The story said eight secondary school students, five boys and three girls, aged between 14 and 16, were arrested for being cult members. According to one of the girls, a 15-year-old, the leader of the cult, Sergeant, had sex with the three girls in his house before making incisions in their hands to draw their blood “and told us that we had joined his group.’’ Just like that. I doubt if sex was part of the initiation; the young man just wanted free sex with multiple partners simultaneously and “caught the three girls mugu.” This brings to fore the importance of teaching our daughters sex education and self-worth. A girl with self-worth does not surrender her body cheaply the way these three girls did.

Let me start with a personal story. At a point in my life, I ignored the church like many youths in their 20s still do. It’s the rebel in us that wants to break away from the sermons and doctrines that we have been force-fed with in childhood and adolescence especially those who have attended mission schools. I opted for squash, Sunday luncheons, social visits, movies or simply to sleep off Saturday night hang overs. It didn’t help that I was in a profession that did not see Sunday as a hallowed day. But habits and characters formed in childhood are difficult to completely shake off and the lure of the church became stronger as I grew older.

Stephanie’s life had seemed perfect. She had a wonderful husband, Donald, and three beautiful kids. They shared a happy life together. This included camping holidays with her best friend from childhood, Nancy and her husband and kids.

THE Senate has begun investigation into the allocation of plots in Maitama Hill in the nation’s capital territory to former President Goodluck Jonathan, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison- Madueke and other top government functionaries in the last dispensation. Chairman of the Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Dino Melaye, yesterday, disclosed that the Senate has put a stop to any development in the area, which he said had been reserved as green area.

In 2011, after the decomposing body of a Lagos-based wealthy business man, Chief Uzodike (not real name), who was earlier abducted in Festac town was mysteriously discovered in a far-away remote village, close to his home town in Anambra state, nobody envisaged that it would be a veritable signal to an emerging dastardly trend in kidnapping that would later envelope and threaten the area in Lagos.

For the hard hit Ijaw of Delta state, the scare of another military invasion of some of their communities, particularly Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West council, remains a big worry in the atmosphere of the tension being generated by Ex-Militant leader, Govenrment Ekpemukpolo (Tompolo), EFCC face off. While that storm is still unsettled, the declaration for closure of the NIMASA Maritime University, Okerenkoko has deepened their frustrations.

I live in a face-to face apartment in a crowded compound. People don’t seem to mind their business here. I cannot have privacy even though I live in two rooms. It seems the thin walls in my apartment make it tough for me and my boyfriend to be intimate, during conversations, during sex, without the neighbours reacting. If I’m on the phone and tell him how I feel about him, the couple next door starts to crack up. I thought at first it was a coincidence, but it has happened about eight times. Once I even said, “let’s talk later because the neighbors are listening” and they shut right up.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have clashed over Wall Street and foreign policy, in the Democratic presidential candidates’ first one-on-one debate.

The Lagos State Government on Friday inaugurated the Special Offences (Mobile) Court to summarily deal with growing cases of traffic and environmental abuses in the state with the view to bring sanity and civility in the conduct of residents.

Government of Ghana signed a PPP contract to reengineer business registration processes, deploy state-of-the-art application software and hardware, and employ best-in-class solutions for the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Registrar General’s Office.