Godfrey George tells the story of how child maids suffer at the hands of ruthless employers amid laws against child labour and abuse. Mr. Henry Oyibio’s death hit his family like a thunderbolt. He was a large-scale farmer based in Benue State and father to four girls who were all under nine when he passed. […]
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Finally, justice on Tuesday came the way of the family of a Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, who was murdered in November 2021. An Osun State High Court passed a death sentence on an Ile-Ife hotelier, Ramon Adedoyin, and two of his staff, Bola Bamigbola writes. The already tense atmosphere […]
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Adeife and Akinola Twenty years after, two young and promising children were snatched away by the cold hands of death, the family said they might have died, but not forgotten. On April 20, 2003, Adeife, 14, and Akinola Sodipo-Akindeko, 10, were killed during an attack on the convoy of Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello. During their short […]
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Representative of Chief Imam leading other Muslim faithful in prayer at a burial; Photo: NAN By Afis Oladosu In the Name of the Almighty, the Beneficent, the Merciful Death, which you are running away from, will certainly catch up with you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible […]
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Oreoluwa Aina, a National Youth Service Corps member, was one of those who died on Thursday when a Lagos State Government staff bus collided with a train in the PWD area of the state. In this interview with Dayo Oyewo, her father, Femi Aina, speaks on her daughter’s plans after the service year. How did […]
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The face of Esther Abiona, a 19-year-old physically challengeded admission seeker, shone brightly when Sunday Punch visited her Magboro, Ogun State home on Saturday. One week after she lamented to this newspaper how her disability might have stood in her way of being registered for the 2023 United Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the Joint Admission and […]
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A member of the Jacksonites Alumni Association Worldwide, and daughter of the late Prof. P. C. Agba, Mrs. Yvonne Agba-Mefor, both of Mass Communications Department, University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, are calling on public spirited individuals and organisatins to come to her aid as she seeks financial assistance for the medical treatment of her husband, […]
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The family of Okeke Chinedu has appealed to the public for financial help to save their 10-year-old son, William Chukwuma Chinedu, who requires multiple surgeries worth about N7 million ($15,000) to save him from a stroke and a hole in the heart. Chinedu, who is currently awaiting surgeries, has spent five months at the hospital […]
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A retired soldier, Pa Saula Ajayi, 76, lost his 70-year-old wife, and valuables, including cash and vital documents, to a fire triggered by a gas explosion in the Ijela area of Abeokuta, Ogun State. The septuagenarian tells Daud Olatunji about the tragic incident and his loss: What is your name, age and what do you […]
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Bolani Michael, the mother of four boys, who died in a fire incident in their house in Ikorodu, Lagos, on June 26, in this interview with Olamide Famuwagun recounts the sad incident: Can you tell us what really happened that day? It was an unforgettable Sunday for me and my husband wasn’t around. I went […]
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