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17 – YEAR OLD GIRL IMPREGNATED AND DUMPED IN OGUN STATE

The fate of a lady, identified simply as Ifeoma, who is believed to be between 16 and 17 years old, has been giving residents of Ilaro, in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State, a cause for concern. It was said that she had been beaten and impregnated before being dumped in Ilaro, where she had been living beside a building on Upper Leslie …

HOW EACH OF US CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

  BY JOSEPH IGWE PROVIDE ANSWERS, NOT QUESTIONS There are so many questions lingering in the world today without answers, yet people keep on asking more questions. Isn’t it better for us to suspend further questions in order to have time to seek answers to the so many questions already hanging everywhere without answers? It is these unanswered questions …

FATHER USES DAUGHTER AS COLLATERAL FOR N600,000 LOAN

Mary BY TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI Twelve-year-old Mary Okon was washing a heap of dirty clothes when she sighted her refugee father some 100 metres away. She abandoned the laundry and welcomed her father with a warm embrace. Mary was seeing her father for the first time in the New Year. For two consecutive years running, Mary, a Junior Secondary School drop-out, …

Teach your children money management skills

BY IFE ADEDAPO One of the essential duties of parents to their children is to provide for their immediate needs. Professionals say these needs include basics for survival including food, shelter, and clothing; they may also include other nice things like toys. In addition to providing for their children’s immediate needs, parents need to provide for …

My Father Gave Me To Boko Haram – 13 years old girl

  A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb in Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city in the north. Nigeria has suffered numerous suicide bombings in recent months carried out by girls and young women. That has raised fears that the insurgents are using …

Boko Haram affects over 41% children in the North East – NEMA

Over 41 per cent children have been affected by insurgency in the North-East and while about 891,000 adults are in camps while over 100,000 others are dissolved into the host communities. These figures were given by the Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sani Sidi, when the Special Representatives of the United Nations …