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child marriage

Nigeria ranks 11th highest in child marriage — Report

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, on Wednesday said Nigeria ranked 11 among the 20 countries in the world with highest prevalence of child marriage. Mr Edward Kallon, UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, said this at the ongoing UN Women Conference 2018 in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria

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Auta Dogo

Housewife cuts 12-yr-old houseboy with razor blade

A 32-year-old housewife, Abimbola Oreoluwa, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Ondo State Command, for inflicting razor blade injuries and pouring hot water on her 12-year-old houseboy. The suspect was arrested following complaints from a good samaritan of the alleged maltreatment of the houseboy. ICYMI: WHY IS HE STILL ALIVE?

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Bowen University

Bowen University: There wasn’t any fire in the boy’s hostel ― Registrar

Some students of Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, have staged a protest against the directive of the management that they must undergo a drug test. The management is, however, insisting that the affected students must face disciplinary action. Videos of an inferno from one of the rooms on the first floor of the boy’s hostel

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Third Mainland Bridge

Fayose survives road accident on Third Mainland Bridge

Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, was involved in an accident on Wednesday on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State. Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, disclosed this via his Twitter handle after the incident occurred. He, however, said the former governor was in a stable condition and receiving medical treatment. Olayinka’s tweet read,

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Pedophile

WHY IS HE STILL ALIVE? Nigerians react as police let pedophile walk

Jungle justice is bad, in fact, it is very, very, very bad, but some offences are just too huge to ignore and that is why some Nigerians call for jungle justice on a pedophile that reportedly raped a three-year-old in Rivers. That is demonic, yeah? But on the flipside, some policemen in Rivers State, allegdely

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Olaotan

I’LL PAY IT ALL: Otedola agrees to pay actor, Victor Olaotan’s bills ― RMD

Looks like respite has finally come the way of popular Nollywood actor, Victor Olaotan, who had been constraint to the sick bed after an accident two years ago as billionaire, Femi Otedola, agrees to foot all of his bills, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD) has revealed. ICYMI: INVESTIGATION: Inside Ogoniland where oil spill wipes off ‘10 persons

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Xmas

Family’s bid to win best Xmas lights competition goes wrong

A family’s attempt to win their neighbourhood Christmas lights competition ended up causing panic when a passer-by thought a man was stuck on their roof. The Heerlein family in Austin, Texas, decided to recreate the decoration scene in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, complete with a hanging Clark Griswold. ICYMI: (VIDEO): Man beats lady, strips her naked

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pollution

(VIDEO): Meet 11-year-old girl on a mission to clean up pollution in Lagos

“There is no such thing as waste, every waste can be reduced, reused and recycled,” says an 11-year-old girl, Misimi Isimi, who is on a mission to save Lagos of environmental waste. Speaking to BBC, Isimi also known as “Miss Environment” lamented on how annoying Nigerians dispose waste in Lagos and her efforts to rid

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El-Rufai

PDP rented crowd from Niger Republic for Sokoto rally ― El-Rufai alleges

Nair el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says the crowd at the launch of the campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto state on Monday were “rented supporters from Niger Republic”. El-Rufai said this while delivering a keynote address at the launch of the campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at Murtala

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