Tag: Children
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Gas cylinder blast kills 5 children
At least five children were killed after a gas cylinder being used to inflate toy balloons exploded in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Wednesday, police and firefighting officials said. Speaking with newsmen, Mohammad Rasel, an official at the Fire Service and Civil Defence department, said that the cylinder went off as a vendor inflated the…
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25 children with Boko Haram links released by military
A total of 25 children, 23 boys and two girls, who have had links with Boko Haram, were released by the military to the United Nations Children’s Fund and officials of Borno State Government. The children, who had been placed under the military’s administrative custody, were released after they had been cleared of ties with…
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Parents now sell children for cheap ransom to survive under Buhari’s govt – Ozekhome
Lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has lamented the sorry state of affairs in Nigeria which clocked 59 years on Tuesday, saying the citizens now live like walking corpses due to poverty and hunger in the land. He further said parents now sell their children to survive in a country which was once the biggest economy in…
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Torture school: Police arrest seven suspects, handover 300 rescued children to Kaduna Govt
The Kaduna State Police Command said it had handed over to the state government the 300 inmates of a rehabilitation centre at Rigasa in Kaduna, rescued on Thursday. Parents of some of the children had disputed police claims that the inmates were being abused and held against their wish. The Command Public Relations Officer, DSP…
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Suicide: Stop placing unrealistic expectations on your children – FG tells parents
The Federal Government on Saturday called on parents to be patient with their children and wards in their academic performances to reduce the wave of suicide. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Sonny Echono, made the call at the 11th annual Speech/Prize Giving Day and Valedictory Service of the Federal Science and Technical…
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Where did you travel to – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido It is unbelievable how man has decided to complicate this simple life that God created. It actually started in the Garden of Eden where two naked adults, male and female, did not even know they were naked until they dabbled into forbidden territory. Today’s article is another example of how wo(man) complicates…
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Abuja school bursar arrested for raping, impregnating pupil
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have arrested the Bursar of the Government Secondary School, Dangara, Abaji, in the Federal Capital Territory, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old pupil. The 51-year-old suspect, Mr Gabriel Ekundayo, who hails from Ilorin, Kwara State, allegedly lured the victim to his house and drugged her…
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Seven children missing after vehicle falls into canal
No fewer than seven children went missing on Thursday after a vehicle carrying 29 people fell into a canal in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said. According to the police, 22 people were rescued from the canal and search for the missing ones was underway. The accident took place in the morning in…
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Nigeria tops list of global unvaccinated children
Nigeria is on top of the list of global unvaccinated children with about 4 million children missing out in the first dose of the measles vaccines, the United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. The global agency said Nigeria has the highest number of children under one year who missed out on the first dose,…