Author Archives: Joe

NGO seeks end to violence against women, children

Anon-govermental organisation, Hope For Life Initiative, has embarked on a campaign to end violence against women and the girl-child. The NGO, in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) and the Lagos State Ministry of Education, have within the last four weeks, led the initiative to propagate the “HeForShe” campaign in three …

Top Brain Foods For Children

A healthy, balanced diet is not just good for kid’s bodies, it’s good for their brains, too. The right foods can improve brain function, memory, and concentration. Like the body, the brain absorbs nutrients from the foods we eat, and these 10 “superfoods” on the following slides can help children boost their brainpower. Fatty fish, such as salmon, …

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Hosts Widows And Orphans

Nollywood diva, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has shown time without number, her milk of kindness. The sexy thespian and mother of four through Give And Let Give, in conjunction with her NGO, OYEP, feted widows and orphans to food, drinks, dancing and gifts. Omotola, who is marking her 20th year anniversary in entertainment, hosted the end of year Give And …

Barber slashed my neck for not dating him – SS3 pupil

Boluwatife on hospital bed with her mother | credits: Kunle Falayi Eighteen-year-old Boluwatife Ajadi has finally been able to speak, one week after she was attacked with a razor by a young man at Baruwa area of Ipaja, Lagos and almost died. Boluwatife, an SS3 pupil of progress Secondary School in Baruwa, who explained how she became a victim of the …

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

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 …

Three-year-old narrates how man raped her

  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 …

MOTHER KILLS HER DAY – OLD BABY

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 …

Truck crushes parents, two kids to death

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. …