Two children, Samat Saheed and a yet-to-be-identified girl, have lost their lives when the fence of a school, Covenant Point Academy, collapsed on them at Ajose Street, in the Amukoko area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the nine-year-old…
Ukraine children return to studies amid the sound of war
Antonina Sidorenko has put on her favorite clothes, selected the prettiest ribbon to adorn her hair, and can recite by heart the poem given by her schoolteacher. But with lessons taking place at home to the background sound of gunfire…
How driver suffocated my son, father of pupil who died on Lagos school bus
The father of one of the pupils who lost their lives after suffocating on a bus conveying them home from school in Lagos, has spoken on how he got the sad news. On Friday, two pupils of a mission school,…
COP26: Climate change puts one billion children at risk – UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund has stated that climate change crisis has posed as a threat to one billion children, putting them at high risk. This was contained in a press release by the agency on Monday, stating that UNICEF…
When couples can’t have children-Tara Aisida
They married straight after their national youth service having being retained at their respective places of service and introduced by mutual friends. There was no opposition to their union as they were from the same tribe, religion and social class…
See, I’m cheating on my husband but I don’t want to leave him!
Last week, they were talking about the story of a woman who was beaten to death by her husband because she refused him sex! That woman was one of us here in the market, she used to sell here. Some…
He wanted a son but got a monster instead!
Our husband was a very rich man and so we all fought to bear children for him. We are Muslims and he married us, just a few years apart, all five of us are about the same age too and…
My wife had 3 kids for another man but I still married her!
I am a pastor but I am no saint. I started by telling you this because I don’t want readers to read me with rose tainted glasses. I am first a man; warts and all, before I became a pastor,…
Madness is not a matter for children-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigerian politics is pure madness. This is the declaration of a strategic source of mine, a grand old man in his eighties who has seen it all in the game of politics in Nigeria. I was in the great man’s…
World Health Day: How parents can use hand washing to improve hygiene for children
Children, by nature, are the most carefree beings in the world. But they are arguably the most susceptible to knowledge and guidance. It’s why parents usually tread on the side of caution in exposing them to various things and carrying…