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Smugglers yesterday, attacked officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Ogun State, burning down their patrol van. This is coming few days after Customs officers were attacked in Kaduna. In the attack at the Toll-gate end of Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, operational vehicle of the service was damaged and burnt beyond recognition. One of the affected officers who said he escaped death, said about five of his colleagues are missing in action. Narrating his ordeal, the officer who did not want his name mentioned for security reasons, said they were on…

Margaret Davou, a sixty-two-year-old woman, said to be Africa’s oldest In vitro fertilization (IVF) mom, yesterday gave birth to a healthy baby girl at the Gynaeville Specialist hospital, along old airport road in Jos, Plateau State, through caesarean section. The new mother, a retired civil servant, who lives in Jos South local government area of the state, said she has been married for 38 years without a child, adding that she made an attempt in the past to conceive through assisted-reproductive health but failed. The surgery was carried out by…

  A 47-year-old man, Blessing Olumakinde, has been sentenced to death by an Ado Ekiti High Court on Tuesday for killing his father, Benson Egunlae, over his inheritance. Handing down the sentence, the state Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, said the evidence before the court substantiated the allegation against the accused and found him guilty of murder. Justice Daramola opined that the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt hence the accused should be hanged by the neck until life goes out of him. The slain father of the…