Day: September 22, 2018

Youths protest over mother of seven raped to death in Edo

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An employee of the Public Works Volunteers in Benin, Edo State, identified as Fred also known as Biggie, has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a mother of seven to death. The incident was said to have occurred at the Ramat Park axis, along the Benin-Agbor Road, in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state, on Thursday. The deceased, identified as Magdalene, was said to be a trader in the area and a mother of seven children. Angry youths barricaded the expressway with bonfires, grounding traffic and…

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Monkey pox: NCDC reports outbreak in 15 states

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76 cases of monkey pox has been reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) this year 2018. 37 have been confirmed with one probable and two deaths in 15 states. It named Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Nasarawa, Oyo, Abia, Anambra, Plateau and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja as the affected states. Its latest situation report on the disease released yesterday showed that Rivers with 34 cases, Bayelsa (20) and Cross River (9) have the highest number of confirmed cases since the…

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WHO says Alcohol kills over 3 million people yearly

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According to a new report by the World Health Organization, harmful use of alcohol is responsible for the death of around 3 million people per year. The UN health agency’s latest report on alcohol and health pointed out that alcohol causes more than one in 20 deaths globally each year, including drink driving, alcohol-induced violence and abuse and a multitude of diseases and disorders. The report, which comes out every four years, shows that about 2.3 million of those deaths in 2016 were among men and that almost 29% of…

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Driver arrested for loosing boss’s N5m car to prostitute

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Police has arrested a 54-year-old driver of the chairman of an outsourcing firm located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State, after a sex worker allegedly fled with his boss’ Kia Sorento sport utility vehicle valued at N5.4m. The prostitute, identified only as Nina, reportedly fled with the vehicle at a filling station in Ikoyi immediately the driver, Victor Dossa, came down to fuel it. It was learnt that Dossa, who lives on Ikoyi Crescent, usually took the vehicle to his house after taking his boss home at the close of…

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