There was a time when traditional storytelling was an essential part of family life. Then, the family storyteller would sit on a stool slightly elevated from the mat on which the story-hearers sit.

Mr. Baruwa and especially the girl he allegedly raped deserve to be pitied because they might be, in different ways, victims of warped psychology and epistemology of sex from childhood which tend to obstruct cultivation of healthy sexual relationships between man and woman devoid of the mumbo-jumbo of religious superstition. Thus, there should be a paradigm-shift away from narrow-minded and obscurantist attitude towards sex to a more open, rational-scientific understanding of sexuality.

The governor of Kogi State and the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the November 21 election in the state, Idris Ichalla Wada, has accused the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele of working in collaboration with the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Abubakar Audu, to frustrate the bailout package for the state, thereby, compounding the woes of workers and pensioners in Kogi for political gains. He disclosed this in an interview, in his office in Lokoja, the state capital.

Lagos State government, yesterday, declared zero tolerance for environmental nuisance in the state, even as it shut Marina Workers Mosque, Lagos Island over poor sewage management.

The police in Abia State have foiled an attempt to steal a two-week-old baby in Amaede village, Isiala Ngwa South local government area of the state.