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Police rescue two-year-old girl kidnapped in MFM
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have rescued a two-year-old girl, Esther Ojo, who was kidnapped during a Sunday service at a Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries church at Pen Cinema, in the Agege area of the state.
PUNCH Metro had reported that Esther went missing when she went to use the toilet during the church service.
Efforts by her mother, Bola, relatives and friends to locate her proved abortive.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, in a statement on Monday, said the suspected kidnappers, Nwaigbo Magnus and Sixtus Egwim, had demanded a ransom from the victim’s parents and the church.
He added that operatives of the command, while acting on intelligence traced them to their hideouts, where they were rounded up.
The police spokesman stated that Esther had been reunited with her parents.
Elkana said, “On Monday, May 6, 2019, around 8am, the Divisional Police Officer, Igando Police Station, CSP Taiwo Kasumu, while acting on credible intelligence, led plain-clothes surveillance men on the trail of suspected kidnappers, who abducted two-year-old Esther Ojo from the MFM regional headquarters, Agege, on Sunday, March 24, 2019, around 12.30pm.
“The kidnappers, Nwaigbo Magnus and Sixtus Egwim, had demanded ransom of an undisclosed amount from the parents of the child and the church. The kidnappers continued to change the location for the collection of the ransom within Igando area for over four hours until they were arrested by the police.
“The child was recovered from a den and reunited with the parents, Mr and Mrs Ojo, as they cried for joy.”
He said the state Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Mu’azu, had directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, to charge the suspects to court.
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Abiola Cannot Be Recognised As Former President; He Was Never Sworn-in – Gen Ishola Williams
By Eric Elezuo
One of the prime actors of the June 12, 1993 incidents, General Ishola Williams, has said that much as Chief MKO Abiola wrong was created having won the election, and denied victory, he cannot be recognized as a former President of Nigeria.
Gen Williams made his revelation while speaking as a guest on Channels television socio-political programme, Inside Source.
He maintained that only those who were sworn in that recognised as former presidents, and Abiola was never sworn in.
“Abiola cannot be recognised as former president because he was never sworn in.
The General, who said that he resigned from the army as a result of the wholesome reception given to General Sani Abacha, when he overthrew Chief Ernest Shonekan-led Interim National Government, contrary to expectation, also picked flaws in the narratives given by former Military President Ibrahim Babangida, in his recently launched book, A Journey In Service.
Williams rose in the army to become the Commandant of Army Signals, Commander of Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) and Chief of Defence Training and Planning, from where he resigned.
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Breaking: Supreme Court Recognises Martin Amaewhule As Rivers Assembly Speaker, Orders CBN to Stop Releasing Funds to State
By Eric Elezuo
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has in its ruling on Friday recognised Hon Martins Amaewhule as the authentic speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, mandating him to urgently resume sitting with elected members of the assembly.
The apex court also ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop releasing to the Rivers State government until a proper assembly is constituted.
Details soon…
Tension escalated at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday as impeached Speaker Mudashiru Obasa made a dramatic return to reclaim his position.
Accompanied by heavily armed men, Obasa stormed the Assembly complex in a bold move that has thrown the State’s legislature into turmoil.
In a stunning turn of events, security details assigned to the substantive Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mojisola Meranda, were abruptly withdrawn on Thursday morning, clearing the path for Obasa’s controversial comeback.
Sources revealed that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) ordered the withdrawal of all security operatives attached to Meranda, leaving her exposed in the midst of an intensifying power struggle.
The Speaker’s Special Adviser on Information, Mr. Victor Ganzallo, expressed concern over the security vacuum created by the withdrawal of personnel.
“In the early hours of Thursday, we woke up to the startling news that all security details assigned to Madam Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, had been withdrawn.
This includes the police and DSS officers, leaving her exposed to threats amid the ongoing speakership crisis,” Ganzallo stated.
He further called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as the State’s Chief Security Officer, to intervene urgently to prevent a complete breakdown of law and order within the Assembly.
“The withdrawal of security personnel has left the Assembly naked and vulnerable at a critical time. Urgent action is needed to restore order,” he pleaded.
With the speakership battle taking a dramatic new turn, political watchers are keenly observing how the crisis will unfold in the coming days.
