A 51-year-old trader and mother of three, Sarah Bakare, who lives on Oluwole Street in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State, narrowly escaped being hacked to death recently, by the landlady and her seven children. Narrating the incident, the victim told Crime Alert after she was discharged from hospital that she was lucky to be alive to relive her ordeal. …

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Thursday, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce that has heightened the challenges of slowing economic growth. All couples will be allowed two children, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a communique …

A 17-year-old housemaid, Esther Abiodun, who confessed how her mistress, Alhaja Dupe Iba Agba, had been maltreating her, decided to take vengeance on the woman by emptying a pot of boiling water on her while she was was sleeping, causing her serious injuries. This came to light when the teenager was dragged to an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court sitting …

These heartbreaking pictures from rural India show the tragic suffering of a 14-month-old toddler. Dhabuhi Parmar suffers from an extreme form of hydrocephalus, a rare condition where fluid accumulates inside the skull. Her head has swollen to 23 inches – almost three times its normal size – and she is now bedridden and in danger of losing …

12-year-old Elizabeth narrated how a trigger-happy police corporal shot her parents — Mr and Mrs Godwin Ekpo — in the head. According to the girl, they were returning from church in her father’s “keke marwa” (tricycle) when they were stopped by a group of policemen who were carrying out a “stop-and-search” operation. While the father was …

SIX-YEAR-OLD  Joshua Takon is partially blind. His right  eye has lost total function, while the left eye is severely threatened. His parents are desperately seeking help to raise money for a crucial surgery that would save him from going completely blind. Joshua who was diagnosed with cleft palate at childbirth, requires N3.5 million to undertake …

A 17-year-old girl who abandoned her one-day-old baby she just delivered in a private hospital in Galadima, a community in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, The Federal Capital Territory, has been apprehended by the police and handed over to the Social Welfare Department of the FCT Administration. The teenage mother, a resident of Dutse, according to reports, …