Joyful events — the birth of a child, a big win by your team — can trigger a dangerous condition called the “broken heart syndrome”, doctors and researchers reported Thursday.

14-year-old Ese Rita Oruru, the Delta State-born girl-child, resident in Bayelsa, who was abducted by Yunusa Dahiru, alias Yellow, but rescued by the Police in Kano, has been discovered to be about five months pregnant, very reliable sources have told Vanguard.

There were indications yesterday that the kidnappers who stormed Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos, Monday night, abducting three Senior Secondary School female students have reduced the ransom to N20 million per student.

Despite the angry reactions that trailed the alleged kidnap of 14 years old Esse Oruru from Bayelsa state to Kano, relations of another missing 14 years old girl, Patience Paul, have alleged that the primary six student of Mohammed Zako Model Primary school, Sokoto may have been abducted and housed at the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto.

All those that are attempting to distort the narrative about the tragic plight of Miss Ese Oruru are evil and we commit them to God’s judgement. The facts are as follows.

Mr. Charles Oruru, father of abducted Ese, who regained freedom yesterday at his Opolo residence in Yenagoa, said he will seek spiritual help from Lagos cleric, Pastor T. B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations.

ikorodu—Armed kidnappers numbering over 10, Monday night stormed Babington Macualay Junior Seminary, a model private missionary secondary school located in Ikorodu area of Lagos, abducting three female Senior Secondary School students.

The disagreement within the Peoples Democratic Party came to a head Tuesday as some members of the party teamed up with others in the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, and other parties to form a new party.

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos in a landmark judgment has held that successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 “breached the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability for failing to disclose details about the spending of recovered stolen public funds, including on a dedicated website.”

The Bayelsa-born teenager, Miss Ese Oruru and her alleged abductor, Yunusa have been flown Abuja, Tuesday morning.The Bayelsa-born teenager, Miss Ese Oruru and her alleged abductor, Yunusa were Tuesday morning, flown to Abuja by the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 1.

Chairman, Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has disclosed that in addition to his plans to force a reduction in the dollar exchange rate, he has designed a template to boost Nigeria’s Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, by 30 per cent.

Fear has gripped top officials of the Budget Department of the National Planning Ministry as President Muhammadu Buhari returns to the country this week after spitting fire abroad over alleged padding of the 2016 Budget.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), has apprehended four suspected drug traffickers, including a Birmingham-based cleaner, with 6.822kg of narcotics worth N61 million.

The aura and grandeur of an African king is so overwhelming that his demise is announced in innuendoes as ‘joining the ancestors‘ and is usually discussed in hushed tones. But in Ubulu-Uku, a sacrilege uncommon happened when the icy hands of death snatched away His Royal Majesty Edward Ofulue III by unknown assassins. But despite the air of gloom that enveloped the ancient kingdom of Ubulu-Uku known for its traditional clothes weaving and alluring palm wine, the people rose with one voice and passed the symbols of royal sovereign, the crown and the spectre to the scion of the departed king, the 17-year-old HRM Obi Chukwuka Akaeze, making him one of the youngest monarchs on the face of the earth.