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  • Gunmen kidnap bride-to-be in Jigawa

    Gunmen kidnap bride-to-be in Jigawa

    Barely less than a month to her wedding ceremony, a 20-year-old bride-to-be, Saratu Sabo Wada, was kidnapped.

    Saratu, a daughter of Sabo Wada Ringim, former clerk Jigawa state house of assembly and currently council secretary of Ringim local government lives in Gida-Dubu Quarters in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

    According to a family source who spoke with newsmen, the kidnapped victim, Saratu, was abducted on Monday morning at the front of her father’s residence at Gida Dubu quarters in Dutse metropolitan.

    The family source said: “Saratu went out after receiving a phone call and since then she was nowhere to be found and all her phones are switched off”.

    The source further disclosed that the victim was abducted a month to her wedding and nobody has so far contacted the family for any ransom. Meanwhile, the Jigawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Abdu Jinjiri confirmed the incident, said the police are investigating the case.

  • Shocking! Bride flees on wedding day after discovering groom’s scandalous secret

    Shocking! Bride flees on wedding day after discovering groom’s scandalous secret

    An overwhelmed bride has ran off on her wedding day after a disturbing secret about her man was made known to her.

    The unidentified Nigerian lady took to her heels on her wedding day after realizing that her husband-to-be slept with her friend.

    The sad occurrence reportedly happened over the weekend around Area2 vicinity, Garki, in the federal capital territory, Abuja.

    The viral video captured the moment that the bride fled her wedding ceremony after finding out that her husband-to-be cheated on her days to their wedding. According to a social media source, the yet to be identified lady while in the car heading to their wedding venue, was told that her groom slept with a close friend few days to their wedding. The bride immediately alighted from the car and took to her heels but the bridesmaids quickly followed to prevent her from doing something harmful to herself. In the video, the inconsolable bride was seen and heard crying uncontrollably while her friends tried to console her.

    https://www.facebook.com/100006106741919/videos/2714229615457237/

  • Avoid bribe, it brings bad luck, CP warns policemen

    The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Abdulrahman, has warned policemen to avoid bribe or extortion stressing that such money was poisonous and capable of bringing bad luck.

    Abdulrahman gave the warning in Nsukka while addressing men and officers of Police Area Command, Nsukka, during his familiarisation tour.

    He said his administration would not spare any police officer found guilty of taking bribe as well as the collection of money for bail.

    The era of extortion, collection of money before doing your job or taking money before granting somebody bail is over, I will not condone such unprofessional practices.

    Some people erroneously believe that when a policeman collects illegal money from the public, he will give it to the Division Police Officer (DPO).

    According to them, DPO will give it to the Area Commander and area commander will give it to Commissioner of Police, that is a complete lie,’’ he said.

    He said nobody should bring ‘brown envelop’ that is proceed of bribe to him because such is poisonous and brings bad luck.

    “Bail is free, if any policeman collects money to bail anybody, the public should report that officer to me and he or she will be sanctioned.

    “If somebody appreciates you willingly because of the excellent way you are doing your work, I am not against it.’’

    Abdulrahman commended the sister security agencies and Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) who assisted him to bring to a halt the high rate of kidnapping and armed robbery in the state when he assumed office.

    “I am happy Enugu State has returned to its former glory as the most peaceful state in the country.’’

    The police commissioner urged residents of the state to embrace community policing, adding that that had become the main practice in every part of the world.

    “Community policing is the main thing in every part of the world as it helps to build confidence and trust between police and the community,’’ he said.

    The police boss promised to send more patrol vehicles to Nsukka Area Command to improve operation and logistics in the area.

    The Chairman of (PCRC) in Enugu State, Mr Dom Ezema, commended the police commissioner for the visit in spite of his tight schedule.

    Ezema, however, urged him to deploy more policemen to Nsukka senatorial zone to enable the command give maximum protection to people in the zone.

    “Nsukka zone is more populated than any other zone in the state and as such, needs more policemen to protect lives and property in the area.

    “PCRC will continue to support police in the Enugu State in ensuring good community relation with residents,’’ he said.

    Earlier, Mr Omaru Ozigi, the Commander of Nsukka Police Area Command said that the command had keyed into the commissioner’s philosophy of no bribe no extorting.

    He said the area command had ensured that any erring police officer is brought to book.

    Ozigi told the commissioner that the ban of motorcycles in Nsukka town, from 8 p.m to 6 am, was to stop criminals who used motorcycles to commit crimes at night in the town.

    “The ban is yielding good result since the enforcement started,’’ he said.

    He also commended the commissioner for the visit and thanked him for promising to send more operational vehicles to Nsukka Police Area Command.

    NAN reports that many stakeholders in Nsukka Local Government Area were present during the visit.

  • Bride, 12 others killed in truck accident

    Thirteen people including a bride-to-be and two children were killed when the truck they were riding on after attending a traditional pre-wedding ceremony rolled over on a mountain road, police said Sunday.

    The dump truck was carrying 53 passengers in eastern Camarines Sur province on Saturday and was going down the highway when it lost control, injuring dozens of other people, said San Fernando town police investigator Victor Quinao.

    The group had come from participating in a Filipino tradition where a man and his family visit the home of a woman to formally ask for her hand in marriage, Quinao said, adding the bride was among those killed.

    The fatalities included children aged four and five, Quinao added.

    Police said they were investigating the possible liability of the driver.

    Road accidents are common in the Philippines, where inadequately maintained buses and poorly trained drivers form the backbone of land transport options.

    A lawmaker has criticised the nation’s regulators over usafe vehicles, saying they allowed “rolling coffins” to ply the roads.

  • Tragic: Bride dies day to wedding in Bauchi

    Tragic: Bride dies day to wedding in Bauchi

    Fawziya Abdulkadir Tataru was beaming with excitement weeks back as she anticipates her wedding slated for 29th of December 2018.

    Tragedy stuck when the bride died a day to her wedding, December 28th, 2018.

    According to reports, Fawziya died due to complications from an undisclosed ailment yesterday.

    She will be buried later today at the Gwallaga mosque Bauchi where her wedding was slated for 11am today.

     

  • 10-year-old ‘bride’ confesses marriage to three different husbands

    10-year-old ‘bride’ confesses marriage to three different husbands

    A Kenyan girl has revealed how her parents had married her off to three men by the time, she was ten years old.

    According to a report by Daily Nation Kenya, the child is from Chepkirial Location in Tirioko Ward.

    “I was forced to undergo the cut( female genital mutilation) when I was very young. He later married me off to an old man. I escaped the marriage but was forced again to another man. I have been married to more than three men,” the young girl said.

    She said the major reason for her failed marriages was her failure to conceive.

    This child’s story comes to light as Daily Nation Kenya revealed that over a dozen girls have escaped from their homes over the fear that their families would force them to undergo female genital mutilation.

    The girls have been running to a missionary, Judy Seguto, who has relocated from her home to another locality for fear of being attacked by the family of the girls and their neighbours.

  • Katsina flood: Body of missing bride found in Niger Republic

    The remains of Hindatu Yahaya, a young girl, swept away by flood in Jibia town, Katsina, have been recovered in Niger Republic.

    The victim got married three days before the incident.

    Husband of the deceased, Malam Sani Yahaya, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Jibia how his wife’s body was recovered.

    “The corpse of my missing wife was retrieved at Girka village in Mada-Rumfa town of Niger Republic,” he said.

    Yahaya said that the flood occurred on Monday night at about 2:00am, cleared his house and took away his wife.

    “We searched in the river and rubles of the collapsed walls of my house and the houses of our neighbours but could not locate her.

    “As we were searching, we got a phone call from people that were helping us in Mada-Rumfa town of Niger Republic, that the corpse of a young woman had been retrieved from the river that passes through their town.

    “We rushed to the town and discovered that it was the remains of my wife that was fished out of the river.

    “We collected her dead body and brought her back to Jibia town, where we buried her in accordance with Islamic injunctions,” he said.

    Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has consoled with families of the victims and the state.

    He said he had accordingly directed the National Emergency Management Agency to do everything possible to bring succour to the victims wherever they were.

    “As rescue and prevention efforts continue, let me express the sincere condolences of my family, the government and people of Nigeria to all the victims of the destruction by the floods.

    “Let me assure you that we stand ready to provide, within available resources, every assistance that is needed to bring comfort to those in distress,” the President said.

  • Police arrest runaway bride who disappeared over groom’s inability to pay bridal price

    Police arrest runaway bride who disappeared over groom’s inability to pay bridal price

    The Police in Suleja, Niger, have confirmed the arrest of the parents and relation of a bride, who disappeared after her wedding, refusing to go to her husband’s home.

    The arrest of the trio followed a complaint to the police by their son-in-law, Shuaib Dauda, for the sudden disappearance of their daughter few hours after wedding.

    Dauda earns a living as an auto mechanic.

    Insp. Aliyu Lawal, Officer-in-charge of Kaduna-Road Police outpost in Suleja, gave the confirmation to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.

    Lawal said the incident occurred on May 6 when the bridegroom complained to the police that the people he sent to the bride’s home to fetch her, in accordance with the tradition, did not see her.

    Lawal said the footdragging by the brides’ family to deliver the bride to the bridegroom led to the disruption of peace in the area, hence the arrest of the parents and the marriage guardian.

    “They were arrested on Sunday, May 6, and granted bail on Monday May 7,” he said.

    But Mr Abubakar Haruna, popularly known as Zakiru and a resident of Hayi along Kaduna Road, told NAN that he gave out two daughters same day, Fiddausi to Dauda and Saliha to one Muhammadu Murtala.

    He said before the marriage, Dauda and Murtala promised to comply with all the religious and traditional obligations for the marriage such as the dowry and buying of clothes and boxes for the brides.

    “After the wedding ceremony, Dauda said he could not afford to buy the clothes and boxes to the bride as promised earlier.

    “Fiddausi, realising that Murtala (the husband to Saliha) had redeemed his promise and presented the traditional gifts and Dauda did not, ran away to the neighbouring house until her bridegroom fulfilled his own promise,’’ he said.

    Haruna said already beddings, traditional kitchen wares, furniture and other domestic utensils had been taken to Dauda’s home, ahead of the conveyance of Fiddausi to her new home.

    He explained that while they were searching for Fiddausi, the team sent by the bridegroom to fetch Fiddausi to the matrimonial home hinted Dauda of the sudden disappearance of the bride.

    He claimed Dauda mobilised his friends who stormed his compound, insisting that Fiddausi must be produced. In the process they molested him and brutalised his wife, named Bayi.

    “Some other female guests from Kano were also brutalised, food items and other valuables they brought for the wedding ceremony were stolen by the hoodlums who attacked us for our alleged failure to produce the bride,’’ Haruna said.

    Haruna said while the hoodlums were molesting his family and his guests, the police officers from Kaduna Road outpost arrested him, his wife and his younger brother who is also the marriage guardian. The latter was identified as Umar Musa.

    Haruna dismissed the allegation by the police that he was arrested for disrupting public peace in the community. Rather, he explained that the police asked him to refund N260,000 to Dauda, being the amount he spent on the marriage.

    Haruna said when he failed to pay the money as demanded, he was detained together with his wife and his younger brother by the police.

    According to him, they were detained overnight at the police outpost and were granted bail following the intervention of his lawyer, Mr Aliyu Musa.

    He said the bail was obtained on the condition that they would bring the money the following day or risk prosecution.

    Meanwhile, Fiddausi has returned to her father’s house.

  • Bandits abduct new bride, 10 others while moving to groom’s house in Kaduna

    There was pandemonium at Birnin Gwari Town in Kaduna State on Saturday night as suspected bandits abducted a newly wedded bride and ten others who were conveying her (the bride) to her husband’s house.

    The incident took place at about 8 p.m, according to a report by Premium Times.

    Confirming the kidnap, a former chairman of the local government who asked not to be named for security reasons said the gunmen operated with impunity as nobody challenged them.

    “They simply stopped a bus that was conveying the bride to her husband’s house with her relatives and friends numbering about 10. The incident took place about 55 kilometres from Birnin Gwari main town,” he said.

    It was however learnt that three of the people abducted including a member of the bride’s entourage escaped and returned to the town on Sunday morning.

    “The Funtua road is now a danger zone because at any point they (bandits) can strike. They operate with impunity along that highway because it’s bordering Birnin Gwari and Katsina.

    “Our ‎vigilantes need little support to engage these bandits. The government needs to mobilise the vigilantes and support them to enable them discharge their work effectively,” the ex-council chairman said.

    In a similar development, on Friday, two young men riding a motorcycle were also abducted along Uduwa community in Birnin Gwari.

    One of the victims is the son of the Deputy Imam of Uduwa village and the abductors are demanding N3 million ransom.

    Hussaini Iduwa, a community leader and resident of Oduwa town in Birnin Gwari, confirmed the abduction in a telephone interview.

    When contacted, the Kaduna State police spokesperson, Aliyu Muktar, said the command was not informed of the incidents.

     

  • Ondo ‘Runaway bride’, calls parents from Osun days after shunning her wedding occasion

    Ondo ‘Runaway bride’, calls parents from Osun days after shunning her wedding occasion

    The bride who failed to show up for her wedding ceremony on Saturday in Ondo town, Ondo State, Miss Taiwo Orimoloye, has called her parents from Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, according to a source close to the family.

    Taiwo failed to show up for the church service on her wedding day, disappointing her husband to-be and many guests who attended the wedding.

    Her parents and the family of the groom knew nothing about her whereabouts.

    However, a resident of Christ Land area in Oka, Ondo, where the Taiwo’s parents live, on condition of anonymity disclosed that the ‘runaway’ bride had called her parents on a different telephone line, informing them of her whereabouts.

    The resident said, “She has called her parents on a telephone line on Monday where she told them that she was in Osogbo. Her call, as a matter of fact has doused the tension in her family.

    “Everybody in the family is now happy that she is alive hale and hearty.”

    How it happened

    The incident, which occurred at Ondo town in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State, created confusion among guests, friends and family members. The bride’s aged mother was said to have collapsed when her daughter did not turn up for the wedding. She was rushed to the hospital.

    On Friday, family members of the groom took loads of gifts to the bride’s family for the engagement. As part of plans to make the ceremony elaborate, a cow was bought by the groom on the eve of the ceremony.

    The girl’s family allegedly rejected the cow, saying it was too small. A bigger cow was later presented to the family. However, there was a drama on Saturday as the bride abandoned the groom at the altar and absconded. Sources said the bride and groom were students of Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), Ondo State and had dated for seven years.

    The introduction of the two families took place on December 27, 2016. The families eventually fixed the engagement and wedding ceremonies for Friday and Saturday. The wedding was to be attended by important dignitaries within and outside the town. People, who visited the house of the Orimoloyes located at Christ Land area, Oka, Ondo town, said several visitors, including the monarch of Modakeke in Osun State, Oba Sikiru Ogunsua, as well as several members of a Pentecostal church from Lagos State, were waiting for the bride. A cow and several food items were under a big canopy in front of the bride’s home. Kehinde, the bride to be twin sister, was weeping profusely.

    The best man said all arrangements had been concluded. He said the church service was to be held at Celestial Church of Christ, New Covenant Parish, Oka, Ondo. He said he couldn’t fathom what went wrong. One of the men in suit said all was well with the groom and the bride until the lady disappeared.

    He said the bride switched off her phone lines and all attempts to reach her were futile. He added that aside the fact that Taiwo threw the family of the groom, including visitors into confusion, her disappearance on the day of the ceremony had created tension between both families.

    One of the groom’s men said all seemed to be well between bride and groom. He said they would not have planned the ceremonies if there was a frosty relationship between the families or the supposedly would-be couple. At the time of filling this report, the whereabouts of the bride were still unknown. All her phones remained switched off. Later, the two families were said to have gone to the police station in Ondo town to report Taiwo’s disappearance.