The pain and trauma of the recent violence in Benue came into sharp focus as survivors of the Yelewata massacre shared harrowing experiences before a sombre audience. Some survivors who spoke at the News Central Town Hall held in Makurdi, yesterday, narrated how their relations and loved ones were murdered in cold blood, reports Daily [&hellip...
The mother of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist imprisoned in Egypt, has said she is willing to die on hunger strike if it means securing her son’s release. Laila Soueif, speaking from her hospital bed at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, made a desperate appeal to the UK Prime Minister to intervene directly […]...
•Leah Sharibu and her mother Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu abducted by Boko Haram in 2018, has marked her 22nd birthday in captivity, seven years after being taken from her school in Dapchi, Yobe State. Rebecca released a heartfelt video message on the occasion, expressing the overwhelming pain of their prolonged...
A distraught mother, Fijabi Oyindamola Omotayo, has taken to Facebook in tears, pleading with the public and security agencies to help find her missing son, Oladipupo Siwajuola, a student of Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State. In a live video shared on the platform, Omotayo recounted the last time she saw her son, reports The Nation....
•Mother of the missing child, Kelly Smith (R) A South African court today found a woman guilty of trafficking her six-year-old daughter, who has been missing for more than a year, in a case that has outraged the nation. The two-month trial heard statements from various witnesses that Racquel “Kelly” Smith had revealed to them […]
•Helicopter crashes into Hudson River killing all six onboard Six people including three children were killed after a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York yesterday, sparking a major water rescue operation, authorities said. The crash killed all those onboard the aircraft: the pilot and a family from Spain. Two of t...
Tragedy struck on Ifie Road in Warri South Local Government Area on Friday afternoon as a woman identified simply as Joy and one of her children were crushed to death by a fuel tanker. The deceased and her three children were said to be riding on a commercial motorcycle on their way home from school […]
One of the children of the couple who killed each other on Tuesday at the Ita Eku area of Igirigiri, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has recounted how his parents engaged in a deadly machete fight that led to their deaths. The couple’s lifeless bodies were discovered in a pool of blood on Tuesday at their residence […]
•Oba of Benin, Ewuare II The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has released the guideline of programmes for the funeral rites of his mother, Iyoba Ewuare, II, who died in 1976, which is 49 years ago. This is according to a statement signed yesterday by the Secretary, Benin Traditional Council, Frank Irabor. However, the […]
•Mohbad (center) and his mother and father Abosede, mother of the late singer Mohbad, has alleged that her son chose to keep his wedding to Omowunmi and the birth of his son private due to the threats and pressure he faced from his former label boss, Naira Marley. “My son lived in fear all his […]

