Uthman Salami

Lagos

Senior Correspondent at The Punch

Senior Crrespondent @MobilePunch | Runner up @NMMA 2023 Capital Market Correspondent Category | Field: Investigative, Human interest and Development Journalism

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Kidnappers demand N500,000 ransom for abducted five-year-old girl

3 days ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

Nigerian Police Force Logo Suspected kidnappers who abducted a five-year-old girl, Memunah Abdulrahman, in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State have contacted her family, demanding a ransom of N500,000. The girl’s father, Abdurrahman Alimi, disclosed this in an interview with PUNCH Metro. The missing girl, Memunah Abdulrahman, was abducted on March 9, 2025, while returning home from an Islamic school.
After 78 Nigerians’ rescue, NAPTIP vows crackdown on traffickers

3 days ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

NAPTIP DG, Binta Adamu Bello The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Binta Bello, has vowed that the agency will be unrelenting in tracking down traffickers. Bello gave this assurance following the repatriation of 78 Nigerians from Côte d’Ivoire. According to a statement on Sunday, the repatriated Nigerians, who include 73 women, two men, and three infants, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Saturday evening.
Man arrested for defiling 12-year-old girl in Lagos

3 days ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

Photo of police officers on duty. The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old girl (name withheld) in the Ayobo area of Lagos State. Spokesperson for the command, Chief Superintendent of Police Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to PUNCH Metro on Sunday. “The suspect has indeed been apprehended,” Hundeyin said.
Ex-NIMASA DG launches book for maritime industry

6 days ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

The pioneer Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Mfom Usoro, has unveiled a new book, “International Trade and Carriage of Goods by Sea: Texts, Cases, and Materials” for practitioners in the maritime industry. The book launch, held on Tuesday in Lagos, attracted personalities from all walks of life, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, and Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) and Umo Eno (Akwa Ibom).
Ghana court jails Nigerian trafficking HIV patient for prostitution

6 days ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

The Tarkwa Circuit Court in Ghana has sentenced a 32-year-old Nigerian woman, Patience Gold, to 20 years in prison for trafficking four young women, including one living with HIV from Nigeria to Ghana for forced prostitution. According to Graphic Online, a Ghanaian news outlet, on Thursday, the presiding judge, Hathia Manu, found Gold guilty on four charges, including human trafficking, illegal abortion, assault, and prostitution. “For human trafficking, she was handed a 20-year sentence.
NANS protests student loan mismanagement, blocks Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

1 week ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

The CP along with members of NANS The Ogun State Police Command has restored order to the Carpark C section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway after protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Ogun State chapter, barricaded the highway on Monday. The demonstration, which caused a temporary disruption to vehicular movement, was staged in response to alleged mismanagement of student loan funds and broader grievances about the education sector.
Police nab fleeing killer of 65-year-old woman

1 week ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

The Lagos State Police Command has announced the arrest of Abubakar Iliyasu, the prime suspect in the murder of 65-year-old Jane Okoye, who was killed in the Orile Iganmu area of Lagos on April 2, 2025. A statement by the spokesperson of the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Sunday, disclosed that Iliyasu was apprehended by detectives from the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, after being tracked to Ankpa, Kogi State.
Okomu oil trains community leaders

1 week ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc has organised a leadership training for members of its host communities in Ovia North East, Ovia South West, and Uhunmwonde local government areas of Edo State, aimed at addressing recurring leadership crises and fostering peaceful co-existence.
Shock as Nigerian nurse found dead in UK apartment

1 week ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

A Nigerian nurse based in Leeds, United Kingdom, Nnena Miriam, has been found dead in her apartment, sparking grief and shock within the nursing community both in the UK and Nigeria. According to Fellow Nurses Africa, an organisation dedicated to advancing the nursing profession in Africa, Miriam’s body was discovered by the police after a missing person report was filed.
Ex-cop declared wanted for 2015 murder of Lagos mother

1 week ago | punchng.com | Uthman Salami

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square The Tafawa Balewa Square High Court of Lagos has declared as wanted Aremu Musiliu, a former police officer accused of the murder of Comfort Udoh in 2015. Aremu, on September 16, 2015, allegedly shot Comfort in the head at Ijegun Bus Stop, after a failed attempt to extort N2,000 from Comfort’s husband, Pastor Godwin Udoh of the Full Gospel Church of God.