The absence of Danlami Bussa, Samson Igbadumhe and Moses Peter who allegedly killed ASP Eric Isaiah stalled their trial on Tuesday, in an FCT High Court in Kubwa, Abuja. The police charged the defendants and Ganiyu Amina who was in court with three counts bordering on culpable homicide. At the resumed trial, the prosecution counsel, […]

An FCT High Court in Kubwa, on Tuesday ordered that a 34-year-old church worker, Patrick Ekene, who allegedly defiled an eight-year-old girl. The police charged Ekene, who resides in Kubwa, Abuja, with rape. Justice Bello Kawu ordered that the defendant be remanded at an FCT correctional centre while delivering ruling on the bail application made […]

An NGO, Children Empowerment Fund, CEF, has taken a menstrual hygiene programme to the isolated Agboyi community in Ketu area of Lagos State, with over 500 girls and women reached with the message and period products.

By Sola Isola, IBADAN Olugbade, the brother of late Timothy Adegoke, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, who died at the Hilton Hotels and Resorts, has explained how he escaped a kidnap attempt on Saturday. Speaking to journalists in Ibadan, Olugbade revealed that some men in a car came to his area in […]

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday remanded a 30-year-old man, Henry Ukwueze, for allegedly defiling a 9-year-old girl. The Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Ajibade, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre. Ajibade, however, directed the police to send the case file to the […]