•Accident scene 12 persons were burnt to death yesterday afternoon at the Malo axis of Ogere, Ogun State, on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway. The Federal Road Safety Corps Public Education Officer, Florence Okpe, in a statement, said the accident involved a White Mazda bus with registration number DDA733XA. It was learnt that 16 persons comprising...
•Protesters in Abuja Officers of the Nigeria Police stationed at the Eagles Square in Abuja have dispersed protesters with canisters and pepper spray. At 10:30 am, police shot canisters after first firing warning non-lethal shots at the ground, reports The PUNCH. Following the warning shots, an angry protester confronted the police officers, h...
A 28-year-old man, Uchenna Eziekwe, and his wife, Chinenye, have been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly attempting to sell their two-year-old baby. According to the police, the couple intended to use the proceeds from the sale of the baby to relocate to Canada, where they hoped to find a better life. They […]
The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court yesterday sentenced a 27-year-old cleaner, Saviour Udoh, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl on a church premises. Justice Ramon Oshodi held that the prosecution was able to prove the offence of defilement against the convict without reasonable doubt, stating t...
•Lagos PPRO Benjamin Hundeyin The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the death of a one-year-old baby during an attack at Egan Oriomi, in the Otto Awori Local Council Development Area of Ojo, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, told our correspondent yesterday that some residents of the community wh...
This is not the best of times for sex workers, adherents of safe sex and couples who no longer desire to have children following the unprecedented rise in the cost of basic contraceptives like condoms, and oral family planning pills among others. Fears abound that the situation may escalate not the only challenge of overpopulation […]
Police in Lagos State are on a manhunt for the buyer of a baby stolen by a house help in Shomolu area of the state. Police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed today that the buyer abandoned the baby as the police dragnet was closing in, reports NAN. “In the early hours of […]
•Traffickers CHIMA AZUBUIKE writes about the arrest of an alleged child trafficking syndicate by the police in Gombe State and how the victims were sold to buyers with the connivance of government officials, reports Saturday PUNCH. I have boys as children; I only wanted to have a girl-child,” was the excuse given by Mrs Tina […]
•Police A 30-year-old woman identified as Olubunmi Ajayi, has been arrested by the operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for attempting to drown her five months old baby, Imole Anifowose, inside a river near RSS in Sagamu area of the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola […]
•Linda John For beautiful Nollywood actress, Linda John, marriage is scary and worrisome. Therefore, she’d rather stay single and have a baby for a billionaire than get tied down to a man for life. The Benue State-born thespian noted: “For this 2024, my New Year resolution is ‘no gree for anybody’. 2023 was a tough […]

