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.
Gunmen allegedly kill two policemen, one civilian in Delta
By Jimitota Onoyume – Warri Two policemen and a civilian were shot dead weekend around Alaka junction on Warri-Sapele road in Uvwie local government area of Delta state. Eye witnesses told Vanguard that the policemen were on escort duty when they were attacked. They said it was like the gunmen in another vehicle trailed them […]
VIDEO: Emotions, chants as civil society group pay condolence visit to Joe Odumakin
Members of civil society group group on Easter Sunday, paid a condolence visit to Dr Joe, wife of late Yinka Odumakin, who passed on Saturday 3rd April, 2021.
Family of five, homeless as Lagos landlord seizes property, lock them out for owing rent
A family of five the Olalekan Baloguns of European Quarters, Meiran area of Lagos, has been rendered homeless after their landlord allegedly seized their belongings and locked them out of their room and parlour apartment since Thursday, March 25, 2021.
Four persons feared dead in Bayelsa community over security contract
…IYC tasks Gov Diri, security agencies to restore order By Emem Idio – Yenagoa Four persons have reportedly died in Bilabiri Community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State following a blood bath over disagreement on a proposed security contract. It was gathered that the blood bath that led to the loss of lives […]
Beggars protest low patronage in Oyo
About 250 beggars in Ibadan, on Thursday, protest low patronage by members of the public following a recent rumour that some rich men usually ‘buy’ money from them for fetish purposes.
