Nelson Ugwuagbo

The Ogun State Police Command has said it is investigating the sudden disappearance of a 54-year-old woman, Eno Okon, who allegedly went missing on August 11 while attending the annual programme of a Pentecostal church along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Leading Reporters learnt that the woman, who is a resident of Adesan in the Mowe area of the state, offered to follow her neighbour who invited her to the programme.

After some hours into the programme, Eno was said to have told her neighbour she was sitting with that she wanted to visit the restroom.

The neighbour who noticed she did not return after a long time decided to look around for her but could not find her.

While speaking with her correspondent on Wednesday, her husband, Okon, said efforts to locate her whereabouts since then had been futile.

He said, “My wife and I used to live in Lagos before we relocated to Mowe.  I was not at home when her neighbour invited her that night. She was also not the only one who followed her, the woman invited other neighbours who followed her to the programme.  They all sat together so that they wouldn’t miss each other. When it was around 2am, she told them that she wanted to urinate. When she did not return, they started to look for her. They later thought she had gone home.  It was when they got home that they discovered that she was not at home. When I got to know, I went to meet the woman and we went back to the church to look for her. We also went to Sagamu when we thought she mistakenly followed another bus from there.”

 Okon said the incident was reported at three different police stations.

He added that the church’s leadership was also informed about the development.

He said, “When we could not find her, we went to the police stations in Mowe, Sagamu and the one located on the church premises. We also reported to a pastor in the church. After reporting to them, they pasted her picture at the entrance of the gate. They also announced it during the Thanksgiving Service held on Sunday which is the third day of the programme.”

When contacted, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, said she was not aware of the report.

“I am not aware. You can send a text for me to do a follow-up.”

She did not respond to the text message sent to her as of the time of filing this report.

The Nasarawa State University lecturer, Dr Comfort Adokwe, who was abducted on Sunday, has been released.

Leading Reporters learnt that Adokwe, a lecturer in the Faculty of Administration at the university and a Deputy Director, Gender Studies, of the school, was abducted on Sunday night by gunmen from her residence in Angwan Jaba in Keffi.

Speaking with newsman on phone, Timothy Adokwe, brother to Comfort, confirmed the release.

“Yes, she was released around 8:30,” he said.

He said the kidnappers initially demanded a N100million ransom.

He confirmed that the family paid an undisclosed amount to secure her freedom.

Timothy, however, lauded the military and the Department of State Services, DSS, for their involvement in the release of his sister, saying that though they could not go closer to avoid any harm to Comfort, they monitored via satellite.

“Actually, the police were not there, but the military and the DSS were involved, but at the outskirts because they tried to monitor from their satellite and know the location, but you know, they can’t just enter directly,” he said.

Adokwe said his sister has been taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical checkup, adding that she is okay and has reunited with her husband and daughter.

He urged the government to ensure development reaches some areas dominated by kidnappers.

He said the VC of the university who was kidnapped in the past was rescued from the same location.

It was learnt that the hoodlums invaded the hostels of the students located at Abapawa, an area off the university campus.

Some hoodlums have raped no fewer than four female students of the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ogun State.

It was learnt that the hoodlums invaded the hostels of the students located at Abapawa, an area off the university campus.

The hoodlums were said to have invaded the hostel in the early hours of Tuesday and forcefully had unlawful carnal knowledge of the female students.

The Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele, made this known when she visited the four victims where they were receiving treatment at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.

Salako-Oyedele who visited the University, alongside the State Commissioner of Police, Alamutu Abiodun and the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Abayomi Arigbabu, described the incident as “distressing and brutal”.

The Deputy Governor made this known in a post on her verified Facebook page.

She added that a crucial meeting with the Management and Students of TASUED in company of Alamutu and Arigbabu, to discuss concrete steps to bolster security measures and foster a safe environment on campus and the adjacent host community.

She said, “After receiving the distressing news about armed robbery at some TASUED hostels and the brutal rape of four female students, His Excellency, Prince Dapo Abiodun, directed me to immediately visit the victims and the campus on a fact finding mission and to pledge the Government’s support in ensuring this doesn’t happen again.

“I have visited the girls who are now being cared for and given the necessary support to heal from their trauma at the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) at OSUTH.

“CP Alamutu had promised to arrest the perpetrators of the crime,” she added.

The suspect was arrested following complaints by the girl’s mother who discovered blood stains in her privates

 
A 46-year-old man has allegedly defiled a four-year-old girl in Ume-Obi, Agbor in the Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.

The suspect identified as Innocent Ezeukwu, was arrested by the Delta State Police Command and paraded at the headquarters in Asaba on Tuesday.

Briefing journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe Bright, said the suspect was arrested following complaints by the girl’s mother who discovered blood stains in her privates on October 5.

“On October 5, one Mrs Joy Chukwudi reported that while she was bathing her four-year-old daughter, she discovered a blood stain in the private part of her daughter. Upon questioning, her daughter kept stating that her uncle at the school used scissors to cut her on the vagina,” Bright said.

“Upon receipt of this complaint, the Area Commander Agbor detailed a team of investigators to proceed to the scene of the alleged crime. The suspect Innocent Ezeukwu who doubles as the owner of the school and also the only male teacher in the school was arrested and taken into custody.

“Preliminary investigation led to the issuance of a medical report, and the initiation of an identification exercise where the suspect, Innocent Ezeukwu when placed amongst random men, was identified by the victim as the person who allegedly defiled her.

“The medical report affirmed that there was “no hymen visualized” in the victim’s private part. Though the Area Command Agbor had concluded their investigation and charged the case to court, there was a counter directive from the commissioner of police who instructed that the case be withdrawn from the court and immediately transferred to the State Criminal and Investigation Department (SCID) for further meticulously executed investigation.”

A five-hundred-level student of the Department of Veterinary Medicine from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Kaduna State, North West Nigeria has been arrested by the men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), Bauchi State Command, over the alleged killing of a 17-year-old Senior Secondary School Two (SSS II) student in Misau Local Government Area of the State.

The State’s Commandant of the Corps, Ilelaboye Oyejide, said this while parading the suspect at the Command’s office.

According to the commandant, on 20 October 2023, the lifeless body of a 17-year-old identified as Umar Ismail was found on the bypass road in Misau.

After an investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding his death, the NSCDC took Abdullahi Ibrahim into custody as a prime suspect.

Ilelaboye says, the suspect has already confessed to having anal knowledge of the victim and later killed him.

In an interview, the suspect, Abdulahi Ibrahim, told journalists that he committed the act in self-defense.

The Bauchi State NSCDC Commandant Ilelaboye Oyejide, assured residents to remain calm as the suspect would be taken to court for prosecution.