Read how the Orekoya three kidnapped children were found

 

The residence of the Orekoyas at Lawanson, Surulere have been agog with activities following the safe return of the three children who were kidnapped by their nanny last week.

The children, Demola, 6; Adedamola, 4, and Aderomola, 11 months, were reportedly found in an uncompleted building in Shasha area of Akowonjo, Lagos, Tuesday night, after an undisclosed ransom was paid into an account.

According to their maternal grandfather, Senior Apostle Abraham Adekunle, the children were found naked inside a bag. No arrest has, however, been made.

The abductors, as gathered, had sent an account number of an undisclosed bank to the Orekoyas. The children, who had been ravaged by mosquitoes, were immediately taken to police hospital, Ikeja.

The grandfather of the children, Senior Apostle Adekunle, described the eight days of his grandchildren’s disappearance as one of the worst challenges he had faced in his 67 years of existence.  “these eight days have been days of unrest for every member of my family’’ he said.

Cynthia Osokogu: I never met her, I only admitted guilt after being torturd by the police - 2nd defedant, Olisaeloka Chidera-Ezike

 

The case of Miss Cynthia Osokogu, who was invited from Abuja to Lagos by her boyfriend but was later killed in her hotel room by her boyfriend and others is still on going.

A defense witness   in the ongoing murder trial of Cynthia Osokogu, Olisaeloka Chidera-Ezike, yesterday, told a Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere that he never met Cynthia Osokogu in person.

The witness said he only heard about her from his uncle, Okwumo Nwabufo, who is the first defendant.

Chidera-Ezike, who is the second defendant in the murder case, said this while being cross examined by the Attorney General of Lagos State, Mr. Ade Ipaye, the prosecutor in the matter.

The defendant told Justice Olabisi Akinlade that he never saw the deceased with the first defendant and that he did not purchase the flight ticket for Cynthia to come to Lagos, as stated in the statement he wrote before the police.

He said the statement was made under duress.

Lebanese woman, others use EFCC vests for robbery

 

32-year-old Lebanese, Amira Abdallahi, along with five other suspects, have been arrested by the police for alleged robberies and frauds totalling N20m in different parts of Lagos and Abuja. 

The suspects ─ Princewill Eze, 55; Daniel Okpara, 30; Paul Irior, 37; Bassey Ekpenyong, 39; Royal Nwabuike, 32; and the Lebanese ─ disguised as officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and wore the commission’s branded vests.

It was gathered that they allegedly defrauded some Bureau de Change outlets in Lagos with the vests.

Eze, who is said to be the gang leader, was arrested by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the state command on February 27 in the VGC, Ajah area of Lagos.

Eze’s confessions, it was gathered, led to the arrest of the Lebanese woman and other gang members.

Items said to have been recovered from the gang included six Toyota vehicles, one single-barrelled pistol with four cartridges and a Bryco pistol with six rounds of 5.56mm ammunition.

Woman delivers baby inside BRT bus

 

Passengers on a Bus Rapid Transit going to the CMS area of Lagos on Wednesday were forced to become emergency midwives and labour attendants when a pregnant woman was delivered of a bouncing baby boy inside the bus.

An eye witness stated that the woman, identified simply as Afolaranmi, was going to a private hospital in CMS for a medical checkup, when she started her labour.

It was gathered that some medical workers in the bus organised other passengers to help in delivering the baby.