Even while pregnant, we were forced to sleep with clients, survivors recount sex trafficking
For seven young Nigerian women, most of whom are teenagers, the journey began with familiar faces, including friends, relatives and community members.
The canopy that became a threat: Calabar’s ornamental trees turn from beauty to danger
By Emma Una Arriving Calabar, the Cross River State capital, once meant entering a green cathedral. Now, it means dodging a death sentence. The ornamental trees lining Calabar’s roads were its proudest signature, a living archway of imported giants first introduced by Mr. Clement Ebri in the 1990s and expanded by Mr. Donald Duke in 1999. […]
From NDDC boss to monarch: Ogbuku ascends ancestral throne as Daufa VI
By Samuel Oyadongha AYAKORO — In the quiet water-fringed settlement of Ayakoro in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, where the Niger-Delta’s mangroves meet memory, they have a saying: a true leader is not announced, but recalled. The community recalled one of its own Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, the high-flying Managing Director of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), […]
19-year-old beaten to death over missing N17,000 in Nsukka
Tension has continued to mount in Amoka Village, Nru Nsukka, in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the alleged killing of a 19-year-old resident, Chiadikaobi Asadu.
Troops arrest 46 suspected undocumented foreign nationals in Ogun
Troops of the Nigerian Army, in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), have arrested 46 foreign nationals during a security operation in Ogun State.
Our father not diabetic; mother still in captivity – Late Gen Rabe’s son
One of the sons of the late Major General Rabe Abubakar (retd), Isyaka Rabe, has said his father had no history of diabetes or high blood pressure, contrary to claims attributed to the Katsina State government.
