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Church General Overseer arrested for selling babies

A 43-year-old General Overseer of Divine Order of Cherubim Church, Prophet Ndubuisi Oke­obi has been arrested by opera­tives of Scorpion Squad of the Imo State police command for allegedly specialis­ing in organising crusades where he in­vites pregnant women who deliver their babies in his church and thereafter sells the babies for between N300,000 …

Pastor, runs baby factory, sells newborn for N.3m

Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested  Pastor John  (other names withheld) and his wife, Deborah, over alleged abduction of a new born baby. A police source, said the couple abducted the baby  to allegedly sell him for N300,000.00.  The pastor allegedly had a link with a  child trafficking syndicate operating   at Nung Ukot Itam, Itu Local …

Edo ringleader of child sex smuggling gang extradited to UK

A 36-year old Nigerian mother of one, Franka Asemota, was last week arrested in Benin City, the Edo state capital, and extradited to the United Kingdom. She was accused of being Ring Leader of an International child sex smuggling gang. The arrest which was carried out by men of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) who …

Girl, 15, two others injured in Lagos-Ibadan road crash

A 15-year-old girl and two others were critically injured on Friday in an auto crash at the popular Arepo Bus Stop on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway area of Ogun State. Commercial motorcyclists and other sympathisers rushed the injured victims to the nearest hospital for medical attention. An eyewitness said the accident, which involved a Toyota Sienna …

HOSPITAL WHERE UP TO FIVE WOMEN SHARE A BED

The maternity ward at Fabella Hospital in Manila overflows with hundreds of new moms. There aren’t enough beds for everyone, so they share, four or five to a bed. The babies, some of them wrapped in blankets, lie in the middle. Young mothers sit in blood-streaked, thin, white hospital gowns that curl up on their sides. On my first visit to Fabella …

10-Month-Old Baby Girl Weighs As Five-Year-Old

Juanita Valentina Hernandez weighed just 3kg when she was born, but weeks later she started rapidly gaining weight with no apparent reason. Now the girl weights 20kg and is undergoing mediсal tests to determine the cause of her condition. Juanita’s mother, Sandra Franco, said “When she was 15 days old she was already looking chubby, because she …