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A 17-year-old male SAPELE—A 17-year-old male inmate, Silas Anidi, who slit the throat of an 11-year-old girl in 2015, is among 23 inmates that escaped from the Ministry of Women Affairs and Development Remand Home in Sapele. Though the incident was carefully kept away from the public, investigation by Vanguard revealed that the inmates within the age bracket of 14 and 17 years escaped from custody on July 30th and August 2nd in what a staff of the home described as a careful orchestrated escape plot. “The escaped inmates are being held for various capital offences ranging from r... more »

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The Nigeria Police Force says it has detained and tried two of its personnel in an orderly room for alleged reckless shooting in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a video in circulation on the social media showed the two policemen shooting into the air on the street while in a moving vehicle in Lagos. The Head of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU), ACP Abayomi Shogunle, said the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Police Mobile Force at the Force Headquarters, identified the men following a directive of the Inspector-General of Police. Shogunle said t... more »

truth

Real Madrid and Portugal football star, Cristiano Ronaldo has responded to tax evasion allegations, telling a Spanish judge Monday that he has “never tried to avoid taxes.” Ronaldo was questioned to determine whether he committed tax fraud worth almost 15 million euros ($17.5 million) and spent more than 90 minutes answering the questions of investigating judge Monica Gomez. “I have never hidden anything, and never tried to avoid taxes,” the 32 year-old mega football star said. “Spain’s Tax Office knows all the details about my sources of income because we have reported them,” R... more »

early death

One of the victims of the horrific fuel tanker fire has been identified as Barr. Ngozi Nmadu. The accident involving a fuel tanker and an 18-seater commercial bus ,occurred last Friday at Felele on the Abuja-Lokoja Highway. Late Nmadu was on her way to Abuja on official duty,died in the incident which claimed at least 25 lives. Until her demise, Ngozi was the Chief Executive Officer and Legal Secretary of Quick Africa, Asaba. and the first daughter of Hon. Emeka Nmadu from Okanam, Delta State. Friends and colleagues took to Facebook to pay tribute to her.

bad

A woman, who lost four of her children in a kerosene explosion at her residence in Rumukwucha community, was seen yesterday around GRA Junction half-naked and appealing to passers-by to help rescue her children from the inferno. Vanguard gathered that the woman, identified as Iya Samson, lost her four children last Friday night in an explosion that resulted from the adulterated kerosene she poured into her cooking stove. A resident in the neighbourhood, who gave his name as Uche, said the lady was cooking when the stove suddenly went up in flames, consuming her four children and ot... more »

hardship

The freed six pupils of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, have commenced therapeutic treatment ,to relieve them of the trauma of their captivity. The children were debriefed for about four hours on Monday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. Their parents were not allowed access to the session reportedly organised by a team of psychologists and other medical experts. The children were dropped at a creek in Ondo State around 12pm on Friday after kidnappers collected fresh N5m. They were reunited with their parents in Lagos later in the day and taken... more »

wonders

A transgender man living in Portland, Oregon, has given birth to a boy .Trystan Reese and his partner of seven years, Biff Chaplow,welcomed their son, Leo Murray Chaplow. Trystan Reese, 34, was born a girl, but despite beginning hormone therapy a decade ago, he has kept his ‘original parts’, enabling him to get pregnant. The couple's story went viral in June