{"id":141337,"date":"2024-12-04T23:05:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police"},"modified":"2024-12-05T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:19:10","slug":"hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police","title":{"rendered":"Hookup responsible for high rate of missing girls \u2013 Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Public Relations Officer for the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola has attributed the high rate of missing girls and ritual killings involving females in the state to \u201chookups\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hookup is a slang used to describe brief, casual, transactional sexual relations between individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Morning Brief on Wednesday, Odutola described the hookup culture as a serious issue affecting young girls, linking it to the rise in cases of missing girls and female victims of ritual killings in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we have lots of reports of missing persons. By the time we start an investigation, not less than 10 young girls and ladies go missing daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn-depth investigations also reveal that those cases are not by accidents. Most of them are connected to hookup channels and apps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey fall victim to strangers who causally invite them to unknown places, and eventually fall victim to being used for ritual purposes,\u201d said Odutola.<\/p>\n<p>The PPRO emphasized that Ogun State has a troubling history with these cases.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the Ogun Police Command reported the disappearance of 18-year-old Testimony John, who went missing after being sent on an errand to Saabo Market in Sagamu.<\/p>\n<p>Just a month earlier, in September, police had launched a manhunt for the murderers of Habibat Akinsanya, a 17-year-old secondary school student who was abducted and killed in the state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Public Relations Officer for the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola has attributed the high rate of missing girls and ritual killings involving females in the state to \u201chookups\u201d. Hookup is a slang used to describe brief, casual, transactional sexual relations between individuals. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Morning Brief on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":141336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[254,165],"class_list":["post-141337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hookup responsible for high rate of missing girls \u2013 Police - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Public Relations Officer for the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola has attributed the high rate of missing ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hookup responsible for high rate of missing girls \u2013 Police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Public Relations Officer for the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola has attributed the high rate of missing ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-12-04T22:05:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-04T23:19:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1733341734.630961.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"977\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"542\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Hookup responsible for high rate of missing girls \u2013 Police\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-12-04T22:05:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-04T23:19:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police\"},\"wordCount\":246,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1733341734.630961.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hookup-responsible-for-high-rate-of-missing-girls-police\",\"name\":\"Hookup responsible for high rate of missing girls \u2013 Police - 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