MEN of the Jigawa State Police Command have arrested a 30-year old man named as Alasan Audu in Ringim Local Government Area of the state for raping his recently-wedded teenage wife to death.

In a tragic case of child abuse, Mr Audu raped his 17-year old wife to death after she denied him sex for 20 days following their wedding. According to the police, Mr Audu raped Hansa’u to death on April 21, at Kankarelu village in Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

NIGERIA'S federal government has unveiled a six-week plan broken down into three tranches detailing how it will gradually lift all the restrictions put in place to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

FOUR men have sentenced to spend 14 days in isolation by an Ilorin Magistrates Court for attempting to escape with a coronavirus patient identified as Kazeem Oladayo from a quarantine centre after he was diagnosed as Covid-19 positive.

NIGERIA will be spending as much as 75% of her annual revenue on debt servicing by 2024 according to a recent grim report from the World Bank which indicates that the economy is being saddled with debts it cannot handle.

MILLIONS of women will end up with unwanted pregnancies as a result of the global economic lockdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic according to a recent report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigerians like to hide behind the excuse of bad leaders but they are just being dishonest. They know deep down that even if our leaders want to be honest men, we will not let them be honest men. Nigeria’s leaders are a mirror image of the rest of society

ENGLISH Premier League giants Liverpool have opened talks with Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen with a view to bringing him to Merseyside when the 2020/21 season league resumes later in the year.

GERMANY has come to Nigeria's assistance with a grant of €5.5m to help support vulnerable people in the northeast of the country where residents suffering from the combined effects of the Boko Haram insurgency and the Covid-19 lockdown.

NIGERIA has decided to try out Madagascar's coronavirus herbal remedy known as Covid Organics by asking the Madagascan authorities to send a plane load of the solution to Abuja so local scientists can test it.

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has offered to supply Nigeria with ventilators over the coming weeks as part of America's support to assist the country as it grapples with the effect of the debilitating coronavirus pandemic.