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A teenage girl dug herself out of shallow grave after she was raped by two men and buried alive. The 13-year-old was snatched while walking to Koran lessons from her local village in Punjab and raped by the men in an isolated area. Her attackers then buried her alive when they thought that she had […]

An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered 20-year-old Oluyi Oba remanded over alleged rape of a five-year-old girl. The police prosecutor, Mr. Emmanuel David, told the court that the accused committed the offence on October 22 at 1p.m. in Iyin-Ekiti. He said the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Code Cap C 16, Laws of

  Sixteen months ago a car accident forever changed Mackenzie Gorden’s life. Doctors told her parents their 18-year-old daughter would never walk again. But Mackenzie was determined to prove them wrong, especially since she was asked to be the maid of honor at her sister Brittany’s wedding.  “I never accepted that I couldn’t walk again,”

“A girl who is pregnant at 14 is a girl whose rights have been violated and whose future is derailed. Childhood must never be derailed by motherhood…” Teen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year, according to a

  The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Dakuku Peterside, has said the country should be worried about its rising illiterate population. Peterside, in a statement yesterday, said a World Bank report on the situation should be taken seriously. Nigerians, the report said, “are relatively poor, with about 46 per cent of

  The Old Boys’ Association of Loyola College, Ibadan, has urged the Oyo State government to return missionary schools to their original owners. It said this would tackle the falling standard of education. The association’s National President, Dr. Benedictus Ajayi, spoke with reporters yesterday on the state of facilities at the college. He said the

  Anambra State Governor Peter Obi yesterday distributed 100 vehicles to secondary schools. He said it was in fulfilment of his promise to spend N40 billion on “the final push” towards accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Speaking yesterday at the Ekwueme Square in Awka, the state capital, Obi said his administration

Ghana’s public universities are facing a boom in applications, but do not have sufficient facilities to meet growing demand that has been exacerbated by an influx of students from neighbouring countries and a double cohort leaving school this year. As a result, admission to universities is no longer based on obtaining the required grades –

A Minna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced one Abubakar Abdullahi to 12 strokes of cane after pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a fowl. However, Magistrate Hassan Mohammed gave the accused an option of N5,000 fine. The police prosecutor, Sgt. Gunduma Ibrahim, had told the court that police men on patrol at Mobile

A 16-year-old girl (name withheld) has been reportedly hospitalised after she was allegedly raped to coma by some unknown men in  Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Our reporter gathered that the incident occurred at 8p.m. on Monday on her way back home from where she was sent on an errand. According  to a popular actress