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INHERITANCE DRAMA:  Widow purchases baby to claim husband’s property On Kindly Share This Story: …Six-month old baby widow presented to late husband as his was bought for N600,000, accused tells detectives By Joseph Erunke A 45 year-old man accused of collaborating with a widow to abduct a 6-month old baby for illicit act has told police detectives investigating the issue that the prime suspect, Mrs Stella Ekwerekwu, bought the baby she presented to her late husband at his sick bed as their biological child for N600,000. Stella’s husband, Victor Ekwerekwu, a business mogul had reporte...

How 2 sisters are changing Child Rights’ Act narrative with book On By Dirisu Yakubu THEIR exposure to the incredible mileage of newspapers very early in life prepared them for the noble cause they’ve been championing in the past few years. For Theresa Okparame Onokpasa and Lydia-Mary Orume Onokpasa, nothing justifies the endless incidences of child rights violations Nigeria has become infamous for. Aware of the premium placed on the lives of children, particularly in advanced nations of the world, the teenage sisters set out quite early in life to drum awareness on the need to protect c...

Court Remands Rivers Varsity Worker For Abducting, Sexually Abusing 16-Year-Old Girl The 45-year-old suspect was said to have organised some boys to abduct the victim at gunpoint from Aluu in the Ikwerre Local Government Area to Rumuakwunde in the Emohua LGA of the state, where he allegedly serially abused her. by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 16, 2021 A Chief Magistrate sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, remanded a security worker with the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Mgbechi Wekwa, for sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl.  The 45-year-old suspect was said to have...

NANCY LEIFER, CLARE KEARNS and MARGARET BRENTWOOD On Jan. 18 we commemorate the civil rights achievements of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. This year we can also commemorate the late Congressman John L. Lewis by asking our Congressional delegation to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA). Martin Luther King, Jr., worked tirelessly to pass the 1965 Voting Rights Act, considered to be the most effective piece of federal civil rights legislation ever enacted. It prohibited racial discrimination in voting and secured the right to vote of racial minorities, incl...

Womanifesto, NRHJN call for justice in sexual harassment case On By Sola Ogundipe The Feminist Womanifesto and the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of Nigeria, NRHJN, have charged the Ogun state government to thoroughly investigate an alleged case of sexual harassment by Miss Barakat Melojuekun, against the state’s Commissioner of Environment, Mr. Saheed Abudu Balogun, In separate open letters, the two organisations called for justice even as they acknowledged the intervention of the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, who has suspended the Commissioner and ordered the Police to probe...