Some lecturers of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, under the auspices of the Coalition for Transparency, have petitioned the Minister of Education and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), claiming that a former Dean of the school’s Law Faculty, Professor Nuhu Mohammed Jamo, embezzled N16m which was donated by the alumni to the faculty. The petition signed by Dr. Armiya’u Dingyadi Umar accused the former dean who served between 2010 and 201 of handing over only N400,000 to his successor, and also that he didn’t account for 20 desktop computers donated by the Federal Capital Territory High Court, as well as two new photocopiers and a set of five white leather settees for the Dean of Law’s office that were received as donations from alumni. The sum of N4m released to Prof. Jamo by the bursar as faculty-specific charges in 2011 for faculty development was also converted by the former dean to his personal use. According to the petitioners, efforts to get Prof Jamo ...

More facts emerged yesterday on how the bloody attack on Dogon Dawa village near Birnin Gwari town in Kaduna State was executed, leading to the death of no fewer than 25 people. The Chief Imam of Dogon Dawa community, Malam Muhammad said he took cover inside some old tyres that were abandoned near the mosque and watched how the gunmen numbering about a 100, shot and killed early morning worshippers who were coming out of the mosque at dawn. “The killers were saying they came to make real their threat, they shot and killed even children; it was sad indeed,” he said. Also speaking to newsmen, the traditional title holder of Danlawan Birnin Gwari in Dogon Dawa, Alhaji Abdurauf who could not hide his anger said, a former governorship aspirant, Alhaji Shuaibu Mikati, had earlier alerted the police to the threats to life and property in the area by armed bandits but nothing was done until the dawn attack on Sunday which had turned the entire area into deep sorrow and mourning. According...

Zamfara State Police Command has said that two supected members of a syndicate that specialized in kidnapping and trading in human parts have been killed during a raid on their hideout. Malam Usman Gwary, Zamfara State Commissioner of Police stated on Monday at a press briefing in Gusau, the state capital that a 5-year-old girl was rescued in the raid. According to Gwary, the two suspects were killed in a cross fire with the police along the Sokoto-Gusau highway. The suspects had earlier been intercepted as they tried to negotiate the sale of the 5-year-old girl in Zamfara, after the police acted on a tip-off. NAN reports that the suspected criminals abducted the girl from a private school in Imo state sometime last week. The police commissioner said the girl was to be delivered for sale to another syndicate in Niger Republic through the Sokoto-Zamfara boarder. He addded that the police were ready to get back the kidnapped girl through a phony purchase deal after being informed th...

The Hong Kong billionaire playboy who offered nearly £40 million to any man who could turn his homosexual daughter straight, has now said that he hopes the ‘change’ will come naturally. When Cecil Chao found out about his daughter Gigi’s marriage to her partner of eight years, he publicly denied the union and retorted by offering 500 million Hong Kong Dollars to the man who could convince her to marry him. The 76-year-old property magnate has now accepted 33-year-old Gigi’s ‘gay tendencies’ but has made some heavy hints that he wants her to ‘re-consider her choice’. ‘I’m not saying that she’s not okay to be gay,’ Cecil Chao told ABC News 20/20. ‘I mean it’s her own choice and her own tendency, but she should make sure she knows what she wants. Maybe what she wants today is different [than] what she wants in the future.’ Ms Chao married her long-term partner Sean in a church ceremony in Paris earlier this year, but it was not until news of their union was printed in the Hong Kon...

At age 11, Ghulam was married off to 40-year-old Jaiz in a rural Afghan village, making her only one of more than 10 million young girls who are being forced to wed men old enough to be their fathers or grandfather every year. In an effort to start a global conversation about the devastating effects of early marriages, which are currently practiced in more than 50 developing countries, the United Nations designated October 11 as International Day of the Girl Child this year. To mark the occasion and draw attention to the problem of child brides, photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair teamed up with National Geographic to create a series of heart-breaking photos depicting girls as young as five years old being married off to middle-aged men in countries like India, Yemen and Ethiopia. Although child marriage is against the law in many countries, and international treaties forbid the practice, it is estimates that about 51 million girls below age 18 are currently married, often under ...

A baby boy suspected to be eight-day-old was found wrapped inside a bag and abandoned at a cemetery in Kakuri, Kaduna South local government area of Kaduna State yesterday. The boy, who had maggots coming out from every opening on his body, was still alive, according to two good Samaritans who located him in the area. Mr. Robert Ogbole, a student of Bayero University Kano and Miss Grace Yahaya, a Kaduna State athlete who found the baby, narrated their experiences to newsmen at the Kakuri police station where it was taken to after receiving first aid at a nearby hospital in Kakuri. Ogbole said: “I was at home at about 11: 30 am when my younger brother (Mike), who passed through the cemetery to the football field came with a report that he heard the sound of a baby inside a bag at the cemetery. So, I quickly called my neighbour (Grace), and we ran to the place. “On getting there, we found this baby boy rapped all over with cloth and was kept in the cemetery, so we picked him and thi...

14 people were brutally murdered by suspected herdsmen on Wednesday morning in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau state. The assailants reports say raided three villages in the early hours of Wednesday, armed with dangerous weapons while the villagers were still asleep; killing and destroying their properties. According to reports, the attack came following an incident on Tuesday in which three people were killed in neighbouring Barkin Ladi Local Government Area. Speaking on the attack, representative of Barkin Ladi/Riyom federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr Simon Mwadkom said four members of a family were shot at close range in Dallyam village, in Tahoss district and several others were injured. During the attack however, another set of terrorists killed eight people in Ranghol in Sopp ward of the local government, and another two were murdered in Lotton village of the same local government. Mwadkom accused Fulani herdsmen for the attacks which were well org...