Two women have lost their lives after a container fell from a truck and landed on a commercial bus at Odo Olowu area, Ijesha bus-stop in Lagos on Friday, August 21.

Confirming the incident, Director-General of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, stated that the agency received a distress call at about 9:00pm that an empty 40-feet container has killed two persons in an accident.

It was gathered that the truck which was loaded with an empty 40-feet container, suffered brake failure, rammed into the stationary commercial bus, and subsequently fell down.

The two adult females died on the spot and their remains were deposited in the morgue.

This incident comes barely a month after two workers of the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria FAAN, were crushed to death in similar circumstances in Ojota, Lagos state.

The police in Lagos state have arrested a 40-year-old man, Gbenga Taiwo, for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old daughter under the pretext he wanted to check if she was still a virgin.

According to reports, Taiwo who is a widower, lived in a rented apartment at Baruwa, Ipaja area of Lagos State with his daughter. He allegedly started molesting his daughter when she was 13 years old.

The Coordinator of a child rights group, Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network, Ebenezer Omejalile, who has been following up with the case, told City Round that the victim got tired of the abuse and reported to her landlord who cautioned her father but he refused to stop.

“The girl said she had been constantly abused by her father since she was 13. He is about 40 years old and a retired electricity worker. Before the intervention of the girl’s maternal uncle, one Mr Alagba, the girl got tired of the wickedness of her father and informed their landlord who confronted the father to stop the evil act and he let him know the consequence of his action.

But the suspect turned a deaf ear to it and kept doing it to the extent that whenever he was on night duty, he went to the office with girl to keep having her to his satisfaction. The man claimed that he saw some pictures in his daughter’s phone and suspected that she was wayward. He said he did not have sex with her but only used his finger to check if she is a virgin or not.”

Family members of the suspect claim he is mentally unstable and was checked into a private rehabilitation center in Ise Oluwa Hospital in Abeokuta, Ogun State in 2018.

Confirming his arrest, the spokesperson of the state police command, Bala Elkana, said a test would be carried out to determine the mental state of the suspect.

A 13-year-old boy identified as Aminu, who allegedly suffered constant domestic abuse from his father and stepmothers have been rescued by well-meaning Nigerians in Borno State.

Humanitarian worker, Junaid Jibril Maiva, who took to his facebook page to share the story, said Aminu’s mother and father are separated and he had to stay with his father.

Read the heartbreaking story below ;

”It is heartbreaking and annoying how parents now a days treat their own child. This thirteen year old child was denied any form of parental support and shelter simply because his mother was divorced.

He was forced to sleeps in verandah beside a gutter without foods, clothes, talk less of net to protect him from malaria and other diseases.
Mallam Murtala from Mobbar LGA now living in Baga road Maiduguri confessed that he and his wives had thrown the child and serves him food once daily.

During investigation by management of National Human Rights Commission lead by Barr Jummai Mshelia accompanied by E-D WINN Madame Lucy Dlama ,it was gathered that the child (Aminu) step mothers always beat him without a reason.
When Aminu was served food, Spaghetti and stew to be precise, he ate like a hungry lion, it is disheartening and heart breaking seeing this child eating empty spaghetti without touching the stew, an indication that he had not seen stew for long. All this because his mother is not in the house.
After documentation, Barr Jummai lead team will take the child for more medical support.

Relevant stakeholders must take action on this increasing menace that is consuming us. Child abuse needs to be tackled in this country.

You may recalled this is similar case that happened in Kebbi where 12 year old Jibril was chained and detained for years in animal tents.”

On the 19th of August 2020, the Katsina State Police Command paraded 3 boys for allegedly gang-raping and drowning a thirteen year old girl in a pond in Danmusa local government area in their farmland on August 14.

According to Isah, the trio, all from Danmusa town, allegedly conspired, attacked and gang-raped a 13-year-old girl from Dutsen-Dadi village in Danmusa Local Government Area in their farmland on Aug. 14, 2020.

He said that after raping the victim, they threw her into a nearby pond, as a result of which, she got drown and died.

The spokesman added that the victim’s dead body was later discovered and taken to Danmusa Hospital, where she was confirmed dead.

A video of the boys recounting how they carried out the act has been shared online.

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A Nigerian woman, identified as Mrs Chizoba Eke, has been rescued alive after spending three days in a well in Igwuruta, Ikwerre area of Rivers State.

According to reports, the mother was thrown into the well by a suspected kidnapper, who also abducted her child and left her for dead.

A source said she was rescued after military personnels arrested the suspected kidnapper on his way to an unknown location with the child.

“He told them where the woman was, thinking she was dead, but on getting there, they discovered that she was still alive,” the source added.

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