The Ondo State Police Command has paraded a 64-year-old man, Joseph Ojo who set his five children ablaze in his residence in the state. Addressing newsmen at the Ondo State Police Command headquarters in Akure, the state capital, the spokesperson for the command, Funmilayo Odunlami said that three of the burnt children died, while the…
The UN says more than 2.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance following the worst flooding in a decade. Some 60% of them are children. READ ALSO – We’ll shut down production if gov’t doesn’t deal with cedi depreciation – Packaged water producersThe UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, added that people were…
A Nigerian boy has been killed by his brother while testing a newly bought “bullet-proof” charm, police say. The two believed they had “fortified themselves with the protective charm”, according to police in Kwara state Abubakar Abubakar then shot at his younger brother Yusuf, 12, using their father’s rifle, officers say. Police are now looking…
A Christian woman in northeast Nigeria is on trial after being held incommunicado for more than four months on blasphemy charges for forwarding a WhatsApp message, sources said. Rhoda Ya’u Jatau, 45, was arrested in Bauchi state in May after receiving a WhatsApp message from Ghana condemning the gruesome killing of Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a university student…
The three-storey building located at Oye Sonuga Street, Off Oye Roundabout in Isolo Road, Mushin collapsed on Friday afternoon trapping an unidentified number of persons. The latest update from the Lagos Territorial Coordinator of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirms that two female and two male bodies have been pulled out from the rubble of the building….