The family of Madam Evbu Iyahen Eguasa, the elderly mentally challenged woman recently rescued from an uninhabitable house along Upper Lawani Street in Benin City by the Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, has expressed profound appreciation to the Edo State Government and the Honourable Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development,…
A54-year-old Nigerian Catholic priest, Reverend Benjamin Okwy Madu, has died by suicide in Massachusetts, United States, days after he was ordered to leave the country and return to Nigeria for a new assignment despite reportedly expressing fears for his safety if he returned home. Madu died on July 2 at his residence in Lynnfield, Massachusetts,…
The Federal Fire Service (FFS) says six persons were rescued alive after a section of Whitefield Rice Mills Processing Company collapsed in Gezawa LGA of Kano state. Kazeem Sholadaye, state controller of the FFS, said in a statement on Tuesday that the service received a distress call at about 6:45 pm on Monday and immediately…
