NYSC denies asking corps members to prepare ransom

The NYSC has said that its handbook does not contain any clause asking corps members to alert their families to prepare ransom.

A picture had gone viral about a section of the agency’s handbook that addresses the posibility of serving corps members getting kidnapped when travelling on high risk roads.

In the handbook, the Scheme listed “Abuja-Kaduna, Abuja-Lokoja-Okene, or Aba-Port Harcourt” as some of the roads, where they could be kidnapped.

The handbook titled, ‘Security Awareness and Education Handbook For Corps Members and Staff’ expressly asked corps members on page 59 to “alert your family members, friends and colleagues, in order to have someone on hand to pay off the ransom that could be demanded.”

The NYSC have swiftly come out to deny the existence of such handbook, and maintains that serving Corps members have proof the original handbook which does not contain any such statement.

Nigeria Police sack trigger happy officer that killed 18 year old Ijesha girl

Sergeant Samuel Philipps, the police officer who shot dead Monsurat Ojuade, an 18-year-old girl in Ijesha-tedo, a Lagos suburb, on Friday, September 10, 2021, has been dismissed from the force.

The deceased and her sister were running to their home during a police raid of the neighborhood, when a bullet from Philipp's gun struck her thighs.

She was rushed to a couple of hospitals but never made it alive eventually.

“This is to inform the general public that Sgt Samuel Philipps who was tried for the shooting incident of 10th September, 2021 that led to the death of Monsurat Ojuade has been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force,” a statement from Adekunle Ajisebutu, Lagos police spokesperson, reads.

Ajisebutu adds that "he was dismissed after the conclusion of his orderly room trial. The suspect will be charged to court today for murder.

“Recall that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had promised that the matter would be properly investigated and that justice would be served. This action is, therefore, done in fulfillment of that promise.

“The commissioner of police further sympathises with the bereaved family, and reiterates his earlier promise that justice would be done in this case.”

During his visit to the deceased's family on Monday, September 13, 2021, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said the Police Force deeply regretted the unfortunate incident that led to the death of the teenager.