Author Archives: Joe

10
Jan

‘UNILAG graduate’ rapes nine-year-old, flees

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December 2, 2014 was a sad day for Mrs. Bilikis Balogun. That day, she learnt that her innocent nine-year-old girl, Nofisat, had been sexually assaulted by their 30-year-old neighbour, Ikechukwu Obasi, while she was in the market. “He has fled his apartment since the incident. But I just want him to face justice and get punishment for what he did …
07
Jan

Three-year-old narrates how man raped her

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  BY SAMSON FOLARIN Little Chinansa (pseudonym) lost her innocence to a neighbour, who stole her virginity under the pretext of being a friend. Though in kindergarten class two, Chinansa vividly recalled how she was allegedly defiled by 25-year-old Hamzat Afeez, a painter who lived in her parents’ house. During a visit to the residence on Remi …
05
Jan

MOTHER KILLS HER DAY – OLD BABY

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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 …
05
Jan

Truck crushes parents, two kids to death

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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. …
04
Jan

Father Christmas arrested …For defiling 5-yr-old schoolgirl

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Santa Claus or Father Christmas, as he is often called in this clime, is known for rewarding good conducts. Now, what happens when this rewarder of virtues becomes the wrongdoer? That is exactly what played out recently at a Christmas party or­ganized by a nursery and primary school in the Ojodu-Abiodun area of Ogun State. During such parties, children …
03
Jan

THE CURSE OF THE NIGERIAN CHILD

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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 …
02
Jan

NIGERIA TO BE CERTIFIED POLIO-FREE THIS MONTH – JANUARY 2015

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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 …