Unfortunately, Kano, being one of the 12 states of the federation yet to pass the Child Rights Law and operating the Sharia legal system, Wasila has no protection under the child rights regime except immediate plans are made not only to use her case as advocacy for the ills of child marriage but also to arrange a robust defence with a strategy to appeal the inevitable outcome of the sentence to death at the Sharia court.

Wasila Umar, a 14-year-old child bride, made news in April when she killed her husband and four of his friends through food poisoning.

This, indeed, is an unusual season for the residents of Ogun State. Lately, sleeping with their two eyes closed has become a Herculean task.

Taiwo Akinlami is a child protection specialist; an independent legal & social regulatory expert; a consultant on child’s rights & responsibilities and a consultant to UNICEF on child protection. He speaks on the chances of Wasila escaping death if the court finds her guilty of killing her husband because our laws are against sentencing children to death

Call it a surge and you won’t be wrong. Call it a swarm and you also will be right. School pupils in front of St Joseph’s College, Ondo were giving the bus officials a hard time.

I do not know your source of information, but I believe, very strongly, that that information cannot be correct, because what we have on ground in Ekiti State does not speak in that direction. What we have are people who are very appreciative.

An unkind fate like a bull in a China shop recently attacked popular sports broadcaster and member of the Confederation of Africa Football, CAF, Aisha Folade, following the gruesome murder of her 19 year-old son , Oluwadamilola Oloruntoba, in far away Dubai, the United Arab Emirates,UAE three months ago.

FEAR of the known pervades any mention of Chibok. It is gripping, unspoken fear, with expected consequences that when I piled inside a bus for the 130-kilometre drive to uncertainty, the only thing I knew was that death could be a part of the trip.

HE would have the status of a permanent secretary in the public service. The local level of government should be the affair of the Regional Government. It means that all the 774 local government councils would be inherited by the Region into which they fall.

Nigeria has been in the news for the past couples of weeks. We hosted the World Economic Forum Africa (WEFA) May 7 – 9, 2014 in the aftermath of the expansion of the activities of International Terrorist Group called Boko Haram. Let me hereby repeat my President’s gratitude to the one thousand one hundred people from seventy countries who participated at WEFA. We appreciate the confidence reposed in Nigeria by their participation.