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 …