Mrs Comfort Adeoye, popularly known as Iya  Emman, is a house hold name in Momudu Street around Iyana-Ipaja and its environs in Lagos.  Reason? She is a nurse by profession and owns a medicine store, where those who are sick normally go  for medical attention because her charges are affordable compared to what obtains in well established hospitals. …

THE Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Wednesday, arrested two men with the corpse of a two-year-old girl. The suspects were apprehended when they were trying to bury the corpse in an abandoned pit in Osisioma, near Aba. The middle-aged suspects are Jonathan Nwogu from Mgboko Umuola in Obingwa Local Government …

Residents in Okpoko of Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State were, on Thursday, shocked when the news broke that a housewife in the community, names withheld, had dumped her newborn baby into the toilet. She was said to have a protruded stomach, a peculiar nature that made many people in the area, not to be aware that she was pregnant. She decided …

The Federal Road Safety Corps has called on motorists in the country to be safety conscious in the interest of children, who usually suffer the most. The Unit Commander, FRSC, Ota Unit Command, Matthew Olonisaye, stressed the importance of the Child Safety Education in school curriculum to ensure adequate education of children against attacks. Olonisaye …

Nigerian military says it has rescued 25 more children and women from Boko Haram as part of its ongoing campaign to attack and destroy the armed group’s camps in the northeast. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said many Boko Haram fighters were killed in a gun battle on Wednesday morning. One soldier was killed and five others were wounded, Usman …

BY ADEMOLA OLONILUA There was a sharp contrast between the brightly lit room where the three parents gathered and the looks on the faces of its occupants. The room was painted in radiant sky-blue but the faces of the parents and child that occupied the room bore a gloom and sad look. Even though it was a sunny Monday, one that held prospects of a beautiful …