•A school bus, photo for illustration purposes only An unspecified number of school children have been reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen in Emure Local Government of Ekiti State. Though the details are still very hazy, it was learned that the abducted children were said to be students of a yet- to-be disclosed school, reports Vanguard. [&h...
•Explosion No fewer than 10 children have reportedly been injured in an explosion in Kidandan, Giwa Council Area of Kaduna State, North-West Nigeria. Witnesses say the explosion was caused by a strange object which the children were playing with it, reports Sunday Sun. The object, according to eyewitness was found in a nearby bush by […...
•Boat mishap At least 10 people, including nine children, drowned when a boat capsized Thursday in western India, officials said, with a search on to find more of the missing. The incident happened in Gujarat state as students were travelling to a picnic organised by their school, reports AFP. Dozens of people joined a frantic […]
•Fire outbreak A tragedy struck in the early hours of today when seven members of the same family lost their lives to an outbreak of fire that occurred in Tudun Wada, Nassarawa Local Government area of Kano State. An eyewitness who disclosed this while speaking to the press, said that the incident occurred as a […]
•Kidnapped Akwa Ibom NYSC members Distraught parents of seven Akwa Ibom prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members kidnapped in Zamfara State are losing hope on the fate of their children still in kidnappers’ den over four months after they were abducted. Recall that on August 17 2023, an 11-seater Akwa Ibom State Transport Compan...
•Boat mishap Pastor Promise Festus, a father residing in Ngo Town within the Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, has expressed distress, revealing that his five children were among the casualties of the boat accident along the Andoni-Bonny waterways. He described his world as shattered and appealed to the state governor, Siminalayi F...
A woman, Christianah, has told a Makurdi Upper Area Court in Niger State that her mother-in-law asked her to poison her step children. Christianah who brought a divorce suit against her husband, Linus stated that their relationship had broken down irretrievably. The petitioner pleaded for the custody of their children. “I met Linus in 2010 [&h...
•Police The Kano State Police Command has arrested nine suspects who specialised in interstate trafficking, abduction, buying and selling of minors. The state Commissioner of Police, Usaini Gumel, disclosed this while parading the suspects at the Bompai command’s headquarters today. He explained that the suspects were apprehended after conduct...
•PPRO Omolola Odutola A suspected kidnapper and child trafficker, Tayo Adeleke, had confessed to the Ogun State Police Command how he and other members of his gang had been kidnapping children to sell in neighbouring Benin Republic. Adeleke is currently in the police net, where he is being interrogated over an attempt he made with […]
•Victims’ residence It was a sad moment last Saturday evening as three tenants in Umuahia realised that four of their children had allegedly been taken away by their new neighbour who just packed in three days earlier. The tenants, all women, were Madam Ngozi Kingsley from Okon Ohafia Ohafia LGA, Madam Ifeanyi Uduma of Okon […]
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