Missing National Youth Service Corps member and lawyer, Eunice Ameh, has been found unharmed days after she was declared missing in Abuja.
The development has brought relief to her family, colleagues, friends and members of the legal community, who had become increasingly worried over her whereabouts.
A family source confirmed on Sunday morning that Ameh was found safe after days of uncertainty.
“Eunice has been found unharmed this morning,” the source said.
Ameh, who is a young legal practitioner serving in the Federal Capital Territory under the NYSC scheme, was last seen on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, before she was eventually found on Sunday, May 10, 2026.
As of the time of filing this report, details of where she was found, how she was located and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance had not yet been made public.
Her disappearance had earlier raised serious concern among family members, colleagues and the Nigerian Bar Association.
The NBA had, in a statement issued on Saturday night, May 9, 2026, and titled “Release Eunice Ameh Now!”, called for urgent action to secure her safe return.
The President of the NBA, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, said the disappearance of a young lawyer was not a distant concern to the association but a personal matter for the entire legal community.
“When a young lawyer goes missing, the pain is not distant to the Nigerian Bar Association, it is personal,” the NBA said.
“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 association noted that Ameh disappeared under troubling circumstances after work, causing anxiety among her 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 NBA added.
The association had also called on the Inspector-General of Police to urgently deploy all necessary tactical and intelligence resources to secure her safe release and ensure that anyone connected to her disappearance was brought to justice.
Before she was found, family sources said Ameh had recently started work as a Sales Manager with Blades and Butchers Ltd, located on Lake Chad Crescent in Maitama, Abuja.
According to the family, she had resumed work with the company about two weeks before she went missing and was 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 had said.
The source explained that Ameh was last seen at about 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6, while heading home from work toward the junction leading to Life Camp, where she resides in a corps members’ lodge.
The matter was reported to the police through the Maitama Police Division, while NYSC authorities were also notified.
Before the news of her safe return, family members had described the situation as traumatic and emotionally distressing.
“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.
Her safe return has now brought some relief, although many questions remain unanswered about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
