Fulani invades Enugu community

Yesterday there were rumours that Fulani herdsmen would attack some communities in Enugu State. Chairman, Transition Committee, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Cornell Onwubuya, reportedly alerted Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the state Commissioner of Police, Ekechukwu on the development.
He was said to have further alerted the leaders of the Fulani community in Enugu State, who met with stakeholders from Uzo-Uwani to address the issue.

AIT:The Poet blabbed on Shakespeare's 400th anniversary

It is now clear why many critics say the quality of Nigerian literature has fallen.

So, last Saturday, AIT news hour brought “a writer, poet and one-time Secretary of the Association of Nigeria Authors” to say something on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death.

She said WS was well known and widely read, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Bla bla bla. I say mundane!

The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures From al Qaeda

Months earlier, the Ford Foundation office in Lagos, Nigeria, had given Mr. Haidara a $12,000 grant to study English at Oxford in the fall and winter of 2012. The money had been wired to a savings account. He emailed the foundation and asked for authorization to reallocate the funds to protect the manuscripts from the hands of Timbuktu’s occupiers. The money was released in three days. Mr. Haidara recruited his nephew, and they reached out to archivists, secretaries, Timbuktu tour guides and a half-dozen of Mr. Haidara’s relatives.

The result was a heist worthy of “Ocean’s Eleven.” They bought metal and wooden trunks at a rate of between 50 and 80 a day, made more containers out of oil barrels and located safe houses around the city and beyond. They organized a small army of packers who worked silently in the dark and arranged for the trunks to be carried by donkey to their hiding places.

Over the course of eight months, the operation came to involve hundreds of packers, drivers and couriers. They smuggled the manuscripts out of Timbuktu by road and by river, past jihadist checkpoints and, in government territory, suspicious Malian troops. By the time French troops invaded the north in January 2013, the radicals had managed to destroy only 4,000 of Timbuktu’s nearly 400,000 ancient manuscripts. “If we hadn’t acted,” Mr. Haidara told me later, “I’m almost 100% certain that many, many others would have been burned.”

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Ekweremadu now EFCC ambassador, calls for special courts

DEPUTY President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said yesterday that if war against corruption must be achieved in all its ramifications, there was the urgent need to establish special anti-corruption courts.
Senator Ekweremadu, who noted that the setting up of such courts would help reduce the burden on regular courts and fast-track trial of corruption cases, spoke when he was decorated anti-corruption ambassador by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
He was decorated in his office by a team from EFCC, led by the National Assembly Liaison Officer, Suleiman Bakari.

My hubby won't leave this neighbour

MY HUSBAND and I have been married for 19 years and have three children. We’ve lived in this friendly neighbourhood throughout our married life and my husband is an extrovert. 
He goes out in the evening with friends and he sits in their homes drinking beer and this is how our problem started. There is this single woman, who moved into her house a few years ago with her two kids. 
Recently, my husband has been constantly visiting her house, not just with other neighbours, but alone.
Some of our neighbours warned me about the implication of these visits and I got angry. I asked my husband what was going on. At first he denied but later admitted that they had feelings for each other, but had not slept together. 
I warned him if he didn’t stop visiting her, I would leave. He promised to stop, but he still visits her under the guise of visiting our neighbours. 
I feel hurt and jealous. I keep thinking he’ll renew the affair and I don’t think I can handle him being in the same room with her. 
He can talk to her in the street, but not at her home. 

I’m scared of leaving after 16 years together

My partner and I have been together for 16 years, but we’ve achieved nothing in that time. 
We still don’t live together and to be honest, I don’t trust him. I know he’s cheating on me as he often gets sexy texts from girls. 
I no longer want to stay with him, but I’m scared to go. I don’t know if l have the strength to leave. 

Accident at Mile 2 today

A selfie gone fatal

A 19-year-old girl was taking a selfie in Foshan, south China. She ignored the honking of the train and shouting from other tourists.

She ended up dead, taken away in an ambulance. 

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They are very obedient

He was told not to step his feet outside the house.

I have never had orgasm

This may sound weird, especially as I’m a mother of four: but I’ve never had sex while sober. And I’ve never “made love”— only had sex. I don’t reach orgasm and I always need a stiff-drink before hand.
I’m currently separated from my husband and have been on my own for over a year. Although I’ve had a few short-term relationships, I back off when men start to get serious.
I’m scared I’ll never have a long-term relationship again. What should I do?

It sounds as though there is something about sex that terrifies you. As a result, what should be a loving experience is something so bad that you need a stiff drink to face it.
But why? Did you have a bad experience when you were young? Or could it be the men you’ve slept with weren’t right for you— you don’t fancy or even like them? Do you have enough time for foreplay before you have sex? 
You need to get together with trusted friends you can talk these problems over with and your doctor should be involved too, so you can really understand what’s going on and try and correct such. 
It takes time to get over frigidity, but you owe it to yourself to try.
(Bunmi Sofola)

He weeps after sex

My boyfriend is the same age as me - 26 - and I’m worried about him. Our sex life is great, but once it’s over, he suddenly changes and becomes depressed.
He even cried a couple of times and then left a sad man. I’m used to men turning over and going to sleep after sex, but his behaviour is weird, to say the least.
Do you think he has hormone problems?

Orgasms often produce immediate after-effects in men and women. Hormones are partly to blame, although emotions—including love, as well as fears about sex— are important too. 
Most people feel relaxed, and you’re not alone in finding men rolling over and dozing off after sex.
But your boyfriend’s reaction is extreme, and it sounds as if sex makes him feel guilty and anxious. The problem might improve as he becomes more confident with you, if not, then encourage him to have a word with his doctor unfailingly. 
(Bunmi Sofola)

No be joke o

Somebody's definition of madness

On a social media forum, somebody says:
How to know a MAD man: He wakes up in the morning. Puts on his clothes and, without washing his face or brushing his teeth, heads straight to the filling station. 
On getting there, he sees an unprecedented multitude queuing up for fuel. He spends about 7 hours on the queue before it gets to his turn and eventually buys PMS for 200/litre. 
He heads back home, fuels his generator, charges his phone and then posts on Facebook #IstandWithBuhari.

Someone read a post on Vanguard's website and his response is engaging

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN. THE CALL, When America saw the killing in the north in 2011 just because GEJ won the presidential election, they predicted the disintegration of Nigeria in 2015 knowing that there would be another presidential election and GEJ will again win and the war will begin.
 2015 came, they heard and interpreted the Dogs and Baboons soaking in blood statement. America got prepared, they waited in Ghana and observe the happenings the world tuned their ears listening for the sound of bombs and watched expecting the first attack. The "clock stood still" tension walked through the cities, terror became neighbours, everybody became a suspect. 
He remembered the prediction, he remembered the threat, he also remembered the action in 2011. He asked himself, is my political ambition worth the blood of any man? The phone resting on the table Results on cable Jega's voice not stable States still calling Results still coming Tension keep building Prediction drawing near Threat on alert. He remembered you!!!! Your importance to your family Your value to the society Your hope for the future. 
He thought of a way out of this impending secretly organised war. Just then, he picked his phone He dialled a number He said congratulations And: America's prediction failed Buhari's threat failed He uphold the peace He uphold ONE Nigeria The CALL wasn't because he lost The CALL was for you to live And YOU are still alive after 365days. Please, appreciate him and say .... THANK YOU SIR
Vanguard

Police trouble: Sergeant dies during romp with Corporal’s wife

A Police Sergeant, Jude Nwandudu, who slumped in a hotel in Iju area of Lagos State, weekend, has died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, where he was rushed to.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the late Nwandudu, a father of four, went to the hotel in the company of the wife of an unnamed policeman, who lives in the same barracks with him, to unwind for the just-concluded Easter celebrations.
However, tragedy struck when, after relaxing with his lover, Nwandudu slipped and fell in the bathroom while having a shower. He hit his head on the bath tub and collapsed. His lover raised the alarm that attracted members of staff of the hotel.
Report said Nwandudu, who was attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, was rushed to a nearby hospital, from where he was transferred to LUTH, where he died.
His lover, as gathered, had been invited for questioning but was later released.

Sokoto earmarks N30m for wedding of 100 couples

Sokoto State Government says it has set aside N30 million for the organisation of the wedding of 100 couples in the area, which will be coordinated by the state Sunnah Mediation Council.
The Chairman of the Council, Alhaji Aliyu Kofar-Rini, disclosed this in Sokoto, saying the wedding would be conducted before the commencement of Ramadan, which is expected to begin in June.
He said the council, would pay the bride prices of all the female partners: N30,000 for spinsters and N20,000 for divorcees.

Just that there's no address

Some one who has NO reason to lie or, to my knowledge, knows nothing about graphics saw this, took the picture and posted on his Facebook page.
For the “believers,” there's just one trouble: no address.

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I prefer mastubation to losing my virginity

I am in my late teens and have been masturbating now for months. I look forward to it all the time as it is better than messing up with men and catching AIDS.
I have boyfriends of course and we kiss and cuddle at times, but I’ve never been penetrated as I come from a strict Catholic home.
The problem now is that, I feel guilty whenever I masturbate in case I’ve damaged my hymen.

My daughter wants to leave her husband

My daughter has been married for 14 years and has two small children. She runs her own business which she admitted could be stressful.
She says there is no longer any spark in her marriage and she wants a divorce while she’s young enough to try another relationship. Her husband is generous and respectful. As hard-working as he is, he spends most of his free time with their children.
My husband and I understand it’s her life to live, but we want to stop her from breaking up her family. How can we convince her that she’s making a huge mistake?
There isn’t any other man involved as far as we know.

Be careful with Oga Sarge

Olololo

My husband's friend doesn’t want to go public with our affair

I‘ve been having an affair with one of my husband’s good friends for the past six months and I think I’m in love with him. He’s also married and we’re all good family friends. 
I’m really confused about the relationship as he carries on as if nothing is between us when we’re with other people, yet he shows a lot of passion in the bedroom. 
In fairness to him, it all started out as a bit of fun and I’m sure that’s the way he still sees it. I daren’t tell him the way I feel in case he ends the affair. 
I also don’t want to seem pushy as he’s made no promises. I know he’s sexually attracted to me. But is that all? 

How do I handle a husband batterer?

My wife has always been very possessive and hates me going out without her, even before we got married nine years ago.
Recently though, her jealousy has become so bad that the rows have turned violent. If I talk to another woman at a party, she kicks me viciously under the table, and when we get back home, she attacks me.
I try to fend her off, but it is difficult as she is bigger than me. 
I have had teeth marks and other bruises and it’s difficult coming up with a story explaining my wounds that my workmates would believe. 
I’ve also had a nasty gash at the back of my neck after she pushed me backwards off my chair. I’ve tried talking to her but she wouldn’t listen and the violence is getting worse. 
I’m afraid she might really hurt me one of these days. What else do you think I can do? 

Vanguard Mr. & Mrs

How fufu led these robbers to Waterloo

Operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Police Command have arrested three teenagers over robbery, after they snatched a bag containing two wraps of fufu and stew from a lady.
Members of the gang, identified as Daniel Dali, 19; Emmanuel Ashaolu, 17, and Ikenna Bright, 17, were arrested on Friday in Ajegunle by a surveillance team that was on routine patrol of the area.
It was learned that Dali, a commercial motorcyclist from Cotonu, and Ashaolu reportedly snatched the bag from a lady, who raised alarm. 
The operatives pursued the suspects, who were on Okada, and arrested Ashaolu. Later, they mobilised and combed the area at night, leading to the arrest of Dali, the Okada rider and Bright.
However, on interrogation, it turned out that they were part of a robbery syndicate. Dali confessed that he rides the Okada for the gang and that he started stealing in April 2015 after the death of his mother.

Penguin swims 5,000 miles every year for reunion with the man who saved his life

 THE LAST SENTENCE OF THIS STORY IS SO POIGNANT

It’s the story of a South American Magellanic penguin who swims 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life.

Retired bricklayer and part time fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, who lives in an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, found the tiny penguin, covered in oil and close to death, lying on rocks on his local beach in 2011.

Joao cleaned the oil off the penguin’s feathers and fed him a daily diet of fish to build his strength. He named him Dindim.

After a week, he tried to release the penguin back into the sea. But, the bird wouldn’t leave. ‘He stayed with me for 11 months and then, just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared,’ Joao recalls.

And, just a few months later, Dindim was back. He spotted the fisherman on the beach one day and followed him home.

For the past five years, Dindim has spent eight months of the year with Joao and is believed to spend the rest of the time breeding off the coast of Argentina and Chile.

It’s thought he swims up to 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life.

Gifted mind

Oresegun Olumide

TORCHBEARER: It's her new profile picture

Brains, fashion, style, swag.

33 docked over Mile 12 riots; Trial begins April 7

Thirty-three persons were, yesterday, arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, over the recent Mile 12 riots.

It would be recalled that over four people lost their lives, while properties worth millions of Naira were destroyed in riots that broke out in Agiliti area of Ketu, Mile 12, last week.

It was gathered that about 105 persons were arrested after the riots, out of which the 33 were arraigned yesterday.

Roll call

Those arraigned included: Sanusi Mohammed, 17; Haruna Abdulahi, 30; Umaru Bala, 18; Saheed Tahir Abdulahi, 20; Musa Isa, 22; Biliaminu Dauda, 15; Abeeb Ibrahim, 16; Farouq Abdamu, 22; Aminu Abubakar, 22; Sanni Amadu, 24.

Others are Amoo Mustapha, 42; Danjuma Adamson, 30; America Umaru Saidu, 21; Awolu Alli, 30; Rufai Ibrahim, 15; Monday Obasi, 37; Aminu Abubakar, 19; Abdulquddus Olalekan Ajuwon, 19; Tunde Nureni, 24; Abdulahi Umoru, 20; Musa Usman, 35; Abdulahi Aliyu, 35.

The others are Aminu Saidi Ibrahim, 19; Sunday Idoko, 48; Hassan Adam, 39; Yahaya Sheu Malami, 23; Rabiu Hamza, 19; Nura Yahu, 19; Rayyanu Lawal, 34; Abdurama Mohammed, 40; Abubakar Tasu, 28; Sunday Lawal, 15, and Sani Ahasy, 15.

Thugs demolish 2,000 shops at Ladipo market

A section of Ladipo Market in Odo-Aladura, Mushin area of Lagos State, was yesterday invaded by armed thugs, who demolished over 2,000 shops and destroyed goods worth millions of naira.
The area mostly affected is the BAKKASI Zone, where one of the contenders to a portion of the market, the Owoyemi family, allegedly used one tout to carry out the demolition.
Eyewitness reports had it that thugs came in company of security personnel with an unmarked Black Maria around 3a.m. to demolish the market.

Major-General Abubakar, Boko Haram war hero dies in auto crash

Leader of onslaught against Boko Haram, Major General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar, is dead.
A top military source confirmed the incident yesterday, stating that the former Commander of Operation Lafiye Dole died in an auto accident along Damaturu Road.
The Nigerian Army confirmed this in a statement last night, saying “the Nigerian Army wishes to inform the public of the involvement of its Chief of Training and Operations (Army), Major General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar and the Acting General Officer Commanding 3 Division, Nigerian Army, Brigadier General M. S. A. Aliyu in a road traffic accident along Maiduguri-Damaturu Road today (yesterday).
“Regrettably, we lost Major General Yusha’u Abubakar to the accident, while Brigadier General Aliyu sustained some injuries and is receiving treatment.”

One dies in fight over urine

A yet-to-be identified middle-aged man has been reportedly killed, while three others were injured during a minor fracas at Berger Suya area of Lagos State, yesterday.
Trouble started at about 10a.m., after a middle-aged man, identified as Friday Momoh, urinated beside a parked truck.
It was learned that the victim allegedly confronted Friday, who he had initially warned not to urinate beside the truck because of the offensive stench.
The confrontation degenerated into a brawl between both men leading to Friday attacking the victim with a broken bottle.
Shops were under lock and key as traders deserted their shops, while policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer from Trinity Division were seen trying to restore normalcy.
The victim’s corpse had been deposited in the morgue, while the injured victims have been taken to the hospital.

The Torchbearer

Brains, fashion, style, swag. Happy Sunday everyone.

Nancy Reagan is dead

Nancy Reagan, former First Lady, wife of President Ronald Reagan of USA (1981 to 1989), has died aged 94. She passed away in Bel Air, today.

Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004 after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.

She was born Anne Francis Robbins in New York City in 1921.

Mother's Day

Behind the existence of every living souls is a woman who serve as an entrance for everyone that is find on earth and that is "MOTHER". We all find ourselves one faithful day playing all around the surrounding with out having the knowledge of how it happens, we are been nursed up with food and shelter just for you to have a good life and survive with your mate in other for you to be blessed to achieve your dreams and fulfillment your destinies without you knowing what that woman called your mother is passing through, no one on earth knows the amount of plans our mother has passed through just because they want the best for us and want us to have a good life, they went so far to the least they some of them give up on their dreams just for us to accomplished ours. 
But the most amazing thing and surprising thing is that most people always have it at the back of their mind that what has their mother done for them that looks so special. Although this might be as a result of the pains their mother as cost them but no matter how a mother treat her child, they do that with the motherly love they have for us. Every mother have different techniques and method of bring us a child, the way my mother brought me up might be different from the way your mother brought you up, but they are all working towards the same goal. 
Most people hate their mother because they were brought up in a ash way and have make up their mind never to forgive her because of the pains she put on them. You don't have to do that, she don't want you to live a life you will regret when you grew up, that's why she is doing. Some people who find themselves or grew up in a motherless home whom later find out that they still have a mother always develop a great hatred towards their mother believing she is a wicked being. You don't have to do that, you have to appreciate her for what she did, she want the best for you that's why she dropped you their, she already knows the great danger awaiting you if she keeps you with her. 
Insight World

Healthiest at 30, best sex at 32 and happiest at 39

The average Briton is at their healthiest at the age of 30, wealthiest at 47 and has the best sex at 32 - according to new research.

The poll of 2,000 men and women found that we are ultimately the happiest when we turn 39 in a detailed investigation into life's key milestones.

People were also identified as being most body confident at 31 but doing the best in their careers by the age of 38.

According to the study of Britons, other major moments in our lives include being the most content in our relationship at the age of 40 and earning our dream salary two years later at 42.

But when asked whether they would like scientific advances to allow us to live forever, only one in four (23 percent) said they would.

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15 die in Ondo road disaster

NO fewer than 15 persons were roasted alive in an auto crash involving three vehicles, yesterday, along Akure-Owo Expressway in Ondo State, as other motorists watched helplessly.
Four persons, who reportedly survived, were admitted at the intensive care unit of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owo.
Eyewitness account said the accident occurred at about 2p.m., between Amurin and Uso in Owo Local Government area of the state. The vehicles involved are a bus marked FG 357BOT, a Toyota Siena marked LSR 163, and another Toyota Previa bus, whose number plates had fallen off.
Two of the vehicles reportedly had a head-on collision after one of the drivers overtook the other at a sharp bend.
The third car, which was speeding, was said to have rammed into the two vehicles and an explosion reportedly occurred in which the victims were roasted alive.
An unconfirmed report said that the casualties may have been caused by the explosion of some jerry cans containing petrol that were inside the commercial bus.
Officials of the state’s fire service and the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, who raced to the scene, rescued four persons.

Man steals from church offering box

A member of Saint Peter's Catholic Church, Ejigbo, Lagos, has been arrested for allegedly stealing money from the church’s offering box.
The suspect, identified simply as Kingsley, was apprehended by the church’s private guards Tuesday and N5,000, which he allegedly stole, recovered from him. Preliminary investigation showed that Kingsley had earlier been arrested for same offence.
He had gone to church on Tuesday for the regular morning mass.
While other worshippers left after the service, Kingsley stayed behind, waiting for all to go, pretending to be having personal prayer time.

One dies as NURTW factions clash in Lagos

A yet-to-be-identified person was, yesterday, shot and feared killed after two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, clashed at Oshodi over chairmanship tussle.
A member of the transport union, was shot at the entrance of Brown Street, where the fight started with his remains still lying at the scene at press time. The fracas spread to other axes of Oshodi.
A resident, Mrs. Olatunbosun, said: “I do not know when the clash started. But when I arrived here this morning (yesterday), I saw the corpse of a man at the entrance of Brown Street.
“I was told this was where the fight started. I do not know who the person is.”
It was learned that Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, was at the scene earlier, directing that an Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, and a patrol vehicle be stationed at the scene to forestall an escalation of the crisis.

Man beheads step-mother in Benue

Obaganya community, a suburb in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, was thrown into deep mourning yesterday after a middle-aged man, Echeno Adakole, beheaded his 50-year-old step-mother, Titi Enokela, allegedly for ritual purpose.
The suspect allegedly ambushed the victim at a family farm settlement, hit her with a piece of wood and cut off her head. He thereafter wrapped it with the dead woman’s cloth and put it in a polyethylene bag.
According to the source, “family members noticed that the woman had not returned from the farm and it was getting dark. Her children and other family members went looking for her; they found her headless body tucked away in a corner of the family farm.

Another 14-yr-old girl abducted in Sokoto

Relations of another missing 14-year-old girl, Patience Paul, have alleged that the primary six pupil of Mohammed Zako Model Primary School, Sokoto, may have been abducted and housed at the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto.
Father of the girl, Mr. Paul Adaji, an indigene of Ochobo in Ohimini Local Government Area of Benue State, said his daughter had been missing since August 12, 2015.
Adaji, who resides in Sokoto with his family, alleged that some persons spotted his daughter at the Sultan’s palace.
He said: “We got information that she was in the Sultan’s palace and the last time we went there, we did not find her.”
When asked how they knew she was at the palace, he said: “Some people told us that they saw her at the palace. They also used to camp some of them there, that was why we went to the palace to see if she has been taken there.
“Even her friend, who used to be a Christian, was found there. She was taken there and they converted her.
“We will still continue to search for her. We will not give up; we only want the world to help us so that our daughter can be released to us.”

Brother’s story
Corroborating Mr. Adaji’s story, his son, Paul Isaac Adaji, gave an account of circumstances that led to the disappearance of his sister.
He said: “Patience is my younger sister. We are based in Sokoto. That is where the issue occurred. My dad is in Sokoto but we lost our mother two years ago. My younger sister was brain-washed from school, Mohammed Zako Model Primary school, Sokoto. She is a primary six pupil.
“The fact is that sometime last year, we noticed she started keeping some funny friends and her attitude started changing. This is a girl that normally likes attending church activities.
“We cautioned her but along the line, she changed. Then again, she started misbehaving. So at that point, my parent and I decided to move her out of Sokoto and return her to Benue State so the rumours of children converting does not happen to us as we do not have anybody to fight for us.
“Unfortunately, what we were scared of later happened to us. Sometimes we will see her returning from school with a veil covering her head. When we inquired, she said it was given to her by her friend in school.
“We cautioned her on several occasions. But we later arranged with my dad to get her back to Benue.  Unfortunately, she got to know about our plan to send her back to Benue and obviously informed the people who were brainwashing her and they eventually abducted her.
“When we could not see her, we started serious investigation and along the line, discovered that it was one of our neighbours who actually abducted her.

Hisbah takes over
“We reported the matter to the police. The masterminds of her abduction were invited by the Police. They made their confessions that the girl wanted to join their religion, which was why they abducted her. They said they took her to the Hisbah (Islamic Police).

Kidnap of a kind in the offing