Nigeria – Benue: Benue APC women protest marginalization

 

Women from the All Progressive Congress, Benue State chapter, Monday staged a protest to the government house, Makurdi, over alleged marginalisation in governance.

Punchng reports that the women marched through Kashim Ibrahim road, stormed the government house with placards that carried different inscriptions such as, ‘appoint more women as appointees not just dancers and clappers,’ ‘APC, implement your manifestos,’ ‘give us 10 council chairmen, six deputies or no vote,’ ‘give us our rights as women,’ ‘women are critical stakeholders’, etc

Nigeria – Lagos: Man rapes his sister in Law

 

 A 47-year-old man, Magaji Mohammed, who allegedly impregnated his sister in-law through rape, was on Monday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

The accused, a driver who resides at 18, Atobaje St., Agege, a suburb of Lagos, is facing a two-count charge bordering on rape.

The prosecutor, Inspector Clifford Ogu, told the court that the accused committed the offence on November 2016 and February 28, 2017 in his residence.

Babies cry more in UK, Canada, Italy, least in Germany, Japan Denmark

 

Researched say babies cry more in Britain, Canada, Italy and Netherlands than in other countries, while newborns in Denmark, Germany and Japan cry and fuss the least.

In research looking at how much babies around the world cry in their first three months, released on Monday, psychologists from Britain have created the first universal charts for normal amounts of crying during that period.

Sunnewsonline reports that Dieter Wolker, who led the study at Warwick University, said: “babies are already very different in how much they cry in the first weeks of life.

“We may learn more from looking at cultures where there is less crying, (including) whether this may be due to parenting or other factors relating to pregnancy experiences or genetics.”

Ghana: Nigerian women arrested for forcing girls into prostitution

Two Nigerian women have been arrested for allegedly transporting six girls from Nigeria to Ghana in order to engage them in forced prostitution.

The suspects identified as Ify Mba, 33, and Amanda Eze Chioma, 23, were nabbed by men of the Baatsona Police Division in Accra.

The head of the police division, Chief Superintendent Felix K Cosmos, while briefing the media, said his men acting on tip-off, raided a hotel in Accra where the victims aged between 21 and 26 were being sexually exploited.

Nigeria - Maiduguri: how dog saved guests from suicide bomber

 

Many individuals were saved at a wedding party yesterday in Maiduguri, as a really young suicide bomber, who endeavored to explode a bomb at the service was attacked by a Dog.

Both the dog and suicide bomber passed on in the blast that came about because of the explosion of the bomb, taking after the Dog attack.

The incident occurred barely hours after the police in Borno confirmed that three suspected male suicide bombers were killed in separate foiled attacks at Muna and Dusuman village on the outskirt of Maiduguri.

Nigeria – Enugu: Catholic Church declare war against masqueraders

 

Catholic Church has declared war against masqueraders after beat a seminarian was beaten into coma by some masquerades.

In a message delivered on the pulpit by Bishop of Nsukka Catholic Diocese, Prof. Godfrey Onah, Masqueraders of Nigeria, you better are warned. The Catholic Church has declared war against you and has likened you to terrorists who should be dealt with by security agencies.

The masqueraders were part of the Oriokpa masquerade popular in eastern Nigeria.

Onah who condemned the masqueraders during church service, urged law enforcement agencies to treat those that block roads, beat, and extort money from people as terrorists and cultists.

Nigeria - Suleja: house girl claims his master impregnate her

 

According to report, a teenager claims that his master has impregnated her.

The man known as Mr. Okoronkwo Abel denied the allegation.

Reports also said that the man’s wife is also six months pregnant.

Despite pressures from the family of the girl that Abel should marry their daughter, the 42 year old Abel, said that he would not marry her insisting that the girl lured him to sleep with her when he came home drunk.

 “I will not marry her. No one will force me to marry her. How are you all sure that I am respon­sible for her three months pregnancy? She could be pregnant outside here and probably lured me to sleep with her to cover her deed. No way, I will not marry her, she is evil,” he said.

Nigeria: Teenager commit suicide in Sokoto

 

A 13-year-old student of Junior Secondary School has been found hang­ing in front of their house in the Damboa area of Sokoto metropolis. 

The remains of the teenager have been buried according to Islamic Rites.

The Police Pub­lic Relations Officer in the State, Mr El-Mustapha Sani, who confirmed the incident.

According to Authorityngr, a 16 year old teenager who was a friend of the disease has been arrested.

The suspect was said to have gone to the family house of the deceased and asked his mother to re­fund some money the de­ceased had stolen from his mother.