President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed profound sorrow over the tragic incident at the Children’s FunFair in Ibadan, which resulted in the loss of numerous young lives and left many injured. The President extended his heartfelt condolences to the Government and people of Oyo State, as well as to the grieving families who have lost Read More…
A few weeks ago, my daughter was assigned the task of giving a 5-minute charge in church, and she was encouraged to choose her preferred topic. So, I immediately got to work with her. Together, we listed five topics, and I allowed her to choose the one she was most comfortable speaking on. From time Read More…
A Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced Ademola Oladimeji to four life imprisonments for sexually assaulting his three children, aged five, seven, and nine. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the evidence of the respective prosecution witnesses was believable and truthful. The evidence established the offence of sexual assault by penetration and not Read More…
Deborah Adebisi, an 11-year-old girl from Makoko, expressed her excitement after a special outing organised by the Bread of Hope Foundation. She exclaimed, “I want to say a big thank you to our sponsors. I have never seen a place like this.” The Bread of Hope Foundation, through its Children of the Slum (COS) initiative, Read More…
The United Nations Children’s Agency, UNICEF, has announced its commitment to providing $270 million to support Nigeria’s endeavours in humanitarian aid and poverty alleviation. Executives from UNICEF, Christian Munduate and Eduardo Celades, conveyed this pledge during a meeting held on Tuesday. At the meeting in Abuja, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, Read More…
The shocking findings from a Save the Children International (SCI) report expose a deeply unsettling pattern of increasing school attacks and kidnappings across Nigeria. The report, titled “Education Under Attack: Review and Analysis of Attacks on Schools, Teachers, and Learners from the Kidnapping of the Chibok Girls, Borno, Nigeria, in 2014,” has disclosed that a Read More…
A REUTERS REPORT Nigerian artist Adebayo Ayodeji is targeting children to play traditional instruments like drums, which he worries could become extinct and erase an important aspect of the culture in Africa’s most populous country. In the megacity of Lagos, parents bring children to his twice-a-month drumming workshops to learn how to play drums and Read More…
A 28-year-old female serial kidnapper has been detained by police in Lagos State for allegedly abducting two children. In a statement released on Sunday in Ikeja, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesman for the police, confirmed the arrest. According to him, the suspect abducted a boy aged three in Lagos and a boy aged seven in Oyo Read More…
CONTEMPORARY AFRICA COMPRISES countries cobbled together by colonialists for their own interest. In the case of Nigeria, British colonialism was, as playwright Ola Rotimi would put it, in the service of their ‘female king’. The two hitherto distinct halves of Nigeria (Northern and Southern Protectorates) have managed to stay together as one country for one Read More…
New bill passed by Lagos State House of Assembly holds parents responsible for their children’s cult activities The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the Unlawful Societies and Cultism (Prohibition) Bill 2020. The house passed the bill during the plenary session on Monday through a voice vote conducted by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. Obasa Read More…
