•Late Hajia Dada Hajia Dada, mother of former president of Nigeria, late Umaru Musa Yar’adua, is dead. She reportedly died at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina yesterday after a brief illness. She was aged 102. Dada was also the mother of late Shehu Musa Yar’adua and Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar’adua, the current Chairman, Senate Committee ...
•Protesters in Abuja Officers of the Nigeria Police stationed at the Eagles Square in Abuja have dispersed protesters with canisters and pepper spray. At 10:30 am, police shot canisters after first firing warning non-lethal shots at the ground, reports The PUNCH. Following the warning shots, an angry protester confronted the police officers, h...
•Rarara and mother Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Kano have arrested one of the masterminds behind the kidnap of the mother of ace political singer, Dauda Kahutu Rarara. It was gathered that the operatives also killed one suspect in a covert operation, reports Daily Trust. According to a highly placed source […]...
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 ...
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