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Cross River: Ritual killings resurface ahead of 2027 elections

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.
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Tragic excursion: Teacher drowns during sight-seeing

Tragic excursion: Teacher drowns during sight-seeing

“Somebody took my son and threw him into the sea. My Sunday is a peaceful boy, he does not fight and does not smoke, I can’t believe he is nowhere to be found. I miss him so much”; Sunday’s mother, Mrs Oluyemi Akindele lamented holding her bible to her chest and speaking Yoruba in very low tones.

Obalende: When bulldozers came calling

Obalende: When bulldozers came calling

IT was an exercise reminiscent of the demolition of the chaotic Oshodi Market-cum- bus-stop in January 2009 by men of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement Unit). It was a massive operation which sent all undesirable elements within Oshodi and environs packing and ensured the return of sanity in the area.

Sad, painful stories of a tanker fire

Sad, painful stories of a tanker fire

Call it a typical tragic story coming out of tragedy-prone Lagos, you will not be wrong. For how else can one describe the fate of a man and his mother who were both victims of the tanker fire that claimed several lives at Fin Niger along the Lagos-Badagary Expressway.

Parents of acid bath victim tell their story

Parents of acid bath victim tell their story

After Vanguard broke the sad story of Comfort Sunday, the reaction from all over the world was unbelievable, but encouraging. For an update Vanguard Metro eventually caught up with her father, the very man accused of bathing Comfort with acid. Mr. Sunday James, a retired Police corporal, now an unemployed security guard in Akwanga, had played hide and seek with Vanguard the first time we attempted to get his side of he story.

When rapists storm girls school

When rapists storm girls school

Students of Owerri Girls Secondary School will not forget November 28, 2010, in a hurry. They woke up like they did in previous days.