With the increasing insurgency in the North-east by the Boko Haram sect and the inability of the federal government to rescue the Chibok girls, the #BringBackOurGirls group and some members of the Chibok community in Abuja, paid a courtesy call on the United Nations representative for Africa to seek assistance on the way forward. While speaking to the …

A 30-year-old mother, Yidiat Bakare, has been sentenced to five years in prison by an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court for throwing her three-month-old baby into a river in Ifon-Osun community, Osun State. Yidiat was said to have thrown the baby into the river to express her grievance following a disagreement with her husband, Amodu Bakare. According to …

A 15-year-old girl, Oluebube Amadi, has refused to report her guardian, Mrs. Ebere Ugochukwu, to the police for allegedly assaulting her. Amadi, a primary six pupil, lives with the woman on Muhammed Akinje Street, Ejigbo, Lagos State. It was learnt that a Good Samaritan who met her while she was writhing in pain on the street advised the victim to report …

Students and teachers returned to a Nairobi-area school from a break to find that a barrier had been erected around their play area by a private developer in an apparent sale of the land. The Nairobi city council has not commented on the legality of the sale of the land it says is public, though some protesters allege it was an unlawful land grab. …