ABEG.NG reports that the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital has recorded a new first. The hospital has now become the first public tertiary health institution in Nigeria to perform Ventricular Septal Defect closure. VSD is a type of heart procedure that closes a hole between the left and right ventricles of the heart. The procedure…
A Nigerian woman, said to be 34 years old, has been sentenced to a four-and-half years imprisonment by a court in Switzerland. The woman was jailed for trafficking young Nigerian women and girls between 2014-18 and enslaving them as s£x workers using juju threats. SwissInfo reported on Monday, June 26, 2023, that the mother of…
The leadership of the Nigeria Medical Students Association, NIMSA, has made accusations against the Cross River State government. The students lamented the Cross River State Government’s refusal to reach out to them following the loss of three of their members in a boat mishap. Speaking on Sparkling FM’s Let’s Talk Nigeria morning discourse programme, the…
The many inmates of Warri Custodial Centre, popularly known as Okere Prison, erupted in jubilation recently on Monday. They erupted in joy when one of the inmates, Miss Beauty Obi, an 18-year-old mother of two weeks old baby, was granted bail by the Chief Judge of Delta State, Hon. Justice Tessy Diai, on compassionate grounds….
The officers also recovered a general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) from the terrorist in a foiled attack on Ruwan Dorawa village in Dutsinma LGA, Katsina State. According to the spokesman, Katsina State Police Command, ASP Sadiq Abubakar, the incident occurred yesterday at about 11 am. Sadiq said the suspected terrorists, wielding dangerous weapons such as GPMG…
A 32-year-old man, Daniel Udoh has been ordered to be remanded at Olokuta Correctional Centre over s3xual abuse and exploitation of a 3-year-old girl. The order was given by a family Court sitting at Oke-Eda, in Akure, Ondo State. Udoh, who resides at No.5, Alayere Community, Oda Road area of Akure was charged on one…
Personnel of Osun Amotekun Corps have arrested a 27-year-old man, Oyelade Lukman for illegal possession of firearms. According to the Osun Amotekun Commander, Brigadier General Bashir Adewinmbi, the suspect was arrested in Ajijola Anabi Area, Ede, Osun State. The statement revealed that, “He was apprehended in the middle of the night after a complaint was…
In what will come across as a really startling development, a woman has dumped her one-month-old baby boy by a river in Kwara State. She dumped the baby on the banks of the Gurara River in Kuka community in Kwali Area Council of the FCT. A resident, Saidu Ibrahim, explained that a fisherman who went…
The gunmen, on Friday night stormed Iwo community in Isin LGA of Kwara State and killed a local chief, Raphael Adewuyi, and abducted three persons. A source explained that the gunmen attacked a filling station at the Sabaja area of the town and abducted the manager, a guard and a cleric with the Christ Apostolic…
ABEG.NG reports that Moses Paul, a serving police Inspector, who tried to kill his own colleague while on duty, in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, and cart away his rifle, has been nabbed. The state police command also burst a rail line vandalisation operation, impounded the conveyance truck and recovered exhibits. DSP Muhammad Jalige, the spokesman of…