Multi-award-winning music star, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has announced plans to gift N100 million to children for Christmas. The singer revealed this in posts on his Instagram story on Monday, stating that this will start from the Surulere…
Bandits kidnap mom, 3 children in Abuja
A nursing mother and three children have been kidnapped by bandits in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Residents say the bandits invaded the community on Sunday night between 7pm and 9pm and abducted a…
Come o, what do you know about your neighbour?
The day Eleanor’s husband, Obatunde, moved out of their matrimonial home, virtually everyone in our estate knew and for almost one year after, Eleanor did not breathe a word about it, she kept mum, carried on as if all was…
Landlord bags double life imprisonment for sexually assaulting tenant’s 2 children
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, sentenced a 65-year-old man, Igwe Ambrose, to double life jail term for inserting fingers into the private parts of his tenant’s children, ages seven and 11. The News Agency of…
Lagos advocates national implementation of nutritional policy
The Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has advocated implementation of National Food and Nutrition Policy for healthy developmental growth of children. Mrs Oluyemi Kalesanwo, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry made the call on Wednesday in…
Fire razes Lagos orphanage home, 7 children rescued
Seven children were rescued on Sunday after fire gutted a storey building occupied by an orphanage home on Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in a statement on Monday,…
Girl receives heart of 4-year-old-boy in 1st transplant of its kind in Ukraine
Amid the raging war and constant threat of Russian missiles, a successful heart transplant has been performed on a 6-year-old girl in Kyiv, authorities with the Heart Institute of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health announced on Monday. The three-hour operation, which…
He told me he hated sex, yet he fathered children outside
What man tells his wife he doesn’t like sex? Let me tell you how I got here. I got married late… All my sisters, even my younger cousins had all gotten married long before I finally did. In fact, at…
4 children reported found in Amazon 17 days after plane crash
Three children and a baby were reported to have been found alive more than two weeks after a plane crashed with them on board in the Colombian Amazon jungle. Colombian authorities had deployed more than 100 soldiers with sniffer dogs…
8 in 10 South African children struggle to read by age of 10
Eight out of 10 South African school children struggle to read by the age of ten, an international study has found. South Africa ranked last out of 57 countries assessed in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which tested…
