Crime

An NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation), 'Land of Hope' in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, has disclosed a hidden problem prevailing in the country of accusing children of being witches.

Nigeria: Police officers in Anambra have found a hotel in the Nkpor area where children between the ages of 14 to 17 were being used as sex slaves and prostitutes as well as in baby factory. The hotel management collected money on their behalf and let men to sleep with them for a charge.

Nigerian soldiers have located one of the more than 200 schoolgirls that were kidnapped by the operatives of Boko Haram almost eight years ago in the northeast region, stated the military.

A couple of Nigeria have put on hold their wedding celebrations after gunmen kidnapped at least 29 guests going back home from the ceremony.

A preliminary report by the Bar Beach Police Division said trouble started when popular Nigerian singer and his five police escorts visited the nightclub around 4 am on June 8.

A three-day mourning period was declared by the Owo State Government on Monday, June 13, in honour of the victims of the terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State.

Nigerian security authorities accused extremists from Islamic State's affiliate in West Africa were behind the brutal attack on a Catholic Church in which dozens of people, including women and children, were killed last week.

The mother of a nine-year-old girl, Favour Azubuike, who was burnt allegedly with a hot iron in Biacasa, Abuja, in April, has filed a complaint about the mishandling of the case and release of the suspect by the police.

Residents of the Adara community in the southern region of Kaduna State have stated that over 32 people died in an alleged helicopter-aided attack by the terrorists, who also demolished houses, including Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in the region.