An Egor Magistrates’ Court in Benin, the Edo State capital, on Monday sentenced one Eric Lelekuma to 12 years imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old girl.
The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, has urged employers of labour to create more liberal working conditions for pregnant women and nursing mothers that will allow them undertake proper breastfeeding of their babies.
The police in Lagos have arrested a suspected fraudster, Happy Eguakun, and an official of Ecobank Nigeria Plc, Hillary Ejechi, for allegedly attempting to divert a project fund of the Obanliku Local Government Area, Cross River State.