Abd¥cted Mother and Her Four-Month-Old Baby Rescued in Kogi After B@ndit Att@ck
A woman and her four-month-old baby who were abd¥cted during a b@ndit att@ck on Ijalu Compound in Egbe, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State, have been rescued by security operatives.
The rescue comes after suspected terr%rists stormed the Ijalu area of Egbe on Wednesday evening, abd¥cting the woman and her child during an att@ck along the Solid Rock School axis of the community.
The victims, identified as Mrs. Idowu Kemi Titilayo and her infant child, were freed through a joint operation involving local security personnel in Egbe and troops of the Nigerian Army.
The mother and child were kidn@pped on Wednesday night when armed attackers invaded the Ijalu community, causing panic among residents.
Following the abd¥ction, security operatives immediately launched a coordinated search operation to track down the assa+lants. The efforts eventually led to the successful rescue of both victims.
Although details of the operation remain unclear, community sources confirmed that Mrs. Titilayo and her baby were rescued alive and safely reunited with their family.
My friend sent money home every month for almost six years.
School fees. Rent. Hospital bills. Family projects.
Whenever there was a problem, everyone called him first.
Last year, he lost his job.
For the first time in six years, he stopped sending money home.
A few weeks later, there was a family meeting.
Nobody asked how he was coping.
Nobody mentioned his unemployment.
Instead, they talked about how he had "changed."
He sat there quietly while his people listed all the things he no longer did for the family.
When he was telling me this, tears filled his eyes💔
This one shook me to my core 💔
Nigeria has many ways of failing its people… and this is one of the cruelest.
Meet Gospel Uabari Kinanee. In 2007, he was just 14 years old. He left home to play football with friends and never came back.
For months, his family turned Rivers State upside down. Hospitals, police stations, morgues — they checked everywhere. No Gospel.
The search broke them. His parents sold their land, their property, everything they had to find their son. The pain and stress was too much. Eventually, both of them died from heartbreak 💔
The world assumed Gospel was dead too. Years passed. 18 long years.
Then in 2025, out of nowhere, his older brother got a call: “We found your brother. He’s in a correctional facility in Rivers State.”
For 18 years, Gospel had been locked up. A 14-year-old boy who went out to play.
When they asked for his case file, there was nothing. No charges. No court record. No reason for his arrest. Just a child… forgotten behind bars.
The worst part? Gospel lost himself in there. His mind couldn’t carry the weight. He doesn’t recognize his brother. He can’t explain how he ended up in prison. The boy who left home to play ball is now a man who can’t remember his own story 😢
How does a child disappear into the system for 18 years without a case?
How many more “Gospels” are wasting away in prison right now for nothing?
This is not just his story. This is a wake-up call for all of us.
Nigeria, how do we fix this? How many innocent lives are we still losing to silence and broken systems? Talk to me
#JusticeForGospel
😭💔 I dropped my daughter at school that morning and went to work, never knowing that very day was my last day of seeing my beautiful daughter.
A few hours later, I received the most painful news a mother could ever hear — band!ts had attacked the school and kidnapped everyone, including my little girl and her teachers. Since then, my daughter has been in the forest, and I don't know if she is safe or even alive. 😭
The pain is too much for me to bear😭. Every day I cry, pray, and hope for a miracle. God, please protect my child and bring her back home alive. 🙏💔
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#CFC see João as key part of project, it’s not about bid/value. No intention to sell at all.
Chelsea consider João untouchable. 🇧🇷
“I bathed my child and sent her to school. I was in the kitchen cooking so she would have something to eat when she returned when I suddenly saw b@nd!ts entering our town, and they started sh%%t!ng.
I hid myself, and from where I was hiding, I saw them assembling my child together with other children.
I am appealing to the government. I am from Benin Republic. I came here to work as a merchant so I can take care of my children, hoping they will also take care of me when I am old.
Their father is late. I’m working as a trader to support her. The government should please help us bring our child back alive...”
- Mother of one of the abd&ct£d Oyo students shares her p@!nful experience, appeals to the government to help bring the children back alive.
Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.
Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, ‘Please, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know I’m coming for her.’
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: ‘Dad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. I’m traumatized. I can’t forgive myself. Even if I’m released, I’ll kill myself. Don’t bother paying the ransom.’
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you don’t know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.
Rest in peace to my neighbor.