The missing National Youth Service Corps member and lawyer, Linda Eunice Ameh, has been found unharmed days after she was declared missing in Abuja, bringing relief to her family, colleagues and members of the legal community who had expressed growing concern over her whereabouts.
Sources familiar with the matter confirmed the development to SaharaReporters on Sunday morning, stating that the lawyer was found safe after days of uncertainty surrounding her disappearance.
She was last seen on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, before she was eventually found on Sunday, May 10, 2026.
“Eunice has been found unharmed this morning (Sunday),” a family source disclosed.
As of the time of filing this report, the circumstances surrounding how she was found, where she was located, and the events leading to her disappearance had not yet been made public.
The development came barely hours after the Nigerian Bar Association publicly demanded her immediate release and urged security agencies to intensify efforts to secure her safe return.
In a statement issued on the night of Saturday, May 9, 2026, and titled “Release Eunice Ameh Now!”, the President of the association, Afam Osigwe, described her disappearance as one that had deeply affected the entire legal profession.
“When a young lawyer goes missing, the pain is not distant to the Nigerian Bar Association, it is personal,” the statement read.
“We are more than a professional body; we are a community bound by shared sacrifice, shared dreams, and a collective duty to stand for one another.”
The NBA noted that Ameh, who was serving in the Federal Capital Territory under the NYSC scheme, disappeared under troubling circumstances after work, raising anxiety among colleagues, friends and relatives.
“No young Nigerian who answered the call to national service should disappear without an immediate, coordinated, and determined response from our security agencies,” the association added.
The body also called on the Inspector General of Police to “urgently deploy all necessary tactical and intelligence resources toward securing Eunice’s safe release and ensuring that anyone connected to her disappearance is swiftly brought to justice.”
Before her discovery, Ameh’s disappearance had sparked widespread concern after she reportedly failed to return home from work in Abuja.
Family sources disclosed that the corps member recently began working as a Sales Manager with Blades and Butchers Ltd, a company located on Lake Chad Crescent in Maitama, Abuja.
According to the family, she had resumed work with the company barely two weeks before she went missing and was also preparing to complete her NYSC programme.
“She works at Lake Chad Crescent with the company Blades and Butchers in Maitama. She is the Sales Manager for the company and she just started two weeks ago,” a source told SaharaReporters last Friday.
The source explained that Ameh was last seen at about 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6, while heading home after work toward the junction leading to Life Camp, where she resides in a corps members’ lodge.
The matter was subsequently reported to the police through the Maitama Police Division, while the NYSC authorities were also informed of the development.
Before she was found, family members had described the situation as traumatic and emotionally devastating.
“The family is distraught and in panic while they are hanging on to hopes of a police investigation getting her whereabouts,” a source had said.
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