Man accused of raping 12-year-old girl four times

Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Yakubu Alkali

Like any observant parent, Mrs. Kehinde Oduntan became concerned when she wanted to wash the clothes of her children and noticed what looked like semen in her 12-year-old daughter’s underwear.

Why did you do this to us? Why did you let us down?

Ngozi Okonjo Iweala

AN OPEN LETTER TO Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

I would have wanted to also address in this letter, Mrs. Diezani Allison Maduekwe and Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, but, since Nigerians don’t really know who you people are, except that Mrs. DAM was one of the top-staff in Shell, and is the First Minister of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria at least according to her twitter page (@diezanimadueke).

The Menace of Young Prostitution in Nigeria

Prostitutes in front of a gogo bar in Pattaya, Thailand

They are virtually everywhere: at street corners; behind residential homes; inside their school hostels, in front of highbrow hotels, bars, shops, restaurants and other public places. They are the new female hustlers who debase womanhood without any qualms.

Lady sexually abused, filmed for alleged BlackBerry theft

Barely two months after the gang-rape video of an unidentified female by five men suspected to be students of Abia State University was circulated on the internet and invoked nationwide condemnation, Nigerians on social networks and bloggers have continued to react to another video and pictures of an unidentified lady stripped and recorded by men who accused her of stealing a BlackBerry.

Suspected ritualist nabbed in Calabar

DUSK was setting in and the boy and his 10-year-old sister who hawked bananas around Ibok Street near Marian Market in Calabar, Cross River State, were on their way home.

Strange world: Man cuts off infant brother’s arm

Etimbuk

When Etimbuk John was born two weeks ago, the expectation of his parents was that people around him would show him love and affection.

FG appeals to Libyan rebels to stop killing Nigerians

Libyans jubilate at fall of Gaddafi. Photo: EPA

The Federal Government on Thursday described the reported killings of Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans in Libya as worrisome, asking the country’s Transitional National Council to put an end to it.

Arresting MASSOB leaders is a wrong signal

MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike

Maybe the Federal Government has other reasons for arresting the leaders of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). But if it is for gathering to honour their heroes, then something is wrong.

UNICAL violence: ASUU, Police trade words

University of Calabar main gate entrance

The local branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in the University of Calabar, Cross River State, on Wednesday, blamed the police for their lackadaisical attitude in responding to calls made to them shortly before students of the institution went on the rampage last week.

Libyan rebels killing Nigerians, other black Africans

Libyan rebels killing Nigerians, other black Africans

Reports out of Libya say that rebels of the National Transition Council are killing black Africans.

UN Office bombing: Boko Haram names bomber

Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim

Outlawed Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has named the bomber of the United Nations building in Abuja as a 27-year-old Nigerian, Mohammed Abul Barra.

Deadly Floods: 102 die in Ibadan – Red Cross

Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi

Friday’s flooding in Ibadan, Oyo State killed at least 102 people, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

'Gaddafism': Who is next to go in Africa?

Another tyrant from the Maghreb States, in the northern end of the African continent, has been ousted. Who is next?

Libya crisis: Colonel Gaddafi vows to fight on, as countries rally round NTC

Saif al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he speaks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Paul Hackett

(BBC) - Libya's fugitive ex-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says he will continue to fight his enemies, in an audio message carried by a loyalist TV channel.

Massob raises alarm over bomb threat

Flag of the Republic of Biafra

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by Boko Haram to bomb the venue of the South-East Economic Summit in Enugu on Thursday.

2face Idibia reported 'dead' in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Innocent Ujah Idibia

2face Idibia whose real name is Innocent Ujah Idibia was reported to have died yesterday morning in the Turks and Caicos Islands after a jet ski accident.