“I can’t give all the details because we don’t want to compromise ongoing investigations. But I can tell you one thing: my mother suffered a great deal during this ordeal. It was only the Almighty that rescued her from a situation that could very easily have ended tragically. Apart from the emotional trauma of being violently taken away from her family and kept incommunicado for five days in a strange environment, a woman of 83 years was left without food for five days.
“While she was in their custody, the kidnappers spent much of the time harassing her. They told her that I must get on the radio and television and announce my resignation. When she asked why, they told her it was because I did not pay oil subsidy money.
"Yes, Don Jazzy bought a house recently but not the reported one at Nicon Estate. That is not Don Jazzy's home. " The rep said
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| Nkiru on movie location with Kenneth Okolie in Owerri a few days before she was kidnapped |
"The Government of Imo State is aware of the kidnap of the Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Nkiru Sylvanus. All security agencies in the state are doing everything possible to get her back safely.
“The kidnappers have made contact with certain government officials. Government will offer a substantial reward to anyone with useful information about her whereabouts.”
“From what I’ve always known she’s his girlfriend and that’s where it lies for me. I see everything in the media and I don’t get into the detail of it but everyone has their own life and how they deal with things. They have the right to handle it how they want. Karrueche is a sweetheart I will tell you that. I think they do make a very good couple. She’s a very good friend of mine and I do love her.”See the video after the cut...
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| Olaseni Odebiyi, winner, Etisalat Prize for Innovation (most innovative product/service), Ololade Babalola, runner up, most innovative idea, Steven Evans, CEO, Etisalat Nigeria, Olalekan Ayorinde, runner up, most innovative product/service and Oyehmi Begho, winner Etisalat prize for innovation (most innovative idea) at the Africa Com Awards gala dinner in Cape Town on 15th November 2012 |
The pilots appeared to have sighted a space at the swampy mangrove, few metres to the crash site, and made some efforts to land the ill-fated helicopter. In an unclear circumstance, the helicopter was said to have attempted going up again but in the process, its blades hit one of the palm trees surrounding the area and it came crashing.
Yakowa’s mobile telephone was intact as it kept ringing after the crash. “When we brought the body out, we started hearing sounds of phone ringing from the left side of his pocket. We later discovered that calls were coming to the telephone and it could be from concerned persons but no one answered,” a security source, who pleaded anonymity, said.
