Day: March 9, 2024

Mother arrested for poisoning one-year-old epileptic daughter

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A mother attempting to kill her sick child, using an insecticide has been arrested by police in Lagos. The Police spokesman in the state, Superintendent Benjamin Hundeyin, on Saturday said that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to the police on Friday. He said the chief security officer at the hospital reported to the police that the mother brought her one-year-and-seven-month-old daughter to the hospital for treatment. He added that the mother confessed to a doctor at the hospital that she gave the child an insecticide to…

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Emotions, as govs, Akpabio, Dangote, Peter Obi, Sanusi, others attend the Wigwe’s funeral

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It is an emotionally charged air at the funeral of the late Access Bank boss, Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba, and son, Chizi, at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Lion of Judah Parish, Isiokpi, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Tears welled up in many faces at the solemn occasion. Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Doreen, son, Chizzy, and former Managing Director of Nigerian Exchange Group, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, died in a helicopter crash in the US on February 9. Their bodies arrived in the country yesterday, for today’s…

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Joshua defeats Ngannou in a second-round KO

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Anthony Joshua has won his fourth straight fight by securing a second-round knockout win over Cameroonian boxer, Francis Ngannou, in the main event of the “Knockout Chaos” card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After securing consecutive victories in 2023 with wins over Jermaine Franklin in April and Robert Helenius with a seventh-round knockout in August, Joshua, in December, cruised to a fifth-round technical knockout win over Otto Wallin, who had been expected to be a formidable opponent, especially with his southpaw stance. Joshua has now secured knockout wins over two fighters…

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