The Presidency has said there is hope for the release of the remaining Chibok schoolgirls. In a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the Presidency said the girls had not been forgotten. The statement said government was as concerned as the parents and other loved ones […]
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Photo: Save the Children Children as young as 11 are being slaughtered in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, an international aid agency, Save the Children, said on Tuesday. The oil-rich region has been bedevilled by violence since 2017, with armed gangs sacking villages and towns. Nearly 670,000 people have been displaced, the agency said. […]
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As part of efforts to encourage more enrolment of school-age children and check out-of-school children, Lagos State Government has expressed its readiness to build more schools. The State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo disclosed this during a meeting with the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Lagos State Resilience Office (LASRO), Arc. Gbolahan Owodunni Oki and […]
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By Banji Ayoola Why do children grow to become source of sorrow rather than joy and blessing? Why do they grow to become a nuisance, a curse to the society like developing into armed robbers, bandits or insurgents, enemies of the state, of the society spilling blood of fellow human beings in their hundreds and […]
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Disease single biggest infectious killer of adults 2.5m adults, 672,000 children killed in 2019 globally Experts blame high mortality on low immunsation, malnutrition, pollution UN agencies warn COVID-19 could add 1.9m to death toll this year Pneumonia and other childhood diseases are preventable and treatable but are still killing children in large numbers. This year’s […]
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The Church of England’s spiritual leader on Wednesday said it was disgraceful that the institution for decades failed to protect children from sexual predators within its ranks and shown lack of care for victims. From the 1940s to 2018, 390 clergy and people in positions of trust with the Church were convicted of sexual offences […]
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By Kunle Adesida Sexual assault (an act of any form directed at person’s sexuality using coercion) though is a universal occurrence, unfortunately became one of predominant concerns across Nigerian society especially in the year 2019. Nonetheless, the year 2020 is just far from safer. In fact, child rape took an unfortunate surge on the books […]
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A new born baby wrapped in a polythene bag was found dead in a gutter near Aku Village, Mararaba, in Karu area of Nasarawa state. Residents were shocked to discover the baby in the gutter. The incident which happened on Tuesday, drew a large crowd to the scene after a young man entered the gutter […]
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A 25-year-old Zimbabwean man Lonias Jojo has allegedly axed his 72-year-old father and dumped the body in a disused mine shaft to save his marriage which his dead father was against. Jojo allegedly hatched a plan to kill his father, Luke Robert Jojo with his 18-year-old wife, Brenda Dube of Village 4 Greenspan, Chief Bvute […]
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Children in Nigeria spend more time than others in over 10 countries watching videos and listening to music online, the latest report by a global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky Lab, has shown. However, children from other African countries like South Africa, Egypt, and Algeria, were among the frontrunners in their visits to sites for music and […]
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