Tuesday 10 May 2016

Catholic church weds 109 couples in Nasarawa


The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lafia, Nasarawa State, Most Reverend Mathew Audu, wed 109 couples in Masakaon Saturday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Tension, as soldiers kill pregnant woman in Warri

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A pregnant woman, hit with the bayonet of a rifle by an angry soldier, died, yesterday’s morning at Effurun, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.

Horror: Rejected suitor butchers MTN worker, stabs victim’s mother


The tragic incident of Sunday, April 24, was one that the family of Ashinwo, did not see coming.

Had a prophet told Oluwatosin, her siblings and their widow mother, of the danger that lurked around the corner that day, it is unlikely they would have believed it.

I regret ever coming to Lagos – 11-year-old girl brutalised by aunty


When her dream of coming to Lagos eventually took shape and she found herself in Nigeria’s commercial capital about two years ago, 11-year-old Okenya Amaka said her joy knew no bounds, as that was all she had always wanted, based on the sweet things she had heard about Lagos.

Woman sentenced to 100 years for cutting baby from stranger’s womb


A judge in Colorado has sentenced a woman to 100 years in prison for cutting an eight-month-old baby from a stranger’s womb with kitchen knives, local media reported.