A 25-year-old woman in Ebo­nyi State, Ugochukwu Otu, has done the abominable by killing her one-day baby girl soon after she was discharged from a maternity home. Otu did it so that she would be free to live her life as she pleases and avoid the maternal responsibility of caring for the baby. The horrific act was committed on December 22, 2014 in Enohia …

BY FEMI MAKINDE Four members of the same family– a father, mother and their two kids– have been crushed to death by a truck laden with bags of rice. The accident was said to have happened along the Iwo-Ibadan Road in Osun State. A passenger in a commercial bus, who witnessed the accident, told our correspondent in Osogbo on Sunday that Mr. and Mrs. …

In our bedeviled times, it seems like it is a crime to be born a Nigerian. Some may say a child has no choice as to where he/ she eventually emerges, but our times have no patience for the logic of choices; our times swallow our children even before they think geography. Poor Nigerian child. As nations sit back  to think of strides or otherwise made …

The Minister of Health, Dr. Halliru Alhassan, on Thursday said Nigeria would be certified polio-free this month. Alhassan disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto, while reviewing some of the activities of his ministry in 2014. According to him, no case of polio had been recorded in the country in the last six months, and this qualifies …

ARRESTED CHILD KIDNAPPER The police in Abuja have arrested a suspected kidnapper, Bola Adesina, who allegedly abducted a five-year-old boy from the Sagamu area of Ogun State. The 31-year-old Adesina was arrested by detectives attached to the Utako Police Division on Christmas Eve of 2014. It was also learnt that the victim, identified simply as Ahmed, …

  Reports reaching us has it that many children and women died in the bush from exhaustion, while they were fleeing insurgents who attacked the town of Mubi in Adamawa State, Nigeria. This is just as several families whose children got missing are still searching for them. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), 6000 children …