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.
Tension in Lagos market as traders protest invasion by NURTW
The peace and tranquility that pervade the popular Ile-Epo Market in Abule Oke-Odo area of Lagos State was truncated on January 7, 2016 when some persons suspected to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW invaded the market with guns, cutlasses and broken bottles.
How tomato cultivation is taking root in Delta
Like wild fire, commercial tomato cultivation has taken roots in Delta to the extent that its farmers claim that they have the capacity to crash market prices and push the near total dependence on supplies from Northern Nigeria into the dustbin of history in no distant future.
When FRCN identified with IDPs in Borno
Hauwa Maishara, a 35-year-old mother of four, is one of the internally displaced persons, IDPs, who moved to the IDPs camp in Dalori, Maiduguri, the Borno State capital when Boko Haram insurgents made her home very close to Potiskum almost uninhabitable.
Rotary brings succour to LASUTH patients at Christmas
In what has become an annual ritual for the past 35 years, Rotary Club of Ikeja spent the early hours of Christmas day with patients at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH and Ikeja. General Hospital. Members of the group danced as they distributed gifts to patients at various wards as part of their humanitarian efforts to bring succour to the sick who were forced to celebrate Christmas at the hospitals.
MYSTERY: Female swamp corpses unsettle Lagos community
In the past four weeks, the community of Anibaba, Bugon Filling Station and Water Corporation, Obafemi Awolowo Road, Ikorodu has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.
