A man who was allegedly held captive for 20 years in the basement of his father and step-mother's house, was too traumatised to speak after being filmed shortly after his release from the torturous experience.
Via Mirror.co.uk Armando de Andrade, who disappeared when he was 16, was found tied to a bed in a tiny, windowless room by police searching houses for drugs gang members, it's reported.
Witnesses said the man, now aged 36, had "enormous" toenails and fingernails and a long beard which had grown to his knees while police said he was "malnourished".
Detectives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, believe he lived in virtual darkness for two decades in a room without light fittings, while the floor was reportedly covered in human faeces. Police chief Celso Marchiori, who is investigating the case, said of the moment policemen found him:
"He got up, very impaired and didn't speak a word. We took him outside and he still didn't say anything. We didn't know if he was scared or drugged. He wasn't able to identify us as police officers. We called for help and he was taken straight to hospital. It's difficult to believe he was in that place for 20 years. It's a very insanitary place, he wouldn't have survived. There's no light at all."
Neighbours in the Guarulhos district of Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil, recalled how Armando was a normal 16-year-old, who liked skateboarding and playing the guitar, when he suddenly disappeared.
Never seen again by his friends, Armando's family always claimed he had moved to another part of Brazil and was "doing well".
One neighbour, Aparecido Rocha Brasil, said he believed the teenager's father and step-mother decided to lock him in the room after he started experimenting with alcohol.
Armando's father Amancio de Andrade denied the allegations, claiming that his son left home aged 18 and returned last week, and asked him to lock him in the room as he wanted to get clean from drug addiction.
Armando is being cared for in the psychiatric ward a local hospital, where he is reportedly to traumatised to speak.
A video of a friend talking with him shows the man only able to nod or shake his head to respond to questions.
Police have launched an investigation while Armando's father and step-mother, who have not yet been arrested, have reportedly fled their home following aggression from angry neighbours.
The corpse of a tricycle operator, identified as Mr. Sule Muhammed, was on Friday found in an uncompleted building in the Okpuno area of Awka, Anambra State. Muhammed was axed on the head and other parts of his body.His tricycle was dumped around the uncompleted building.
A native of Kogi State, Muhammed was declared missing by his wife and elder brother after he failed to return home on Thursday night. Subsequently, the police were informed about the situation.
His body was found on Friday evening by a team of policemen and some indigenes of Kogi State resident in Anambra. Speaking with Punch, Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Nkeiruka Nwode, confirmed the incident.
She said, �Our men have moved the body to the morgue for autopsy, and I can assure you that it won�t be long before we get his killers.�
Nwode said an axe, suspected to have been used in killing the deceased was found close to his body.
Some respondents said the victim might have been killed by cultists.
�This Okpuno area of Awka is full of cult members, especially student cult members�, a source who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated
Facebook user Bello Anny Lawrence narrates the incident as thus: "These Pastor BY Name Clifford Ojugo of Reedeem Christian Church of God,Peace House Area Idimu,Lagos did this to an orphan who lived with him because she lied about a Minor Issue according to him..He lives in No 9 Babatope Babatope Close Igando..The Orphan who is now out of his house and is now accommodated by another Good Family Cries For Justice.. Pls Share until it gets to the General overseer. These Man does not deserve to pastor a church."
A Georgia teenager has survived a life-threatening head injury on the soccer pitch that put him in a coma � and when he woke up, he was only speaking fluent Spanish.
Via DailyMail.com
A high school goalie, who is still suffering from a third concussion that nearly killed him, woke up from a coma speaking fluent Spanish.
Rueben Nsemoh was playing soccer last month for an elite Gwinnett County national team when he dived for the ball and another player kicked him in the head, WSB TV reported.
The Georgia teen was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center, where he spent several days in a coma.
When he finally woke up, his mother, Dorah Nsemoh, told WSB-TV that her son was speaking fluent Spanish, something he's never done before. He's still unable to go to school and his family is devastated as it isn't known how much damage has been done.
'Our life has changed through this process,' his mother told the station.
His soccer coach, Bruno Kalonji, told WSB-TV that Rueben stopped breathing several times at the time of the incident. Kalonji said he was in 'shock and panic', adding that Rueben would fade in and out of consciousness and 'he'd start throwing up'.
'You thought you'd might lose him. I thought I might lose him there,' Kalonji said.
Rueben told the station: 'Sometimes I daze out. Sometimes I feel like I'm not there, but I am.'
Upon his return to the game, his coach wants him and other goalkeepers to wear a helmet.
'We should try to prevent these things from happening earlier,' Kalonji said.
Rueben's medical bills have peaked at $200,000, but a GoFundMe account has been set up to help the family offset the cost.
The account, which was set up by friends, says that 'Reuben's seizures have not stopped'.
The passionate soccer player hopes to play professionally one day, but for now he'll continue to stay at home and heal.
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Abia State Police Command, Adeleye Oyebade, on Monday paraded a suspected rapist, identified as Emeka Asibiriobwu, who was accused of defiling a two-year-old girl kept under his care.
Oyebade said the suspect was arrested by the officers of the Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Umuahia, the state capital.
He said the suspect, who was still being investigated by policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, had raped the girl at Oriendu, a suburb of the state capital.
The police boss said, �The suspect was arrested when the mother of the victim raised the alarm on sighting her daughter crying, while blood and fluid were gushing out of her private parts. The victim was taken to a hospital where the rape case was established. The suspect has confessed to the crime and will be arraigned in court after the conclusion of police investigation.�
Speaking with Punch Metro, the suspect, who could not state his age, however, denied raping the victim. He claimed that the mother of the victim did not keep her daughter under his care on the day the incident took place.
He said, �My neighbour just accused me of raping her daughter; but I didn�t do it. I have told everyone in our community that I have no hands in the ugly incident.�
The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, has arrested three workers of Peakins Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Lagos, for allegedly stealing drugs estimated at N56m.
The suspects are Emmanuel Okechukwu, Ikechukwu Orji and Chisom Azubuke. Two others, who were estate security guards, Uchechukwu Ofoepeka and Goddy Ogobi, were named as accomplices.
Punch Metro reports that the owner of the company, Isaac Ugwu, had caught one of the workers, Okechukwu, with a carton of a drug valued at N400,000. The suspect was allegedly taking it away from the company�s warehouse on Plot C, Mobolaji Johnson Estate, Lekki, Lagos, when he was caught.
Ugwu was said to have reported the matter at the zone 2 command through a petition to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Abdulmajid Ali. The case was subsequently transferred to the anti-kidnapping unit of the command.
In the course of investigation, Okechukwu mentioned the names of the other workers and estate guards as accomplices.
The zone 2 command spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the confession led to the arrest of the other suspects.
He said, �Upon interrogation, all the suspects confessed to the crime and revealed that the nefarious act had been going on since May 2016. It was discovered that about 102 cartons of LORNAT DS tablets, valued at N39.7m; 200 cartons of FUNBACT �A� valued at about N16m; and five cartons of PAALAXIN tablets valued at N200,000, totalling about N55,980,000 had been stolen from the company.�
Adejobi, a Superintendent of Police, said the suspects had been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate�s Court on two counts of conspiracy and stealing, contrary to sections 409 and 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Sola Adeoye, admitted them to bail in the sum of N1m with two sureties each in like sum.
The AIG, Ali, while condemning the crime, urged industrialists, businessmen and women to carry out security checks on intending employees.
A suspected robbery gang has unleashed terror on security guards in Otumara/Ilaje community, in the Costain area of Lagos State, for allegedly preventing them from robbing residents of the community.
The suspected robbery gang members were reportedly armed with cutlasses and knives, among other weapons, and were allegedly led by one Solomon.
Punch Metro reports that that they attacked and injured the guards around 9pm on Friday at a security post in the neighbourhood. One of the guards, who escaped from the scene, called for reinforcement and the chief security officer of the community and other guards moved to the area.
The assailants reportedly took to their heels, but the gang leader, Solomon, was arrested and handed over to the police at the Iponri division.
A resident of the area, who identified himself simply as Rasaq, said the security of the community had recently been beefed up to forestall robbery attacks. He said the attackers were suspected robbers, whose operations had been frustrated by the security guards manning the neighbourhood.
He said, �For some months now, we have not witnessed any robbery attack on the community; thanks to the effectiveness of the security guards. They have intensified surveillance at every nook and cranny of this community, which makes us to live peacefully.
�However, on Friday, some robbers attacked the guards at their base and injured some of them. The grouse of those miscreants was that they had been deprived of their illegal means of livelihood � robbing people and breaking shops.�
One of the security guards, who did not want his name in print, said that his injured colleagues had reportedly been discharged from a hospital he was rushed to.
�We are working with the police to get other members of the gang arrested,� he added.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP, Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the attack.
She said, �One Agekameh Patrick, the CSO of Otumara/Ilaje reported that while on routine patrol of the community at about 9pm on Friday. He accosted a suspected armed robber, Solomon, a well known criminal. The suspect and his gang members were armed with knives and other weapons and attacked some security men in the community. But they were overpowered. The case is still under investigation.�
A mobile phone software marketer, who specialises in downloading applications on mobile sets, has been reportedly found dead in a hotel room in Ovwian, Udu Council area of Delta State after allegedly demanding sex from a female customer who could not pay for the service he rendered to her. The deceased identified as Nelson Eni Millz operating at a popular Robinson Plaza along Deco road in Warri South was said to have demanded that the female customer �pays in kind� since she could not pay the entire fee.
Southern City News gathered that the incident happened last week Thursday at Treasure Land Hotel in Ovwian where the victim had lodged with the supposed lover identified as Helen Obiogu.
Conflicting reports had it that the victim (Nelson) slumped and died while having rounds of sex with Helen, but another account had it that he died from poisoning.
A source at the popular Robinson Plaza, where the lady suspect had gone to purchase the mobile phone told our correspondent that Helen was at the phone plaza last week Wednesday to buy a handset and to download music and applications, but was left with N5,000 after buying the phone.
It was gathered that Helen, who is now in police custody, pleaded with the late Nelson to let her go and come back another day to complete the payment but he had refused and insisted she met him in a hotel.
A source alleged Helen eventually went to the hotel and Nelson sent her to buy drinks for them. The source also alleged Helen could have poisoned Nelson�s drink which eventually led to his death.
Nelson, in his late 20s, left behind two kids.
When Southern City News discreetly visited the hotel as a lodger, staff and sympathizers were seen discussing the unfortunate incident.
A staff at Treasure Land Hotel told our correspondent that the lady suspect had almost fled from the hotel when she was arrested by the hotel security guards on duty.
The security guards had noticed that she was crying and was in a haste to leave the premises in the early hours of last week Thursday.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Celestina Kalu, confirmed the development to our correspondent when contacted.
Kalu, in an additional message to our correspondent, said, �It was a sudden and unnatural death. Be informed that on 13/10/2016 at about 15.30 hours, one Gordon Tone (the manager) of Treasure Land Hotel, reported that one Nelson (male) surname unknown, lodged in his hotel along with his female friend by name Helen Obiogu of Ovwian Town.
�The said Nelson was found dead in his hotel room by 14.55hours. We visited the scene of crime and no mark of violence seen. The corpse has been removed and deposited at Noble Hospital mortuary for autopsy and the said female friend, Helen Obiogu of Ovwian town, has been arrested and detained.�
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS of the Lagos State Police Command, weekend, rescued a 15-year-old girl, who was allegedly abducted and turned into a sex slave by a tricycle operator in Agege area of Lagos.
Arrested alongside the suspect, identified as Dada Azeez, 28, was an alleged accomplice, Wasiu Agunbiade, in whose apartment the teenager was initially kept.
The rescued teenager (names withheld), had N58,000 on her when she was abducted on October 5. The money belonged to her aunt, Mrs Gbemisola. She was, however, trailed to a one-room apartment at 7, Oseni Street, Danjuma Cinema area of Agege.
The abduction saga took another twist after the suspect, Azeez, 28, claimed that the teenager was his girlfriend. He told the operatives that he had been in a clandestine relationship with the teenager since last year, claiming he abducted her because her aunt was against the relationship.
According to Azeez, �we started having a secret affair about a year ago. But her sister frowned at our relationship when she got to know. I bought her a phone through which we communicated, and instructed her to keep it away from her aunty.
�Whenever she intended to visit me, she would call and I would describe our meeting place for her. Then I thought it would be better for her to elope with me and started working on her psyche by buying her gifts to lure her into accepting to move in with me.
�The day I made up my mind to abduct her coincided with the day she was sent on an errand. I did not know she was with such an amount of money. I only wanted to take her far away from her guardian for not supporting our relationship.�
Her story The teenager alleged that she was used as a sex machine during her stay in Azeez�s hideout, saying she agreed to elope with him out of ignorance.
According to her, �he forcefully had sex with me on the first day of my arrival and since then, he had been having sex with me without wearing condom. He slept with me anywhere, including at his friends� place where he hid me for weeks.
�I succumbed to him because I could not go back home. He collected the N58,000, which was a thrift contribution I was going to give to the owner. He fed me three times a day with the money.�
I didn�t know she was abducted Accomplice On his part, the alleged accomplice, Agunbiade, admitted that the teenager was kept in his apartment for just a night, claiming he never knew she was abducted.
He said: �If I had known she was abducted, I would have advised him to return her to the parents. I never believed he could commit such crime.
�He begged me to accommodate them for one night in my room. They left my place the following day to somewhere else. I regretted allowing them to pass the night in my place.�
Confirming the incident, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmus, said the suspects and the rescued girl had been transferred to the Agege Divisional Police, where the case was initially reported, before the RRS took it up. She warned parents and guardians against exposing their wards and children to social vices in their environment.
The corpse pictured inset is that of a woman who was kidnapped by her driver and some of his friends. They collected a huge ransom from her family - but still went ahead to rape and kill her.
Matter of fact, they didn't kill her immediately. They tied her legs/hands, and gagged her while raping her. After which they dug a deep pit and dumped her inside alive. She suffocated to death.
The woman is reportedly the owner of Chelsea International School - one of the biggest Schools in Abuja.
A serial rapist has killed a pregnant woman and injured four others in Oluwoye, Ibeshe Titun, Ikorodu. Those injured include the deceased�s husband, their two children and a neighbour.
The savage incident happened around 1am today (Friday Oct. 21). The victims were savagly pummeled with a local grinding stone.
Tears flowed freely as sympathisers wept uncontrollably, on Tuesday, when they saw mangled bodies of a mother and her twin children after they were crushed by a truck at the popular Oja Oba market in Ibadan South East local council area of Oyo State.
The truck marked AGL883XQ lost control after it had brake failure. When the dust finally settled, it left in its wake blood, broken bones and attendant sorrow. Though, the police confirmed the death of four people, eye witnesses said those who were crushed by the truck could not be less than 12.
Among those, who met sudden death was an engineer with the Ibadan Properties, Mr. Monsur Ajedayo, who was crushed while waiting for a taxi by the roadside. Also, some traders, who refused to heed the warning of Governor Abiola Ajimobi to stop roadside trading were among the victims. A relative of Ajedayo, explained that his late cousin had alighted from the car of one of his bosses and was waiting for a taxi when he met his untimely death.
�The boss was going somewhere so he dropped him at Mapo. He walked down to Oja Oba to take a taxi when he was crushed by the truck,� he said.
Apart from losing many people in the accident, the truck, from which bags of cement were off loaded at Beere area, also ran into waiting tricycles and commercial cars.
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) officials rushed to the scene to rescue survivors. Remains of the dead were taken to the mortuary at Adeoyo Hospital, while the injured were taken to the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
An eye witness, Alhaja Aminat said: �The incident happened at 7.45am on Tuesday. As I was about to enter my shop here, I heard people shouting. I first of all ran for my life. Later, I noticed that a driver of a truck was trying to put the truck to rest but he could not do that without running into some vehicles parked along the road.
"About seven Micra cabs fully loaded with passengers and six tricycles with passengers were crushed along its way as the driver was swerving along the road to find a way to stop. The woman, with her twin children, were standing beside the road waiting for Okada (commercial motorcycles) to convey them to school when the truck ran over them,� the trader narrated.
Describing the incident as unfortunate, Alhaji Adeyemi Ajimati said: �The truck driver, who has killed the innocent souls has escaped. But for the intervention of the security operatives, some irate sympathisers could have caused more havoc if they had set the lorry on fire. But we thank God that it happened this early period of the day when many traders had not set their wares beside the road. Many more could have been crushed to death.�
One of those, who escaped being killed by the truck, Fola Omidiran, said: �The truck skidded off the road suddenly as it descended the slope, killing a woman and her two children immediately. It also injured many others. From what we heard, the articulated truck had a brake failure. Five tricycles were also crushed in the accident; one of them even caught fire while occupants sustained injuries.�
The South West caretaker chairman, Alhaji Rauf Folarin, who visited the scene of the accident thanked God that the road had not been as busy as it used to be when the accident occurred, noting that the casualties recorded would have been more.
An accident involving a Dangote cement truck and a a sedan car, occurred at the Lagos - Ibadan express road this week. The truck rammed into the car, crushing all the occupants to death.
Rebecca Ishaku, one of the 57 girls that escaped Boko Haram captivity when they were taken away from their school in April 2014 - is pictured dancing and jumping with excitement as she watched her classmates reuniting with their families after two years of abduction.
In the heartwarming footage, Rebecca can be heard screaming in excitement 'see them, see them" - as she danced while pointing towards the TV showing the released Chibok girls at their Thanksgiving service on Sunday, Oct 16.
Rebecca was among the 270 students abducted by Boko Haram militants in 2014. But she managed to escape in the hours following the mass kidnapping when she jumped off a truck.
A bloody communal cult clash broke out between different groups in Lagos Island, on Sunday, Oct 16, 2016.
The violent fight started after a popular masquerade known as Adakeja, was prevented from parading the street by some youths in the area.
The young man who ended up getting killed lived around Atiko road. He was attacked and bludgeoned to death by a rival group at Odunfa street. A handful of angry men were seen in a video, battering the unnamed victim with machetes, stones and other metal object - until he died.
