CCTV Captures Customer Abducting One Year Old Girl in Lagos, Nigeria

A Closed Circuit Television Camera at a supermarket in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State has shown that a woman, identified only as Mama Oyin, who disguised as a customer, strapped a  one-year-old girl, Fehintola Lawal, to her back before allegedly escaping with the girl.

The footage, obtained by the police and Fehintola’s family members on Thursday, captured how Mama Oyin walked around the supermarket, as she searched for items, a few minutes before the alleged abduction.

PUNCH Metro had reported on Thursday that Mama Oyin met Fehintola’s mother and grandmother, who were traders in the Abule Egba area, on Saturday, and said she needed some items, which were said to be unavailable.

It was reported that the suspect had returned to the traders on Sunday, telling them that she newly moved to the area.

I Know Who Abducted My 4 Year Old Brother – Sister, 8

Oyindamola Ojelabi, the eight-year-old sister of a Nursery 1 pupil, Michael Ojelabi, who was abducted on Wednesday, says she knows the captor of her four-year-old brother. 

Oyindamola and Michael were returning from their school on Great Challenge Road, Unity Estate, in the Iba area of Lagos around 3.30pm when a woman abducted him.

It was learnt that the woman, who is still at large, escaped with Michael on a motorcycle.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the school, Mafina Primary School, is a few minutes walk away from the Ojelabis’ residence.

Oyindamola, who is in Primary 2, told PUNCH Metro that she could identify the woman if she saw her again, just as the police said they had launched a manhunt for the suspect.

Outrage As Boko Haram Vows To Sell Abducted Girls (Video Within)

The kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls is an "outrage" according to the United States, which has promised help to try to find them.

The pledge came after the children's Islamist kidnapper reportedly vowed to sell them.

In a video obtained by the AFP news agency, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau described the students as "slaves," adding: "I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah."

At least 276 youngsters were seized from their school in the village of Chibok, in Borno state, north Nigeria, by militants on April 14.

Mother Clings to Moving Vehicle to Rescue Abducted 9 month old Daughter in Calabar

A brave mother, Mrs Priscilla Ekpenyong, on Friday damned the consequences by clinging to a moving vehicle in order to rescue her nine-month-old child, Emmanuella, from the hands of fleeing abductors.

Punch reports that the abductors had  pushed the 23-year-old woman out of the moving vehicle, but she held on to her daughter and was dragged on the tarred road for some distance before the kidnapping was aborted by security operatives. The incident happened by the Eburutu Army Barracks along the busy Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

5 passengers abducted by Gunmen In ambush

A new dimension has been introduced into the flourishing business of kidnapping in Nigeria, as five out of seven Lagos-bound passengers of an inter-state taxi were abducted by gunmen on the Lagos-Benin Road.

The manner of the abduction in Edo State, was unprecedented

The passengers who were travelling from Warri, Delta state to Lagos, in a Greener Line space wagon Siena bus, were waylaid along the Benin-Lagos road, by Ogbemudia farms by the kidnappers who barricaded the road with a truck.