Dr Timothy Ayam is the National Support Co-ordinator of the Leprosy Mission in Nigeria, an NGO that was established as far back as 1920, to provide adequate medical treatment to people affected by leprosy.

January 4, 2010, Governor Ikedi Ohakim addressed a stakeholders’ forum in Owerri where he outlined the measures the state government is taking to combat criminal activities in Imo State.

In our 13 years of marriage, I’ll say God has been faithful to my husband and I. My husband has also been very helpful all the way. He has been the Oil in my soup, the honey in my tea and his commitment to God, as a family man, father and husband is worthy of emulating.

It is sheer selfishness. So, for me, I would say that the issue of putting the militants in camps and paying them money without recourse to rapid socio-economic development of the affected areas is a clear case of pampering criminality. If government says it is granting them amnesty and rehabilitating them, rehabilitation is not about paying allowances.

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Delta State, through its chairman, Barrister Oghenjabor Ikimi also lent its voice to the Omovie appeal, specifically calling on the governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, as a matter of humanitarian gesture to come to the aid of the victim, “ as same is inconsonance with the provisions of Section 14, subsection 2, paragraph b of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which states that the primary responsibility of government shall be to ensure the welfare and security of its citizenry.”

Investigation showed that Ogo was shot when the soldier opened fire in the heat of an argument with a motor-cyclist at the checkpoint. He was rushed to the Army Barracks and kept in the military sickbay without proper treatment.

Edobor continued that I showed him love and care but he remained unyielding, adding that “at a time when his wife was heavily pregnant, I asked him if there was any housemaid to assist his wife in cleaning the environment but, he pleaded that as soon as his wife puts to bed, he would employ an house-help. Behold, his wife puts to bed although through a more pathetic circumstance and we never bothered to ask him for anything again.

By Sam Eyoboka TUESDAY, July 26, 2009 will remain indelible in the memory of Elder Emmanuel Ndah. Until that day, the Kogi State-born middle aged man had lived peacefully with his wife and son in Low Cost area of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital trying to eke a living through the sale of patent medicine. […]

…Children and relations call on igp for help By Evelyn Usman I watched my mother breath her last. She died in my hands, after being in coma for three days, without a word on how she met her unprepared end”. Those were the pathetic and touching lamentations of Godsent Oghenekewe Apkede, an Ordinary National Diploma […]

Miss Temitayo Talabi,2, was abducted by  unknown gunmen while with her grandparents,Mr and Mrs Henry Omamogho at 9pm(24-5-09), 130, Bamgbose Street, Lagos Island. Little Temitayo has been living with her parent (Lanre and late Roli Talabi) in the same house with her grandparents. According to information gathered, late Roli was staying in her parents’ house […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI—The mysterious shooting of an Igbo trader detained under police custody in a police post at Vaase village in Logo local government area of Benue state has left sour taste in the  mouths of many, including the Igbo Traders Association ,ITA, who are demanding an explanation to the circumstances surrounding the  murder. […]

Some commercial sex workers in Port Harcourt, NIgeria have planned “a service of songs” for pop idol Michael Jackson, to display their heartfelt grief “for a musician whose music always attracts customers to us when we dance”.

In 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, so strong was the Catholic position against abortion as a family planning device  that the Confab was dubbed ‘The Abortion Conference’.

The game of soccer, football as it is known in America, helps to bring together, people from  different backgrounds.  Through this sport barriers created by ignorance or prejudice, are   broken down. Despite the beauty of football, gangsterism has become associated to it, especially in Africa. Why does the game attract violence  more than other  sports? […]

By Emma Nnadozie (Crime Editor) If the divisional Police  officer in-charge   of Awka Metropolis in Anambra state, Francis Effiong Bassey (44) had known that coming down closer home after serving the Police Force diligently at the Force Headquarters in Abuja will spell doom for him, he would have rather, chosen to remain where he was.