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.
AUN ‘graduation’ day of celebrations and inspiring speeches
MAY 10, 2014 was certainly a day of joy for 250 graduate and 23 post-graduate students of the American University of Nigeria, AUN, as they proudly filed out to be counted during the institution’s Sixth Commencement (Graduation) ceremony for its Class of 2014
Labour laments plight of Delta pensioners
DELTA State council of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on Delta State Government to urgently address the plight of pensioners by paying their outstanding benefits among others In a statement, Comrade Williams Akporeha, chairman, Delta state NLC, wrote that information available to the congress showed that many retirees have died of untold hardship. Nonetheless, he thanked the State Government for the recent payment of arrears on six per cent and 15 per cent pension increases.
Is #BringBackOurGirls being politicised?
“IT’s going to two months and the government has not found the abducted Chibok girls. In saner climes, President Jonathan would have resigned. He simply cannot do the job of governing us,” said Lucky, a commuter in the CMS-bound bus.
How Police arrested inter-state robbery, kidnap kingpins
DETECTIVES attached to the Federal Anti-Robbery Squad, FEDSARS, Adeniji-Adele, Lagos, recently, arrested two members of a notorious six-man armed robbery and kidnap gang. Four members of the gang are said to be at large while detectives have spread their dragnets to round them up.
Even refugee children say: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
THEY are currently living in forced exile as displaced victims of war and other violent crises
