I am a man in my mid-40s and found out that the man I believed to be my father, was not my real father. Let me start from the beginning. I am the last child of my parents. I have…
Kwara police probe death of 3 siblings inside car
Kwara State Police Commissioner, Victor Olaiya, has ordered a discreet investigation into the death of three siblings who were suffocated to death in a stationary car in Ilorin on Sunday. LEADERSHIP gathered that policemen on Monday visited the scene of…
Abducted girls: Police deploy tactical units, comb forests, shanties
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have continued to comb bushes and shanties in border areas between the FCT, Niger, Kaduna, and Nasarawa States, in a bid to rescue the remaining 23 victims that were abducted by bandits…
Siblings drown on Christmas Day in Lagos
The Police Command in Lagos State said on Thursday that two brothers drowned at Ibeshe Beach on Christmas Day. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos that someone reported the…
A few things that don’t cost a thing
Growing up, my parents served me and the rest of my siblings some tough love. Their understanding of parenting was to deliver instant justice that came in the form of back handed slaps, ear twisting, and hard knocks that made…
I have no answers to why my sibs are dying
You ask me how I feel? I don’t know what I am supposed to feel; I just buried a brother few days back and he didn’t die from coronavirus; I am quite sure of that. My brother was never sick;…
*How two siblings beheaded my 10-year-old son – Father (Punch) *How convicted fraudster, Aroke pulled off $1m scam from Lagos’ maximum prison, attends parties (DailyTrust)
How two siblings beheaded my 10-year-old son –Father (Punch) Mr Kayode Makinde, the father of 10-year-old Joseph Makinde, who was beheaded by two siblings, Saheed and Ayodeji Obadimeji, on Monday, narrated to a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere how…
Hide your children or they die! My brother’s story will make you cry
My brother is married to a woman whose family has bad luck. I said bad luck runs in that family because so many young deaths have occurred in the last 20 years, well that is about the same period my brother…
My mother had me at 15. I had mine at 15 but I swore my daughter would be different!
Mine is a twisted story but I’ll try to break it down. My mother got pregnant when she was 14 years in form two in secondary school, back when JSS and SS hadn’t been introduced into our school system. She…
Two siblings burnt to death in midnight fire (Guardian)
The Kano State Fire Service yesterday confirmed the death of two boys of the same parent in a fire incident. The children reportedly died yesterday during an early morning inferno that gutted their parent’s two-bedroom apartment at Sharada, Ja’en Yamma…