The police have arrested a 30-year-old motorcycle rider, Garuba Abdulraman, for allegedly defiling a two-year-old, Pat, (pseudonym) in the Somolu area of Lagos State. It was learnt that Abdulraman, an indigene of Niger State, also kicked the minor’s pregnant aunty, Alimat Muazu, when the later quizzed him on the child’s whereabouts. The incident …

A 12-month-old baby boy, Chizoba Maduabuchi was sold by his father for N300,000. But fate was kind to the little boy. He was recovered from his buyer by the police in Abia State following the alarm raised by the mother of the baby, which prompted detectives to swing into action. The Abia State Commissioner of Police, Joshak Habila, paraded the suspected …

At least 89 boys, some as young as 13, were abducted by an armed group in South Sudan, the United Nations children’s agency said Saturday. The abductions took place near Malakal in the northern part of the country, UNICEF said in a statement. The actual number could be higher, the agency added. Armed soldiers surrounded the area and searched house …