The Lagos State Government said on Thursday that it had rescued no fewer than 25 children from a suspected child trafficker in Egbeda area of the state. Alaba Fadairo, Director, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, told journalists in Ikeja that the children were rescued at an illegal orphanage on August 17. “Government officials in collaboration

  The federal government Thursday distributed N100 billion to 59 public universities as its first intervention fund for the provision of critical infrastructure in the  institutions. It also appealed to the Academic Staff  Union of  Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike and allow resumption of activities in the ivory towers. But its plea may have not

  Five university students were, yesterday, docked at an Abeokuta  magistrate’s court  for  allegedly belonging to a secret cult. The  accused are Opeyemi Fakeye, 28; Samuel Popoola, 28; Oladejo Musiliu, 20; Christian Dada, 25; and Mustapha Disu, 28. They are from various institutions. The accused who were not represented by any counsel, are facing a four-count

  At least 23 young pregnant girls have become the victims of the use of native concoction for abortion in only one year. It has been learnt that teenage girls within some communities in Agbor, Kwale, Isoko North and South who became pregnant and were desperate to do away with the pregnancies, sought the help

  Two Cypress families were frantically searching from Houston to San Antonio for their missing teen daughters. Liana Andrews, 16, and Kacie Watson, 14, are church friends and vanished on Friday night. Liana’s grandmother was watching the pair and went to bed. “Liana and Kacie were both in Liana’s bedroom on the phone giggling,’ said

  Graduates have taken over most car wash businesses in Kaduna metropolis to end their endless search for formal jobs. A correspondent who went round the city reports that the operators were making brisk business and smiling to the banks. Julius Samba, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri, who operates a car wash centre