L-R: Pupil’s mother, The school Chrisland Schools, Lagos State, has denied allegations that a 10-year-old primary six pupil was raped during the school’s participation in the World School Games at Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The female pupil was among 76 pupils that represented the school at the event, which was held between March 8 and […]
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More than 200 babies could have survived had they been given better care at birth, a damning report into Britain’s biggest maternity scandal said on Wednesday, prompting a government apology. The report listed a catalogue of repeated failings at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust over a 20-year period from 2000 to 2019. Babies […]
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Multiple award-winning Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has warned critics against talking down on his children. This is as the Aye crooner took to his Twitter page on Monday evening to lash out at a critic who threw shade at his son, Ifeanyi. The Twitter user had faulted the singer for using […]
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Oyo State Government has inaugurated Environmental and Social Safeguard teams in the State to ensure that out-of-school children captured and re-enrolled in the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) programme are taught in child-friendly environments without any form of threat. Speaking at a two-day orientation training for the newly constituted local environmental and social […]
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• Govt woos pupils, parents with feeding, cash Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has said the prevailing insecurity in the North is taking its toll on Federal Government’s out-of-school programme. He said the programme may not achieve its objectives unless the current security challenges are tackled. The governor spoke in Minna, the state capital, […]
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Hanifa, a five-year-old pupil of Nobel Kids School at Kwanar Dakata in the Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State, was recently allegedly kidnapped and killed by the proprietor of the school and two others. In this interview with Ted Odogwu, the father of the victim, Abubakar Abdulsalam, narrates the ordeal and trauma the family […]
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As 10-year-old Miriam Chuwkwu and her parents would dress today in radiant attires specially made for the celebration of the Yuletide and make merry, Miracle Nana, a nine-year-old kid and his three siblings who reside in Boola, a slum in the Ikosi Isheri Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, would be confined to their […]
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The United States (U.S.) Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the Community Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission (cPMTCT) programme in Lagos to support a healthier population in Nigeria. Speaking at the launch of the programme in Lagos, U.S.-CDC Country Director, Dr. Mary Adetinuke Boyd, highlighted the U.S. mission’s goal of […]
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A school in Riyom Local Council Over 10, 000 children used yearly as child labourers in farmhouses in remote forests of Oyo, Ogun, Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, Kwara, Ondo and Edo states Families in Benue and Plateau states are offering their children to be trafficked for cheap labour in Oyo, Ogun, Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, Kwara, Ondo […]
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Osun State Government has rescued a seven-year-old girl gruesomely abused by her father’s sister (aunt) who has been acting as her foster parent. The rescue operation was carried out by the State Ministry of Women, Children and Social Affairs in collaboration with the Osun State Police Command. The Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, […]
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