BREAKING 🚨: Abductors who seized 19 graduates travelling from Ibadan, Oyo State, for their National Youth Service Corps orientation camps have demanded N950 million for their release

Video shows a young girl being ass@ulted by some guys who accused her of collecting their transportation money and failing to show up as agreed. 😳

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Corps members, driver, and other passengers kidn@pped while travelling today

An unspecified number of travellers have been kidn@pped on Nigeria's independence day.

According to reports, at least 2 commercial buses were affected. The passengers and drivers were reportedly taken away by armed kidnappers.

According to an eyewitness report, the incident happened along the Onitsha–Owerri Road in Imo State.

Other vehicles travelling along the road were also reportedly affected, with passengers in some of the vehicles allegedly taken away by the kidnappers.

The exact number of people kidn@pped is not yet clear.

A video shared online shows loved ones stating that some of those kidnapped are corps members who left with Uko Akwa Ibom Motors from Ibadan to travel to the places they were posted to in various states in the south-east and south-south zones.

The passengers boarded a bus at Samonda, Ibadan, with the aim of travelling to orientation camps in Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Imo, and Abia

Some distraught family members visited the park where their loved ones took off from and recorded a video informing family members of other travellers who left from the same park of what has happened.

"They carried everybody, including the driver," a passenger who boarded a bus that managed to escape the incident said as he filmed the commercial bus abandoned by the roadside after the passengers and drivers had been abducted.

One woman narrated how her child left the park in Ibadan to travel to orientation camp in the east. She said that they received a message from her child in their family's WhatsApp group earlier this morning, October 1st.

According to the mother, her child typed "kidn@pper" and that was the last they heard. She said they have been calling her child's number but it has remained unreachable.

Christian TikToker Audrey Cyril takes down her engagement videos following her fiancé’s alleged infidelity saga

Delta State residents who came out for the Independence Day 5KM race have shared videos showing how they discovered “Soft Nigeria” T-shirts bearing the image of President Tinubu. They instead took to the streets chanting and campaigning for NDC presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi.

Youths were seen ripping of campaign polo and chanting “Obi obi” at PTI junction, they were supposed to come out to do 5KM Independence Day Run. After gathering, the organizers started sharing "Soft Nigeria" Polo with Tinubu face inscribed in it.

They later set all the polo on fire.
#warri #independenceday #5km

BREAKING: Jordan Ezenwo Nyesom-Wike, son of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has denied receiving $2.1m from a businessman for an Abuja land deal, telling an FCT High Court that his signature on a document linking him to the transaction was forged.

Man arrested for r@ping 5-year-old girl in Bayelsa

A 29-year old man identified as Ebikeme Seiye from Akede community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been arrested for r@ping a 5-year-old named, Oyeintari Idonwanbofa.

The suspect was apprehended by the Bayelsa State Community Safety Corp Amassoma Cluster on Wednesday, 30th of September 2026 after the victim’s elder cousin brother, Mr Tobokeakpo Selekeme reported the matter.

During interrogation, the suspect confessed that he r@ped the minor, claiming he was under the influence of hard drugs (Kolos).

The Bayelsa State Community Safety Corp Amassoma Cluster later handed the suspect over to the Amassoma Police Divisional Headquarters for further investigation and possible prosecution.

The victim is currently receiving medical treatment in a hospital.

Lawyer Pleads With Court to Temper Justice With Mercy for 4th Defendant

“My Lord, the 4th defendant is a young woman who løst her mother at a very early age. She has had to toil night and day in an effort to become a good woman. I am pleading passionately with this honourable court to temper justice with mercy. We are not saying that she has done well, but we are asking the court to consider her circumstances.”

— Lawyer to the 4th Defendant

The court has sentenced the 4th defendant, Gift Raphael, to seven years’ imprisonment on Count One.

The judge also sentenced her to de@th on Counts Two, Four, Six and Eight, stating that the sentence would be carried out either by hanging or through the administration of a lethal injection.

The judge further stated that, if carried out by hanging, she would be hanged by the neck until de@th, before concluding: “May the Lord have mercy on you.”

BREAKING NEWS:

Special Court Sentences Four To De@th For Kidn@pping, Cultism And Other Offences In Edo State

The Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City has sentenced four persons to death by hanging for kidnapping, membership of a secret cult and other violent crimes.

The Special Criminal Court, presided over by Justice Terry Momodu Aigbona, handed down the sentence after a judgment that lasted more than three hours.

Justice Aigbona convicted the alleged gang leader, Isaac Marvellous, 32, on all 11 counts and sentenced him accordingly. The court also ordered that the convicts be executed by hanging or lethal injection.

The other condemned persons are Wisdom Michael, 36; Rufus Michael, 30; and Gift Raphael, 27.

The four were convicted on an 11-count charge bordering on kidnapping, cultism and other violent crimes.

The court also handed down various jail terms to other suspects and ordered that firearms recovered from the convicts as exhibits be handed over to the Federal Government.

The kidn@pping video 👇