•Actor Praise The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old actor identified as Praise for an alleged abduction and defilement of a 14-year-old girl. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement today. The statement partly reads, “The Divisional Police Officer of Mowe Division has ...
A 63-year-old influential Ghanaian traditional priest has sparked outrage by marrying a 12-year-old girl. Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII married her in a customary ceremony held on Saturday. However, the marriage has sparked criticism, with community leaders saying people do not understand their customs and traditions. Videos and photos of ...
When William Wilberforce and other abolitionists achieved their aim of ending slavery, little did they know that this act of man’s inhumanity to man would continue in other forms, long after they had departed this world. Similarly, in the early 60s, Herbert Marshall McLuhan, a globally-acclaimed scholar of media studies posited that the world ...
•FRSC operatives Homicide detectives from the Lagos State Police Command have taken into custody the driver of a Toyota Camry for allegedly running over a 5-year-old girl while reversing his car in the Ijaye Ojokoro area of the state. The victim identified as Fatima was confirmed dead in a hospital where she was rushed to, […]
•Abandoned child A one-year-old girl has been accused of witchcraft and was abandoned inside the bush in Akwa Ibom. Anja Ringgren Loven, a helper from Denmark, wrote it on Facebook yesterday, Thursday, March 28. She said the little girl was very sick when they found her. After getting a call for help, Anja’s team quickly […]
Operatives of a neighbourhood security outfit, Oluyole Security Network have arrested a bricklayer and an operator of a commercial motorcycle otherwise called okada for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old teenager in Ibadan, Oyo. One of the suspects, Sodeeq Ojediran, admitted forcibly sleeping with the girl. According to report, th...
•Knife A 12-year-old girl simply identified as Wumi has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her 54-year-old adopted mother to death. The decomposing body of her mother, Florence Adelayi, was found inside her residence at Premier Estate, Okunbadejo Street along Oda Road in Akure, reports The Nation. She was believed to have been locked inside ...
•Scene of the fire incident It was a black Sunday in Lagos as gas exploded, injuring seven family members at 1, Odubanwo Streer, Off Olaniyi Street, Gbinrinmi in Ojokoro Local Council Development Area (LCDA). The same day, a fire outbreak at a multiple purpose sawmill market located at Awori but stop behind GTB Bank, Abule […]
•Aisha Achimugu The FCT-Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) on Saturday reminded an Abuja socialite, Mrs Aisha Achimugu to fulfil her tax obligations. FCT-IRS posted on its social media X handle that it wished the socialite warmest birthday as she lavishly celebrated her 50th birthday setting the Caribbean state of Grenada agog in a seven-day b...
•Late Folorunsho Ariyo. Kidnappers have reportedly killed three of eleven residents of the Sagwari Estate Layout in the Dutsen-Alhaji area of the Federal Capital Territory, including a 13-year-old secondary school student identified as Folorunsho Ariyo. Kidnappers had invaded the Sagwari community on Sunday, January 7, at about 7:30 pm, and ki...