The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has lamented the increasing cases of kidnapping among the children. The governor said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Wednesday by his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon. The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori, spoke at this year’s Children’s …

On Wednesday, the abducted school girls from Government secondary school, Chibok in Borno state, would have been missing from their families and endured unimaginable atrocities at the hands of their their abductors, the Boko Haram sect, for one year. While some of the parents of the girls have died from anxiety and depression from their predicament,   …

The Director of Administration representing the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in the Board of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, Mr. Christian Onuoha, has been arrested by the police for the mysterious death of his 10-year-old housemaid. The victim, Anurika Ngwakwe, was allegedly found unconscious in Onuoha’s …

The Nigerian Child Rights Law 2003 specifically prohibits the sale or procurement of a child but in the world 31-year-old Gideon Ani lives in, no such law exists. Ani, an unemployed indigene of Abia State, who is currently being quizzed by investigators at the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, Lagos had just had his first child, a boy, from …

By Chika Mefor, BY Ejike Ejike The #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) group has called on the government to see to the prosecution of parents who were alleged to have sold their children to the Boko Haram sect. Speaking during the usual sitting protest of the group, one of its members, Elvis Iyorngurum stated that it is imperative that parents or relatives caught …

Men of the Oyo State Police Command have commenced investigation into the killing of a student of Moslem Grammar School, Ibadan. The deceased student was  allegedly stabbed to death with a knife on Friday during an argument with his fellow student. The murdered student, whose name was given as Toib Aresa, was said to be an SS2 student in the same school, …