Author Archives: Joe

66 Positive Things You Should Be Saying to Your Child

  In a world where saying “no” is usually a lot easier than saying “yes,” it is important to bring up children who don’t feel that negativity has a higher value than positivity. Encouraging words can have a truly lasting effect on your kiddo years and years after you’ve said them, so we should choose to use phrases …

RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW WE CAN CURB CHILD MARRIAGE

To the Parliament Enact legislation which: sets the minimum age for marriage at 18 in accordance with the definition of a child in the Convention on the Rights of the Child; makes those who perform, register, or assist in child marriages liable to criminal prosecution, and establishes fines for the failure to register marriages; establishes the principle …

Rehabilitating street children

By Rasak Musbau In many countries, there are children whose habitation is on the streets. And since they domicile in the streets, they are referred to as street children. Children are supposed to enjoy love, care and protection from parents, but this is not the case with the street children. These children are denied basic rights and are exposed to …

OUTBREAK OF DEMONIC POSSESSION IN SCHOOL

Many children in a school in Peru have suffered seizures and described visions of a man in black trying to kill them in what locals say was a mass case of demonic possession. Up to 80 students were seen convulsing, screeming and fainting at Elsa Perea Flores school in Northern Peru’s Tarapolo. The school was reportedly built on a mafia graveyard. …

Dangers Of Alcohol In Pregnancy

Agency Report Women trying for a baby and those in the first three months of pregnancy should not drink any alcohol, updated UK guidelines say. Some experts had previously said a couple of glasses of wine a week was acceptable. It now says abstinence is the only way to be certain that the baby is not harmed. There is no proven safe amount that women …

The male child syndrome at its worst

While every parent-to-be wants a happy, healthy baby, many cannot deny that they have a sex preference. Dealing with it is another matter entirely. In Nigeria today,many have come to believe that once a woman has not delivered a baby boy, she is yet to make an impact in the family. So is the plight of many women who are yet to have male children for …

12-YR-OLD GIRL EXPOSES FATHER: ‘He serially raped me, aborted my 4-month-old pregnancy’

THE people of Immringi community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are  in  shock following the allegation  of  incestuous relationship between a middle aged man, Bamekpa, and his 12 year old daughter  (names withheld). Bamekpa allegedly started having canal knowledge of the girl at the age of 11. The girl allegedly  took in, before  …

Albinos killed in Tanzania for money

A new report has revealed that about 70 Tanzanian albinos have been killed in the past six years. The body parts of these albinos, ranging from hearts to genitals, are widely believed to be powerful magical ingredients. In a move to stop these killings, the government of the east African country has banned soothsayers from talking about albinos in order …

9-yr-old Albino boy butchered in Malawi for rituals

In what can best be described as wickedness of the highest order, a nine-year-old Malawian boy suffering from Albinism, identified as Brian Cedrick, has been murdered by a criminal gang nicknamed ‘Albino hunters’, who often kidnap Albinos in the country, murder them and sell off their body parts to ritualists and witch doctors. According …