A 16-year-old girl (name withheld) who was allegedly gang-raped by three private guards, one of whom was attached to a church in Amumara, in Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, is yet to overcome the psychological and emotional trauma, seven months after, as the traumatic experience has left her feeling vulnerable, scared, an...
•Gas explosion A 40-year-old woman named Rafiat Sheriff and her seven-year-old daughter, Asisat Sheriff, were killed in a gas explosion at their home on Church Street, along Èbúté Road, in the Ibafo area of Ogun State. It was learnt that the incident, which occurred at about 8:30 pm on Saturday, left two other persons with […]
A woman residing in Okenne, Kogi State, has cried out that her 32-year-old daughter, Hamidat Abdulrafiu, who left home to meet a customer at Lokoja, the Kogi State, on June 18, 2024, has been missing. Hamidat’s mother, Mrs Ramot Yakubu disclosed this to our correspondent, adding that her daughter’s number has not been reachable since […...
•Singer Dauda Kahutu Rarara and mother, Hauwa’u Adamu The Police Command in Katsina State has confirmed the kidnapping of a 75-year-old, Hauwa’u Adamu, mother of the renowned Hausa singer, “Dauda Kahutu Rarara”. A statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, said the elderly mother was kidnapped at her residence in Kahut...
•Late Pele Celeste Arantes, the mother of Brazilian football legend Pele, has died aged 101, outliving her famous son by 18 months, the family announced yesterday. Arantes was 17 when she gave birth to her first child on October 23, 1940, a baby who would grow up to be the man widely considered the greatest […]
•A well A 24-year-old girl, Sophia Nkwor, has reportedly dumped and drowned her one-year old son in a well at Araya community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State. Sophia Nkwor was paraded alongside suspects of various other crimes by the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abaniwonda Olufemi at the State Command’s headquarters, Asaba...
•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 ...
•Commuters queue to board the BRT buses A driver of Bus Rapid Transit also known as BRT, identified as Sunday Bukola allegedly ran over a 35-year-old woman, Rofiat and her two sons at the Palmgroove area of Lagos at the weekend. The driver reportedly took to his heel after the incident for fear of being […]
•Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny The body of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed to his mother, more than a week after he died in an Arctic prison colony, his spokesperson said yesterday. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic, died on February 16 in one of Russia’s toughest prisons in [&h...
•Photographs showing late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said today. Lyudmila Navalnaya has travelled to the remote IK-3 prison where her son […]

