Friday, 21 October 2016

‘My husband abandoned me for refusing to abort pregnancy’


A 40-year-old housewife, Amudalat Afolabi, has told an Ilorin Area Court that her husband, Tajudeen, sent her packing because she refused to terminate a six-month-old pregnancy.

Grandma, 51, nabbed with heroin in Lagos


The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a grandmother, 51-year-old Monsurat Akinyemi at the Murtalla Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for being in possession of 180 grammes of heroin.

Woman spends four months trying to revive dead husband


Unable to cope with the death of her husband, a Russian woman reportedly spent at least four months trying to bring him back to life with the help of holy water and prayer.

Chickens forced to skip meals as cost of poultry feed rises by 100%


The recent increase in the cost of poultry feed in the country has been forcing farmers to ration food for their birds.

Findings have shown that the cost of ingredients for the composition of poultry feeds, particularly maize, has increased by 100 per cent.

I made N10, 000 daily for carrying robbers – Okada rider


Twenty-year-old Oluwole Sunday is not your average commercial motorcyclist.

In fact, the only thing “commercial” about his okada business is that while other okada riders transport members of the public from one point to another in the Lagos metropolis, he made his money by transporting robbers on their daily operations.

Doctors remove 40 knives from man’s stomach


A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation.