Cross River: Ritual killings resurface ahead of 2027 elections
Observations over the last 11 years have shown that in Cross River State, cases of alleged ritual killings tend to increase as general elections draw near, with women accounting for more than 90 per cent of the reported victims. Our Correspondent, Emma Una, highlights the ugly trend in the last decade.
Abattoir faces relocation, as strayed cow kills student in Lagos
If there was one dream Adebowale Naphisat cherished so much, it was that of completing her tertiary education. She believed in it and strived to actualise it. So, she certainly would not have taken kindly to any prophecy that this dream would be cut short or aborted by tragedy.
Foreigners fingered in Ogun Okada war
For residents of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, the fear of Okada riders is the beginning of wisdom. Apart from their stunts on the road, they are gradually turning into terrorists as they unleash violence on the people at the drop of a hat.
Benue: Ending the Fulani herdsmen’s siege
Parts of Benue State have, in the last few years, come under bloody attacks allegedly carried out by Fulani herdsmen.
‘My wife died 14 days after God told me He would take her away’
After 44 years of marriage, Sir James Joseph Itapke, a knight of the Catholic Church, lost his wife and mother of his five children, Lady Angelina Itakpe, to a brief illness on October 1, 2014. He told Sunday Vanguard that 14 days before then, precisely September 17, that year, God informed him that He would take away what Itakpe loved most.
Plateau killings: Rising voices of discord among farmers, herdsmen, JTF
When in 2010, the then President Umaru Yar’Adua directed the establishment of the Special Task Force, STF, to tackle the rising wave of insecurity in Plateau State, the people of the state heaved a sigh of relief.
