An arrested teenager, Sunday (surname withheld), who stole the motorcycle of a neighbour and decided to go for tinted hair from the N150,000 proceeds, has blamed his father for his continuous criminal act. The suspect said that his father refused…
He told me I was the sweetest thing but I’m his daughter!
I didn’t know what being the “sweetest” thing meant when my father told me. I was just turning 12 years old and living alone with him after my mother left to marry another man. My mother may have felt that…
Son arrested for killing activist dad over monetary dispute in Edo
The Edo State Police Command has said that Arthur Angel Jr. killed his father, Arthur Judah Angel over monetary demand at Ugboha, in Esan South East on Sunday. The Spokesman of the Command, Chidi Nwabuzor, told The PUNCH on Wednesday…
I convinced my wife to sell our baby to raise money to travel out — Suspect
A 28-year-old man, yesterday, narrated how he convinced his wife to sell their two-year-old baby to raise money for him to travel out of the country. The father of one, a labourer, identified as Uchenna Eziekwe and his wife, Chineye…
Lagos Assembly Speaker, Obasa, loses father
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has lost his father. The deceased, Pa Suleimon Atanda Obasa, died at the age of 83 in the early hours of Tuesday. Pa Obasa, a loving family…
Singer who raised thousands for NHS during lockdown killed in pub attack
A singer who raised thousands for the NHS during the Covid pandemic has been killed during an attack in a pub over the Bank Holiday weekend. ‘Local hero’ Robert Hiscoe, 37, was rushed to hospital after being seriously assaulted at…
I met my step- brother at a party and since then, we have partied together
Ours is a funny story. My father is late now. He died at the age of 60 and he was a man we all thought we knew so well. But you know, when you hear about men having two families,…
My 70 year old father impregnated a 19 year old. Oya, guess what happened next?
Small girls these days are trying, o. They are smarter than their elders, I swear! All the news I have heard about the Super TV boss that was murdered has left me wondering especially with many people saying the man…
DNA tests: Who is the real father of the child?
I followed with keen interest, the conversation on paternity issues and the necessity of DNA tests after the news broke of Tunde Thomas, a man who allegedly died of a broken heart following his discovery that the children of the…
I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but my father was an evil man
We were friends at school. And for a long time, my siblings and I had no idea our father was sleeping with our friend. We wouldn’t have known if my mother hadn’t confirmed it when Baba died suddenly. And when…