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A woman, Chinyere Nwosu, found with a two-week-old baby boy and discovered not to be his mother, said that she decided to pay N500,000 to a prostitute to care for a baby she wanted to get rid of even at seven months or abandon at birth…

Wife of Bolu Bamidele, Ifeoluwa, who set her husband ablaze last Tuesday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, for having a child out of wedlock, has committed suicide by poisoning herself. Ifeoluwa, whose remains were brought to the…

Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested a woman, Miss Chinwendu Umegbaka, aged 29 years, for allegedly stealing her neighbour's three-year-old girl. The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, who…

Colombia has made history after electing a black woman as its Vice President. Ten per cent of the population identify as Afro-descendants in the country. Environmental activist and feminist Francia Marquez will serve alongside…

An Ekiti Customary Court sitting in Ikole-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has dissolved a seven-year-old marriage between Ms Dolapo Ayegbusi and her husband, Mr Sunday Emmanuel. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the court president, Mr…

A woman, Bisola Idowu, has instituted a divorce suit against her husband, Ayinla Idowu, at Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, alleging that he was nonchalant about their child’s welfare and fond of fighting her. Bisola…

The gruesome deaths of a 26-year-old woman and two of her children in Bauchi have been confirmed by the State Police Command during a fire disaster that engulfed their house in Yelwa area of the metropolis opposite the Yelwa Police…

A woman in Vilnius, Lithuania, had to phone police for help after being held captive by her husband, who thought she had coronavirus, in their bathroom, UKMirror reports. A woman was held captive in her bathroom after her husband became…

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded one 26-year-old Raheem Muideen, who allegedly robbed a woman of belongings worth N1.1 million at gunpoint. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A. O. Akinde did not take the plea of Muideen as…

A woman was on Sunday morning crushed to death in Lokoja, Kogi by an articulated vehicle conveying tomatoes to the Eastern part of the country. According to an eyewitness account, the accident happened close to the confluence Beach hotel…