Double trouble for the dead: 16 months after death, Abia widower still can’t bury wife
For more than 16 months, Mr Elijah Ndubuisi Amah has lived with a pain that refuses to go away. His wife, Mrs Nkechi Florence Elijah, died on April 9, 2025, at the age of 32.
Ticket to Europe? Nigeria girls lured into sexual slavery
In Benin City, Nigeria’s capital of illegal migration, no one says the word “prostitution”. The word on the street for the young girls who leave for Italy or France is “hustling”.
Man kills 18-month old daughter, says she a witch
A 32-year-old man, Robinson Omeje, who killed his 18-month-old daughter, Esther Robinson, because a voice ministered to him that she was a witch, was, yesterday, arraigned in a Makurdi magistrate’s court.
FCT, Lagos State record 58,566 crime cases in 2016 – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that the FCT and Lagos State reported a total of 58,566 crime cases in 2016.
Youth sentenced 4 months jail-term for theft of cell phone in a mosque
A Grade 1 Area Court in Karu, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced a 22 year-old youth, Shefiu Samaila, to a 4-months jail term for theft of cell phone in a mosque.
Sabagreia: Bayelsa community where evil, wicked men dread
SABAGREIA—THE Izon-speaking riverine community, Sabagreia, is situated at a point where River Nun branches out into a major tributary, the Igbedi Creek, in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. But what attracts other Bayelsans and residents from neighbouring Rivers and Delta states to the waterside locality, formerly known as Bolouseibokrogha, which translated literally means ‘a town where no evil/wicked person would settle’ is the Lake Efi fishing festival.
