Reports from Chibok show that 306 days after the Chibok girls were abducted from their secondary school by armed Boko Haram insurgents, 13 of the parents of those girls have since died due to stress-related illnesses. An online report by the Associated Press (AP), while saying that hundreds of other girls and boys have been abducted in different villages …

No fewer than 16,600 children are registered as having lost one or both parents, or primary care-givers to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone so far, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said. The UN body said less than three per cent of this population was placed outside family or community care. This was disclosed in a statement …

Baby got back! Maxxandra Ford of Tampa, Fl. set a record on Jan. 29 by giving birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 14 pounds and one ounce. That makes her son the largest baby born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa Bay, and one of the largest ever born in the state’s history. Ford, who has a 1-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter already, claims …

A two-year-old boy has been miraculously pulled to safety after his plane crashed in Taiwan. He was among four other children who thankfully survived the devastating accident. Tragedy has struck Taiwan after an aircraft clipped a motorway overpass, causing it to crash into a river on Feb. 4. Sadly, multiple passengers have reportedly died, but, by …

Proud: Hayley with husband Sam and twins Avery, left, and Darcey   A woman told she was genetically a man with no reproductive organs when she was 19 has given birth to twin girls. Hayley Haynes, 28, had miracle babies Avery and Darcey after she grew a womb thanks to hormone therapy. Gazing lovingly at the baby in her arms, Hayley can’t believe …

Omonigho – now                                         Then Omonigho Abraham, the four year old boy who was attacked by dogs in the Igando area of Lagos State, has returned into the country from an India medical trip. Omonigho returned into Nigeria on Thursday in company with his father, Odia, and mother, Helen, who went with …

The residents of the Ijetu area of Osogbo have been thrown into mourning following the discovery of the corpses of two pupils on the Osun River. It was gathered that a woman had gone to the river to fetch water when she found the corpses of the two pupils floating on the river. A resident of the area told Punch on Thursday that the woman dropped her …

“I live in Doro Baga, Nigeria. As I fled, I picked up this boy crying beside his dead mother. At 6am we heard the sounds of guns, when they arrived for us an hour later, we started to run. They came after us and killed many people. I saw the boy and took him with me and my children, onto my husband’s small canoe out into Lake Chad. We stayed …

It is a new lease of life for conjoined twins from Tanzania who had shared a common heart lining, diaphragm and a liver. Doctors, including two teams of plastic surgeons at leading city-based Apollo Children’s Hospital, who undertook a marathon, 11-hour operation managed to separate the twins. The twins’ condition was described as thoraco omphalopagus …

Nigeria will wait till 2017 before it is certified polio-free by the World Health Organisation, WHO, it was revealed yesterday. The country must, however, sustain its interruption of the wild type of the virus, Type One, it recorded on July 24, 2014, in order to attain the status. Nigeria is currently one of the three remaining endemic countries with …