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 […]
•Nigerian couple Recent studies have revealed that one in every four (25%) tested men turned out not to be the biological father of their child(ren) and ranks Nigeria as the second highest in paternity fraud. GODFREY GEORGE writes that increased DNA testing will open a can of worms in many homes, reports Saturday PUNCH. Mr […]
•School feeding programme in Osun Parents and residents of Osogbo were thrown into panic as 18 pupils from St. James Primary School B, Owo-Ope, were hospitalised due to food poisoning linked to the government’s free school feeding programme. It was gathered that pupils of the school developed complications after eating rice and egg prepared fo...
Four school children of the same parents have been declared missing in Umuahia after a tricycle rider, contracted to take them to school, took them to an unknown destination. The kids whose names were given as Mmesoma, Testimony, Godswill and Chinwotito, are the children of one Mr Chimobi Agah, a resident of Umuagu, Umuahia, reports [&helli...
Five infants among the 17 villagers abducted by bandits a month ago in Anguwar Danlele and Anguwar Bawa villages, located within the Randagi ward of the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area have died in captivity. It could be recalled that on October 7, 17 villagers, including the infants’ mothers, were taken into the bush by […]
•Palestinian firefighter stands amidst smoke after Israeli bombardment UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday warned that the bombarded Gaza Strip was becoming a “graveyard for children,” as he urged an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict. “The unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent ...
Nearly 17 years after he got married, Kolawole Olanrewaju from Ikire in Osun State says he has found out that all the four children he thought he had with his wife, Toyin Olanrewaju, belong to another man. He said a DNA test conducted on the four children aged 16, 12, 8 and 5 at DDC […]