Tag: child
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[Video]Child falls into a well, rescued alive by a brave man
A young child that fell into a deep well was today, rescued alive by a brave man. In a video that has surfaced online, the man who jumped into the well, tied a rope around the child which those outside the well used in pulling the child out. upon the rescue, the child was laid…
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Signs a child is being sexually abused or molested – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By OZIOMA ONYENWEAKU By their nature It is not easy for a child to walk up to the parents and say I am being sexually abused by so so and so person. Even children who are naturally bold and would want to muster up courage to speak out about the abuse would have been silenced…
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Child found dead in plane at airport
A child stowaway was found dead Wednesday in the undercarriage of a plane at a Paris airport, officials said, having probably frozen to death or asphyxiated on the flight from Ivory Coast. The child, aged around 10, had clambered into the underbelly of the Air France Boeing 777 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It took off…
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Comedian Ajebo welcomes first child with wife
Popular comedian and media personality, Emeka Erem better known as Ajebo, has welcomed his first child with Uchechi Kalu, his wife. The entertainer took to his Instagram page on Friday to share a series pictures of himself and his wife, including one where he’s seen bearing the infant in his arms while in the maternity…
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Police rescue six-year-old child sold for N100,000 to ritualist
The Police Command in Anambra on Monday paraded one Monday Onyikwa from Umuefi Village, Nteje in Oyi Local Council Area for allegedly selling a six-year- old girl for ritual purposes. CP Rabiu Ladodo, who briefed newsmen in Awka, said the suspect was arrested in the bush with the victim, Chisom Egbunu. Ladodo said Onyikwa confessed…
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800m Salah trek: Stop treating Buhari like a child learning to walk – PDP tells presidential aides
Nigeria’s main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned presidential aides not to ridicule the nation by portraying its president like a child just learning to walk. The party was reacting to claims by the president’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu that President Muhammadu Buhari trekked a distance of 800 miles from his country home in…
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Man flogged 80 times for drinking alcohol as a child
Amnesty International has condemned the Iranian authorities for publicly flogging a man who was convicted of consuming alcohol when he was 14 or 15. Local media published photographs of the man – identified only as “M R” – being given 80 lashes in a square in the eastern city of Kashmar on Tuesday. Prosecutors say…
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I lost my child, mum, business to Libya – Nigerian Returnee
“It has not been easy at all. I had a flourishing hairdressing business before I went to Libya. But, I have lost everything. I also lost my mother and my 11-year-old son, while I was away. When they could not connect with me, my mother died of heart attack, while my son died because there…
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Gender inequality: Akeredolu’s wife advocates for equal treatment for girl, boy child
The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has advocated for equal treatment of male and female children in all strata to forestall societal ills and inequality meted to female folks. Mrs Akeredolu made the call at inauguration of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo Female Staff Association in Ondo West Local Government area.…