The developments emerged from two separate kidnapping incidents involving prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members travelling to orientation camps in the South-East and South-South, and farmers abducted from their fields in Niger State.

Veteran Nollywood actor and theatre icon, Oludotun Baiyewun Jacobs, popularly known as Olu Jacobs, is being given his final farewell in Lagos, with his widow, actress Joke Silva, their sons and prominent figures from politics, entertainment and public life gathered for his funeral Mass.