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An unnamed female Grade R teacher at Bankfontein Combined School in Middelburg in South Africa has been fired after allegedly forcing a pupil as young as 4, to eat her own faeces, the Mpumalanga education department said on Wednesday. Reginah Mhaule from the Education Department said the teacher had refused to let the girl go […]

President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has sacked nine serving ministers. In a reshuffle that was carried out on Wednesday and announced to the ministers at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Jonathan dropped six senior and three junior ministers. They are:  the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru; the Minister

Police in Ondo State, yesterday, arrested three teenagers for attempting to kidnap an 11-year-old boy, Precious Kehinde, in Ondo. The teenagers, whose ages ranged between 13 and 15, were arrested by detectives acting on tip-off at Iparuku Street in Ondo town. Police source said that the report was brought by a youth leader in the

Police in Argentina have arrested a 19-year-old man accused of heading a gang of hackers who targeted international money transfer and gambling websites. Dubbed “the superhacker”, the teenager was making $50,000 (N8,120,000) a month, working from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, police say. The arrest operation shut down the power to the entire neighbourhood to

A 35-year-old man was sentenced to 14 years in jail yesterday for posing as US pop star, Justin Beiber online to lure children into sexual abuse. Robert Hunter, 35, was caught after a girl from Tasmania informed police. Officers found 800 videos from all over the world – some from boys as young as nine

Oyo State Police Command has arrested a man (names withheld) for allegedly raping a girl in Oluyole area of Ibadan. He was said to have been caught raping the girl in a bush. Our source gathered that the suspect allegedly lured the girl into the bush before forcefully having canal knowledge of her, while the

Many African parents yell or shout at their teenagers. A new longitudinal study has found that using such harsh verbal discipline in early adolescence can be harmful to teens later. Instead of minimising teens’ problematic behaviour, harsh verbal discipline may actually aggravate it. The study, from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has donated cheques totalling N1.46 billion to mission primary schools for infrastructural development. Presenting the cheques in Awka, Obi commended the Church for their support in rebuilding the schools and urged them to remain steadfast in their support for government activities. He said his administration was making “final push”

A 22-year-old undergraduate of Caleb University, Lagos, Ugochukwu Agudosi, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, Lagos, for allegedly raping a lady in an uncompleted building in Ikeja metropolis. Agudosi, who is facing a four-count charge bordering on rape, was docked before Magistrate Sule Hamsat, Monday. Prosecutor, Inspector Roman Unuigbe, said that the offence

A Chinese woman lied to her daughter for over a decade and told her that she was not her real mother – in an effort to cultivate the girl’s independent spirit. A woman surnamed Shen, a resident of China’s Shenyang city, married a wealthy man and had a young daughter named Cheng Cheng, Shenyang Evening