Chibok Girls? Nigerian Military Finds Almost 300 Girls & Women in Sambisa Forest

The official Twitter account of the Nigerian military above has just put out a three-tweet series of announcement saying they have found 200 girls and 93 women in Sambisa Forest. They say they cannot officially confirm if the girls found are the same ones who were abducted from their school in Chibok community in April last year as they are yet to be profiled. My hope is that there are some of them among the group, but it is great that these women are now free! Great news! See the full tweets below...

15 Year Old Forced Into Prostitution To Pay Her Kidnappers Before She Was Released

Precious Nwaigwe, the 15-year-old schoolgirl, who disappeared on her way back to school about a year ago, has said she was trafficked to Libya and forced into prostitution to pay the Libyan pimp who bought her from the kidnappers. She lamented that after paying the money, she was again used as collateral for a 500 Libyan dinars (N50,000) loan by the kidnapper's liaison in Libya before she was finally able to return home.

She added that her abductors conducted pregnancy tests on her three different times, which were negative, and that she saw more than 1,000 Nigerian girls, who were also forced to work for the money paid by the pimps to the human traffickers.

Fake Name, Fake Everything - All The Facts About The Nanny Kidnapper

Three brothers, aged between 11 months and 6 years, were kidnapped by a new nanny, Mary Akinloye, just over a week ago. The children have now been found and the nanny arrested by the police. The woman has been speaking out and making confessions to the police, and so far, these are the facts that have emerged on the case.

Alarming Confession of Nanny Who Kidnapped Orekoya Children [Video]

Mary Akinloye, which has turned out not to be her real name, is the nanny who kidnapped the three Orekoya children from their Surulere home in Lagos State last week. After her arrest yesterday, the woman has confessed to also being behind the kidnap of the two boys, Raphael and Michael Esharegan, from the Magodo area of Lagos state, last year.

In a new video, she has opened up on her team, which she said consists of her husband, his brother, and the brother's wife, with Mary fronting as a househelp/nanny to kidnap children. The others run the business side of the kidnapping and had collected N2m for the Magodo kidnap, which occurred December last year. The children were later found in Shagamu, read here.

How Kidnapped Orekoya Kids Were Found Naked In A Bag And Taken To Hospital [Photos]

Three brothers, Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Demola Orekoya, 6; and Adedamola, 4, were kidnapped by a new nanny, Mary Akinloye, just over a week ago. The children have now been found and were reportedly left by the fleeing kidnappers in an uncompleted building in Egbeda/Shasha area of Lagos, Tuesday night, after some ransom was paid into the kidnapper's account.

According to SDK, "the kidnappers were paid N2.5m and they used ATM to withdraw 100k and transferred N1m each to Skype Bank and UBA". This probably led to the arrest, last night, of the nanny, Mary Akinloye who was paraded earlier today, you can see her pictures here.

Nanny Who Kidnapped Orekoya Boys Arrested, Family Claim They Paid Ransom

Mary Akinloye, the newly employed nanny who kidnapped the three Orekoya boys has been arrested, and that is her picture above. Speaking on Channels TV this morning, the Lagos state Police Commissioner, Kayode Aderanti, said she was arrested yesterday night but did not say where she was arrested. The woman claims to be 23 years old but the photos do not seem to support her claims.

However, in a turn of events, the story the family is telling is quite different from that proferred by the police yesterday, While the police said no ransom was paid and technology aided in finding the boys, the father of the children's mother says they paid a ransom and that was how they were released.

Police Narrate How Kidnapped Orekoya Kids Were Found, Say No Ransom Paid [Video]

New details emerging about the three missing children of the Orekoya family kidnapped by their nanny, has shown that they were found in Lagos State where they were taken hostage by the police yesterday. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police said the kidnappers were forced to abandon the kids in a house when it became obvious that the police was closing in on them. That means no ransom was paid.

A friend asked, "So what happens to the thousands? Millions? of naira they earlier raised for ransom?" adding that the news on radio said the father of the kids has declined making any comment for now. Watch the video below...

Orekoya Children Have Been Found, But I Have Questions For the Family & Police

By Ireti Adebayo Oladapo

Glad the Orekoya boys are safe, healthy and alright. The whole of Nigeria stood up for them and hoax or truth, the three babies are healthy and back with their parents.

I absolve the Orekoya Mum of any fault deemed from her leaving the kids with a stranger a day after recruiting as I believe there were pressing issues she needed to attend to at work (Man Mus Wak) plus she would have given the maid specific instructions on individual care of the kids.

Chibok Girls Anniversary: Female Boko Haram Abductee Trained to Fight Speaks Out

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the April 14, 2014 mass abduction by Boko Haram of almost 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok. Amnesty International has now released a report called, 'Our job is to shoot, slaughter and kill': Boko Haram's reign of terror in north east Nigeria, which is based on nearly 200 witness accounts, including 28 with abducted women and girls who escaped captivity.

The report is accompanied by a video of Boko Haram's female fighters mostly made of abducted girls and women. In the video, 19-year-old Aisha speaks of how during the months she was held captive, she was raped repeatedly, sometimes by groups of several fighters. She witnessed her sister being killed as well as up to 50 people who refused to convert or get trained. Aisha accepted to be trained to fight and was sent on an operation to attack her village. She escaped after 4 months. See the video below...

Mom of Orekoya Children Weeps As Deadline For Ransom Passes & Kids Still Missing [Video]

Today makes it 5 days since 11 months old Aderomola Orekoya and his older brothers, Adedamola Orekoya, 4, and Demola Orekoya, 6, were kidnapped by a newly employed nanny from their home. Some days after the kidnapping, the kidnappers contacted the family to ask for a N13million ransom within 2 days or they will loose their kids forever.

The heartbroken and tearful mother says they can not afford that amount in this emotional video that just emerged today. She also mentions that though she has provided account details for a donation drive online, the response has not been encouraging. Watch video and see her call for help on Facebook below....

Update On Orekoya Boys: Kidnappers Have Contacted the Family - Please Keep Praying

Yesterday, the news went viral, read here, that 3 of the Orekoya boys - Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Adedamola Orekoya, 4 years and Demola Orekoya, 6 years - were kidnapped by their newly employed househelp. There was an update yesterday that the children had been returned to a family member, but that was soon shown to be a mere hearsay and not true. However, a trusted source has now confirmed that the kidnappers are in touch with the family and they are negotiating the boys' release. More information below...

Househelp Disappears With Employer's 3 Sons in Surulere

If you have seen the children in the photo above or you have any information that can help find them, kindly call these numbers - 08052062117, 09098097935 or 08060184514. According to a message which has been circulating on BBM, a househelp was employed by their parents yesterday, and today, she took the kids out and never returned.

Please help spread this picture and hopefully the 3 missing boys - Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Adedamola Orekoya, 4 years and Demola Orekoya, 6 years will soon be found. The family says they have cried and cried so much that they don't know what to do anymore. See the message from a family member about the three missing children below...

CCTV Shows Shocking Moments Man Runs Away With Toddler In Kidnapping Attempt

Authorities are searching for a man caught on surveillance video running down a sidewalk with a toddler in his arms, with the boy's two young siblings screaming and chasing behind him, in what authorities in the tiny town of Sprague, Washington, say was a failed kidnapping.

The dramatic scene ended after a pair of local teenagers also chased after the man and he set the boy down and ran off on Sunday, authorities said. The 22-month-old boy - called Owen - was unhurt, said Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers.

Kidnapped Baby Found 17 Years Later When Look-alike Sister Joins The Same School

A baby stolen from her sleeping mother's arms shortly after birth has been found by the family through an astonishing coincidence 17 years later, South African police say.

A 50-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with kidnapping after pupils noticed a remarkable likeness between the 17-year-old and her younger biological sister, who started attending the same school this year.

N60m Ransom Wanted For American Missionary Kidnapped In Kogi

The abductors of US citizen, Phyllis Sortor have reportedly demanded a sum of N60 million as ransom for her release. Reverend Sortor, who works with the Free Methodist Church, was abducted from Hope Academy in Emiworo Village, Kogi State on Monday, February 23.

The police are frantically searching for clues and are unwilling to negotiate with the kidnappers. They say the American missionary worker, who was abducted from her workplace in Kogi, runs an elementary school in the state. The abducted missionary worker is from Seattle in the United States.

Female US Missionary Kidnapped In Kogi State [Photo]

A US Missionary worker, Reverend Phyllis Sortor was kidnapped in Kogi yesterday February 23rd. Rev. Sortor was kidnapped by unknown gunmen from her mission location in the state.

According to the spokesperson of the Kogi state Police command, Mr Sola Colins, the kidnapped woman who's an American citizen was kidnapped inside her school premises at about 10am yesterday February 23rd.

Kidnapped & Sold At 4 - Chinese Boy Is Reunited With Father After 24 Years

A Chinese man has been reunited with his father 24 years after he was abducted as a toddler from a vegetable market. In 1991, 4-year-old Sun Bin was taken by child traffickers from his hometown in Sichuan province and sold to a family thousands of miles away, in Jiangsu province on the country's eastern coast, Chinese state media reported.

On Tuesday, Sun was finally reacquainted with his 60-year-old father, Sun Youhong, and a younger sister he had never met. The reunion took place at a police station in Chengdu. When a police officer introduced Sun Bin to his father, the 28-year-old dropped to his knees and wept in his father's embrace. The moment was captured in a moving series of photographs.

Infant Found Dead in Dumpster Was Missing Long Beach Baby

So sad! A 3-week-old girl who was found in a strip mall Dumpster in San Diego Sunday afternoon, turns out to ba a baby abducted after her mother, father and uncle were shot, authorities in California have said.

Eliza Delacruz was taken from a home in Long Beach on Saturday. Authorities told CNN that the attacker possibly knew the family and that immediately after the shooting, a man fled the home with the child.

Terrorists Raise Flag In Australian Cafe, Take 13 Customers Hostage

An unknown number of terrorists have taken up to 13 hostages in an armed siege of a cafe in Sydney, Australia. Some of the kidnapped victims have been forced to raise up a black flag with Arabic writing in a store window. Some have identified the flag as a Shahada or Black Standard flag, sometimes used in Jihad.

According to MailOnline, witnesses reported seeing staff and customers sobbing as they were forced to stand with their hands pressed against the windows of the Lindt cafe. At least two gunmen are said to be involved in the siege. One gunman is believed to have a shotgun and possibly an explosive device.

Two Boys Kidnapped By The Househelp In Lagos Found In Shagamu

Remember the two boys - Rafael and Michael - who were abducted from their home in Isheri Magodo Estate, Lagos on Sunday December 6th?

Actress Kate Henshaw was the first to put out the alert about how the family househelp took the little boys away while their parents were out. It turned out the househelp was hired online just a few days before. [read here].