the report soon. This will be disclosed to the public.”

Meanwhile, the management of Learn Africa, the publishing firm where Ronke and Kayode worked, said on Tuesday that the duo left the firm in March.

A statement from the company on Tuesday, said both Ronke and Kayode left the employ of the organisation on the 8th and 10th of March 2016, respectively.

The statement read in part,

“Late Mrs. Ronke Shonde and Mr. Kayode Oluokun were former employees of Learn Africa Plc. However, as of the time of Mrs. Shonde’s death, they had ceased to be workers of Learn Africa Plc since the 8th and 10th of March 2016, respectively.

“During the period of their employment, the management is not in a position to confirm or deny the existence of a relationship between these former employees in any other capacity other than as colleagues.”

It appears the threat of an immediate shutdown of the economy may have been averted as the Federal Government and the Joe Ajaero-led faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) have agreed to set up a joint technical committee to review the new fuel pump price band of N135-N145 within the next two weeks, Vanguard reports.

The NLC and Trade Union Congress (TUC) had in a communiqué Saturday given the government a three-day ultimatum to reverse the sudden hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or face a nationwide lockdown.

However, after two rounds of meetings that began on Monday, both parties resolved to set up a committee that would work towards setting up a new pricing template for petrol as well as reviewing the current national minimum wage of N18, 000 which, according to labour, is not in tune with the prevailing economic situation in the country.

Meanwhile, the National Industrial Court (NIC) earlier today ruled against any strike action by organized labour, pending the determination of an ex parte application by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) asking the court to prevent labour from embarking on any ‘inimical’ nationwide strike.