by Admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI One of the parents of four freed pupils of the Lagos Junior Model College, Igbonla, Epe, Lagos State, has said the victims were brought back by the kidnappers to a bush behind the school, not far from where they were abducted six days ago. The parent, who pleaded that his identity be protected, told PUNCH Metro on Wednesday that the kidnappers brought the schoolboys, the teacher and the Vice-Principal to the area that they had passed through to invade the school on Thursday, October 6. Our correspondents learnt that some people in the school, who sighted the victims around 10.30pm, thereafter put calls across to their relations to announce their release. The kidnappers had last Friday, at about 8am, stormed the school premises while the junior school was rounding off the morning prayers and shot sporadically into the air. During the invasion, four pupils – Okonkwo Emmanuel, Isaac Adebisi, Abu and Jeremiah – were abducted while the English Language/Civic Education teacher, Lukman Oyerinde, and the Vice Principal, A.O. Oyesola, were also taken away by force. Our correspondents had reported the various stages of negotiation of ransoms between the attackers and the victims’ families, which was finally put at N1m ransom for each victim. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victims were hidden in a creek in the Epe area, which was said to be about four hours’ sailing from the school. It was gathered that the schoolboys, the teacher, and the VP were dropped off on Tuesday evening. The parent, who lived in the Ikorodu area, told our correspondent that he had relocated to a friend’s place in...
by Admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said that only one of the 21 released Chibok girls has a baby. On Thursday evening, Osinbajo led some top government officials to visit the girls at the DSS Medical Centre, Airport Road, Abuja, where they are currently receiving medical attention. Osinbajo, who was accompanied by the Director-General of the DSS, Mr. Lawal Daura; Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed; Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan; Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Zaynab Ahmed; and the Special Adviser to the President on Social Protection Plan, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, later briefed State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Vice-President disclosed to journalists that the Federal Government did not swap any Boko Haram detainee for the release of the girls. “There was no exchange of any kind. There was no swap of any kind. Even when we started negotiations, we said we would consider all options available to us. Absolutely, there was no exchange of any kind,” he said. When asked if the government would consider a swap for the release of the remaining girls still in captivity, Osinbajo said the government would look at all options and weigh them carefully. “In doing so, however, the security and safety of the country would be considered,” he said. He said the government would rather use the same template that was used for the release of the 21 girls to secure the release of the remaining ones. Osinbajo said, “We must be sensitive to the fact that the government wants these girls back and alive. Again, we must balance this against the security and safety...
by Admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Getting a partner these days has become easier and faster. You don’t need to attend your friend’s birthday bash with the intention of seeing the prettiest girl or the most handsome man in the group. One of the ways people get hooked up is through social media. One could be scrolling down that Facebook page or Instagram admiring pretty and hunk faces and get a hook. This is exactly what one man identified as Dee did. The man found a pretty girl on Instagram, hit on her and within no days they were out on a date. They fell in love and six months down the line they became husband and wife. The man was respectful enough not to hurry the new acquisition into laying her. He waited, just like the Holy books advise, for the right time to get down on her. But things turned ugly when the two got to bed to have intimacy. The lady hit the bathroom, had a shower and on returning, our good brother realised she wasn’t the same girl he had has always dated....
by Admin | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the BBC. It is thought that they are now with the security services in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri. It is not yet clear how the girls were rescued. The Islamist militant group kidnapped more than 250 students from a school in Chibok in April 2014 – an act that provoked international condemnation. Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has told the BBC. It is thought that they are now with the security services in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri. It is not yet clear how the girls were rescued. The Islamist militant group kidnapped more than 250 students from a school in Chibok in April 2014 – an act that provoked international...
by Admin | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Emerging reports suggests that the vice principal, a teacher and 2 students of Government Model College at the Igbonla area of Epe have been released from the den of those who kidnapped them. Lagos model college Igbonla An 11-man gang had last week stormed Government Model College at the Igbonla area of Epe and abducted two students, their vice principal and a teacher. The release came following the expiration of the 24 hours ultimatum given by the kidnappers of two students, the vice principal and a teacher from the secondary school located in Epe, Lagos. According to This Day, the victims were released at about 10.30pm in yet to be ascertained circumstances. Although it was yet to be confirmed, it was gathered that the family of one abducted student who was sick, had paid N1 million ransom as requested by the kidnappers. It was also gathered that the other families did not pay a dime. The police has confirmed the release, but are yet to make a formal statement. Meanwhile, to beef up security at the community level, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state on Tuesday said no fewer than 5,000 men and women would be recruited to Neighbourhood Watch – the state grass roots security outfit. Ambode, who spoke at the ‘2016 3rd Quarter Town Hall Meeting’ of his administration at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, added that the new recruits would earn at least N25,000 monthly, apart from other allowances. He said the Neighbourhood Safety Agency Bill which he signed into law on August 15, 2016, was part of efforts to institutionalise and deepen community...
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