The International Organization for the Family (IOF) has urged religious, political, social, and civic leaders across the world not to yield to external pressures on same-sex marriage.
When Sandra David, a 29-year-old staff of the Bank of Agriculture, was in March diagnosed with gall bladder complications requiring surgical correction, she asked for only a few days off work and headed for the Federal Staff Hospital, FSH, Abuja.
A man in Germany who pulled over to answer the call of nature had the misfortune of watching his brand-new car roll into a river, rescue services said on Thursday.
A 26-year-old driver, Emmanuel Egwuatu, who allegedly raped a 21-year-old girl, his co-domestic servant, on Wednesday appeared before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
A 55-year-old trader, Saidat Abu, on Thursday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that her husband was a flirt who impregnated her younger sister on two occasions.
Dogs have disappeared from the streets in Ekiti State following rise in the consumption of dog meat by residents, a check by the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, has shown.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman identified as Mama Emeka, for allegedly burning her stepsister with a hot iron.Though the incident occurred on Christmas Day at 36, Fadeyi Street, Olowora, the suspect was arrested yesterday following the intervention of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence team in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Social Development.
A consultant pathologist with the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Abduldeen Oluwanisola, has told an Oyo State High Court in Ibadan that haemorrhagic shock from stab wound killed Lowo Oyediran.
A Gudu Upper Area Court in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Wednesday ordered the remand of a 50-year-old man, Teacher Senior, of Area 11, Garki, for raping a five-year-old girl.
Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected fake soldier allegedly involved in stealing motorcycles, popularly known as okada, across the states in Nigeria.
A 27-year-old unemployed man, Williams Eromosele, on Wednesday appeared before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with theft of N9, 200 from the church offertory box.
A Gudu Upper Area Court in FCT, on Wednesday sentenced two men, Pallelu Abdullahi and Bello Yakubu to 12 weeks imprisonment for stealing solar energy panels.
A man climbed over the wall of a kindergarten school in south-western China and attacked 12 students with a knife, Chinese state media said on Wednesday.
A suspected serial burglar, Onyebuchi Chika, who had been terrorising residents of Awa Ijebu town and its environs in Ogun State, crossed over to the new year inside police cell as he was arrested by policemen in Ogun State Police Command on new year’s eve.
The leader of a robbery gang, whose members allegedly robbed and raped their victims around Charity Bus Stop in Oshodi area of Lagos State, has narrated how his gang raped nine women in the last two weeks.
Unidentified gunmen suspected to be members of cult groups have killed no fewer than eight people in Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
SIX persons, including a student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) were electrocuted in Mushin during the spontaneous celebrations ushering in the New Year last Sunday.
Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command at the weekend arrested Suleiman Seidu, 33, for allegedly attempting to kidnap a two-year-old boy, Chimdi Udwu, in Owode area of Ogun State.
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Sokoto State Command, seized 135 kilogrammes of cough syrup with codeine believed to be worth about N4 million, according to its Commander, Mr Misbahu Idris.
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja have discovered parcels of whitish substance that tested positive for cocaine weighing 9.15kgs inside the soles of shoes.
Four suspected members of a robbery gang, who allegedly raped nine women in Lagos State have been arrested by the Rapid Response Squad of the State Police command.
The 27-year-old woman, who was severely brutalised by her husband and even stabbed in the private part with a broken bottle, has narrated her own side of the story and what led to the beating.
A woman and her two children were on Thursday burnt to death after their family vehicle had an accident at the Ewekoro end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State.
A Togolese, Segun Sunday, has been apprehended by policemen attached to the Lagos State Special Task Force (Enforcement) Unit, in connection with land grabbing in Oko-Olomi, in the Ibeju-Lekki area of the state.
A 22-year-old Cameroonian, Joel Ludguo, is currently in police custody at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly killing his boss, Miss Temidayo Adeleke.
Ludguo was a cleaner and lived with the victim on Prince Tayo Adesanya Street, Park View Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos.
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Monday sentenced an Islamic cleric, Osupa Adini, to three months imprisonment for stealing and assault.
Adini, 49, was convicted on a six-count charge preferred against him by the state.
The Lagos State Police Command on Monday said it had recovered 15 different weapons and 18 vehicles from 33 armed robbery cases between November 18 and December 18.
Pregnancy causes “long-lasting” physical changes to a woman’s brain, with significant, but seemingly beneficial, grey matter loss in parts of the crucial organ, a study said Monday.
Some alterations lasted at least two years, they reported, but did not appear to erode memory or other mental processes.
A 30-year-old supervisor with Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, Emmanuel Peters, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for the alleged theft of N4.5m.
There was outrage on Sunday at Gwallameji, a suburb of Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital, after a dog was found eating a newborn baby abandoned at a rubbish dump.
A 21-one-year-old undergraduate of a university in Osun State, Rilwan Iyiola, said he created a route to the attic of his neigbhours’ apartment a day before he and his brother, Kazeem Iyiola, 19, robbed the victims.
A pastor at the Divine Yard Deliverance Ministry in Iyana Iyesi, Ota, Ogun State, Peace Udoh, has been arrested by the police for allegedly running a baby factory in the church.
A 100-level part-time student of a journalism institute, Falope Oluwole, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly duping no fewer than 33 men.
Oluwole, a 22-year-old undergraduate, was alleged to have posted the photo of a United States female makeup artist, Shayla, on his Instagram page, through which he duped the unsuspecting men who asked for a relationship.
A 30-year old man, Hammed Abubakar, on Monday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly forcefully having sexual intercourse with his 18-year-old girlfriend.
In working with couples, it is quite evident that men and women give different meanings to lovemaking. It is common, and not terribly surprising, that many women do not fully understand the nature of the sexual relationship from a man’s perspective.
A mob beat to death an elderly couple accused of witchcraft in eastern India, police said Saturday, the second such killing in the region in two weeks.
Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country.
Three persons, comprising two suspected kidnappers and a member of a private security outfit, Danga Security, lost their lives during a fierce gun battle between a combined team of policemen and men of the private security outfit in Bauchi State.