Babies in the rubble: Inside Lagos’ growing child abandonment crisis
ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
Woman pleads guilty, admits stealing, selling baby for N30,000 in Rivers
A woman, Joy Olakawogu has pleaded guiltily to a charge of child stealing before a Port Harcourt Magistrate Court, Rivers state, admitting that she received N30,000 reward for her first stolen child in 2018.
Who owns Monkey Village?
The above question is a rhetoric begging for legal bases as a result of the controversies that have since been doing the rounds on social media following the land tussle between a former second Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Monday Ubani, and a building developer, Engr Abiodun Ariori, who the former alleged to be a land grabber.
7 arrested for stealing phone, withdrawing N330,000 from owner’s account
By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano The Police Command in Kano has arrested one Abdulsalam Isah of Gwagwarwa quarters for stealing a mobile phone worth N180,000 which he used to steal N330,000 from the phone owner’s bank account. The police arrested six other suspects in connection with the stealing of the mobile phone all of who […]
Oke Ogun youths go on rampage as truck crushes boy to death in Oyo
***As eight feared dead in auto crash Ola Ajayi – Ibadan Youths at Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo state went on a rampage after a young boy identified as Ayuba Raji was crushed to death by a truck loaded with scores of cattle. Subsequently, the angry youths set ablaze the truck and the […]
Rivers community explains reason for its youths face-off against Navy
By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt The People of Rumuolumeni Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State have explained that they pulled force against the Nigeria Navy Ship, NNS, Pathfinder, in their area, because the command arrested and detained some of their leaders unlawfully. Youths of Rumuolumeni, had on the earlier hours of […]
Miyetti Allah’s call for inclusion, ploy to infiltrate Amotekun — OPC
The Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, on Tuesday, warned the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, to desist from its plot to infiltrate the South-West Security Network codenamed Amotekun.
Neighbour’s son impregnated my 17-year-old daughter, man tells court
A father, Malam Hussain Abubakar, on Tuesday told a Sharia Court in Sabon Gari, Zaria that his neighbour’s son, Rabiu Ibrahim, impregnated his daughter and gave him N15,000 to abort the pregnancy.
Woman, 23, beat up ex-husband, remanded
A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered that a 23-year old hairstylist, Gift Paul, who allegedly beat up her former husband be remanded in a correctional facility.
COVID-19: ‘Immigration officers insulted me, seized my passport because I asked them to wear a mask’, lady cries out (video)
By Emmanuel Okogba A Nigerian lady, Temitope Olagbegi has shared what she claimed transpired when she encountered some officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service who were not adhering to the COVID-19 safety protocols. Olagebgi said that it was a heartbreaking experience for her coming into the country to see the Nigerian Immigration officers not wearing […]
18-year-old girl sets lover ablaze after quarrel in Benue
By Peter Duru – Makurdi An 18-year-old girl, name withheld, has been apprehended by the Police after she allegedly set her boyfriend ablaze after a quarrel in the Wadata area of Makurdi town. Vanguard gathered from an eyewitness that the teenage girl carried out the dastardly act Monday morning at about 2 am when the […]
