2019 elections: Interfaith group sues for peace

As Nigerians prepare for general elections next Saturday, February 23, 2019 , a group known as The Interfaith Youth and Peace Building of Nigeria has called on youths in the country to avoid actions that is capable of promoting violence during and after the elections. The group stressed that the country needs peace in no...

Escape to Europe: Sad stories from Sahara

Chigozie EffeMigration to Europe for most youngsters especially in developing and undeveloped countries is majorly a topmost priority for them.This is due to largely the high rate of poverty which has become the lot of these nations. In an effort to find answers to this challenge, the alternative seems to be illgeal migration as they...

A trip to isolated community of Taraba

Chigozie EffeThe discovery of an isolated community now known as NGADA by the Taraba State Government has left many in shock of it's existence in this modern age.AIT's Lamini Chuyeh visited the community to take a look at how they live without the necessities of the modern world, and what the elevation of the community...

Land lady’s son flees after raping tenant’s 5 year old daughter

A 23-year-old boy identified as Sunkanmi Akinsero, is currently on the run and has been declared wanted by the Ikotun Police Division in Lagos, for defiling a 5-year-old girl through the anus and vagina. According to a report by PMexpress, the incident happened at No. 47 Erede Street, Ekerube in Abaranje area of Ikotun. It...

Pope Francis celebrates historic Papal Mass in#UAE

ABU DHABI: Tens of thousands of Catholics and several thousand Muslims attended an unprecedented public celebration of Mass on Tuesday by Pope Francis, the first pontiff in history to visit the Arabian Peninsula.The gates of Sheikh Zayed Sports City Stadium were opened at 5 a.m. to allow for the vast numbers of faithful to arrive...

Bassa Kuomo: Village Where Babies Are Buried With Dead Mothers

TOYIN ADEBAYO ABUJA – “I had all my children at home with the assistance of traditional birth attendants (TBAs). Luckily, there were no complications, and so I am alive with my children. However, many women in this community who developed complications and died during childbirth were buried with their children, dead or alive,” said a...

Hotel Workers Murdered Owner, Manager

The owner of Etashol Hotel and Suites, located on Budland Street in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos State, Mrs Abimbola Olusola, and the manager, Tunji Omikunle, have been murdered. PUNCH Metro gathered that the deceased were drugged, tied up and strangled by a gang that included some workers at the hotel. Olusola, who had...

Nigerian migrant commits suicide in Italy

A 25-year-old Nigerian man, Prince Jerry, took his own life on Monday, January 28 2019, by jumping under a train in Tortona, Genoa, Italy after his request for a residency permit for humanitarian reasons was rejected, Monsignor Giacomo Martino, the head of association Migrants, said on Thursday. Martino, who is in charge of the association...

Onnoghen: Buhari desecrated Supreme Court with Justice Onnoghen suspension- Kukah

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been acting in gross disobedience to court orders with flagrant disregard to rule of law while launching attacks on the media. Kukah who made this assertion in a lecture delivered at the 70th Anniversary of the Nigerian...

Clock thicks faster for Baby Benia, needs #15million to stay alive

Chigozie EffeLike a thunderstorm the result of Baby Benia diagnosis which revealed he had a hole in heart hit the the family of Mr and Mrs Monday Agoboye as it rendered everyone helpless and heart broken.It was gathered that he was diagnosed of Pulmonry Cardiovascula tri and urgently needs N15 million to carry out a...