I’m in my early 60s, a few years ago, I took in a girl as a maid. Her family wouldn’t help her because they thought she was wayward. In the beginning, she was unstable and kept vanishing, at first for days, then for weeks. She would come back, weeping and begging us to take her back and I always relented because I thought I could do something good with her potentials. My husband called me a fool and threatened to throw her out if she didn’t behave.

A female suicide bomber, who was arrested by the vigilante group also known as civilian JTF, revealed, yesterday, that 50 other female suicide bombers have been let loose in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital with a mandate to kill 100,000 persons before the end of December 2014.

Sports minister, Dr. Tammy Danagogo has paid coach Stephen Keshi for the past two months.

Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday, warned of dire consequences if Federal Government decided to retrench workers under the guise of austerity measures announced last month.

In a statement by its President and Secretary-General, Bobboi Bala Kaigama and Alade Bashir Lawal, the union said any attempt by government to sack workers or reduce their salaries in the name of austerity measures would amount to a declaration of war on Nigerian workers and would be resisted by the labour movement

The Supervising Minister of Health, Dr. Khaliru Alhassan, will be among top government functionaries, diplomats, development partners and private sector chieftains that will be at the formal departure ceremony of 250 Nigerian volunteers in Lagos today.

Two persons, Sakiru Ibrahim, 19, and Saheed Folarin, have been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for stealing one Toshiba Laptop valued at N40,000.

Operatives of the Sector 1, anti-illegal oil bunkering of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Operation Pulo Shield, Bayelsa State, yesterday, said it had destroyed 23 illegal refinery camps and arrested 10 suspects for illegal oil bunkering activities.

A couple were knocked down and killed by a drunken driver of a Toyota Camry car in Ode Irele, Irele Local Government Area of Ondo State.

AYO (as he was fondly called by his colleagues) worked with one of the Flour Mills located in the heart of Apapa before his death in a recent boat accident. The deceased worked with the defunct Ideal Flour Mills before the company retrenched him. He used his entitlements to build a low-cost house in Ikorodu where he lived with his wife and children.

The Lagos State Police Command has sealed a house in Isheri Oshun area of Lagos State, where kidnappers allegedly keep their victims until a ransom was paid.

Twelve Ghanaian fishermen were, yesterday, arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, over alleged vandalism and theft of petroleum products.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned hearing till January 7, 2015 in the suit by a human rights group, Alliance Against Monopoly, AAM, against Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, over its recent directive to cement manufacturers on industry standard.

THE Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, Senator Oluremi Tinubu will host this year’s edition of the Elderly Citizens Assistance Scheme, ECAS, at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Victoria Island, Lagos.

LEADERS of the Okrika community in Lagos have thrown their weight behind the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 to deepen his transformation agenda.

Two soldiers, allegedly on illegal duty, have been arrested by the Elemoro Police Division in Oko-Olomi Village in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State.