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.
Ogun crash: I lost most brilliant child – Victim’s mother
Mrs. Tayo Ayoade, 45, mother of Lekan, one of the seven school children who were crushed to death by a truck, Wednesday, said she has lost the most brilliant of her children.
How Ibadan market leader lost N26.8m to midnight inferno
If Mr. Olusola Olalere, the General Chairman, Ifeleye/Ogunpa Market had known the people whom he had offended as the leader of the market, he would not have hesitated to beg them for forgiveness.
US-based NGO signs pact with Ejigbo LCDA to build library
As part of efforts to inculcate reading culture in children and other residents of Ejigbo, Hope and Dreams Initiative, a non-governmental organisation, NGO based in United States of America, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding. MoU with the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area,LCDA to build a library in the area.
Lamentations of the physically challenged
As the United Nations marked the world’s day for persons with disabilities, Nigerians have been urged not to treat those with physical challenges as outcasts but to make the environment a friendly one for them. Speaking at a social dialogue whose aim was how to remove all barriers and create an inclusive and accessible society for all, Ms Abimbola Ajayi, an architect and who is the immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Institute of Architects, NIA, said it was a shame that disabled people who struggle to get educated in spite of their challenges cannot get a job in the country.
Teenagers in search of lifeline for dying mother
TWO secondary school students, Miss Ann Adamatie and Master Victor Adamatie, aged 16 and 13 respectively, have cried out to the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and other kind-hearted Nigerians to save their 51-year-old mother, Mrs. Roli Adamatie, a teacher, who is suffering hiatal hernia with reflux esophagitis and peptic structure from the paroxysms of death.
