Farmer arraigned for selling seven children for N400,000

A 49-year-old farmer, Gabriel Ajor, has been arraigned before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly abducting and selling seven children, including his two sons and an eight-year-old baby, for N400,000.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ajor allegedly abducted and sold the children on the pretext of sending them to schools in Owerri, Imo State, and the United States of America.

The accused was said to have tricked one Kenneth Omale and John Attah, parents of five of the children, into believing he meant well for the children.

FG To Commence With Free Meals For 5.5million School Children From September

The Federal Government has confirmed that it will commence its National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in September with 5.5 million pupils nationwide.

National Programme Manager, Mrs Abimbola Adesanmi, disclosed this in Abeokuta on Wednesday.

She spoke at the opening of a two-day stakeholders’ workshop on the Ogun State Home Grown School Feeding Programme.

HIV Positive Man Paid £3 to Have Sex with School Children Claims 'They Find Pleasure In It'

An HIV-infected man in his 40s has told how he makes a living by being paid to have sex with children.

Eric Aniva, pictured above, who would not reveal his exact age, lives in the Nsanje district of southern Malawi where he works a sex worker.

His work - known as a "hyena" - is embedded into the sacred traditions of his village.

There, young women are regularly "cleansed" by having sex with a hyena, sometimes as punishment for an offence such as having an abortion.

But for locals a hyena's main duty is overseeing a coming-of-age ritual, where girls take part in sex over a three-day period after their first menstruation.

Family Took In Friend’s Six Children After Their Mother Died of Cancer

A mother had so much love for her friend that she that she adopted all six of her children after she died of cancer.

Stephanie Culley and her husband Donnie, from Virginia, already had three children of their own, but when Beth Laitkep realised she wasn’t going to survive her illness, they knew what they had to do.

They told her yes, they could raise her six, aged between two years old and 15 – and let her pass away last month in peace, knowing they would be looked after.

‘I wanted her to live so much. No mother ever deserved to live and raise their kids as much as her,’ Stephanie told CBS. ‘I mean, they needed her.’

Charlyboy Fathered 7 Children With Other Women - Wife, Lady D

Wife of eccentric media personality, Charly Boy has made quite a shocking revelation as she said her husband of 38 years fathered seven children from ‘away matches’.

Reminiscing on their roller-coaster marital journey in an interview with Babalola Oshogbiye, Lady D said she had to battle the Area Fada‘s excesses in regards to the opposite sex.

‘In the beginning it was the women, my gosh! Women everywhere. Charles is a charmer,’ she said.

She continued, ‘he had seven kids from his away matches and the women he married that didn’t work out, before we got married. But as the years rolled by I found ways of calming him down, and curing my high blood pressure. I later found out that the women were more for his hypes, like the Charly’s Virgins.

Four Children Suffocate To Death After Locking Themselves in A Car

Tragedy struck in Dattawa, in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, as four children suffocated after mistakenly locking themselves in a car.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the children – Umar Mansir (male, 9); Maryam Salisu (female, 12); Sadiyya Bashir (female, 7); and Fatima Ibrahim (female, 3) – lived with their parents in Rigasa Quarters and always played together.

However, their parents were said to have gone out on Thursday and one of them left his Honda Civic car unlocked in the compound.

The children were reported to have entered into the car and later closed the door.It was said that one of them pressed the lock button and as the car got heated, the children became trapped.

Woman Kills Husband Before Skinning and Cooking Corpse to Serve to His Three Children

ABATTOIR worker Katherine Knight stabbed her husband 37 times before hanging his skin from meat hooks.

The 60-year-old tortured her victim John Price until his final moments and took his head as a souvenir.

Police found John's head boiling on the stove and slices of his buttocks which had been prepared for dinner for his three children

Knight became the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life without parole in 2001.

The story became infamous and was immortalised in the book Blood Stain by Peter Lalor.

Accountant Kills 14 Family Members, Then Hangs Himself

An accountant allegedly slaughtered 14 members of his own family, including seven children, with a butcher's knife before hanging himself.

Husnain Warerkar, 35, slit his relatives' throats during a family celebration in the Indian district of Thane in the early hours of today, police said.The victims included his parents, his wife and seven children.One of his sisters was the only survivor of the horrific attack, UK Mirror reports. 

The terrified woman was taken to a nearby hospital by neighbours after her brother slaughtered the rest of their family.
Neighbours described the alleged killer as a cheerful person who showed no signs of any psychological disorder.

Boy ‘Brought Back To Life’ 30 Minutes After He Nearly Drowned

A TODDLER who nearly drowned in an algae-filled pond was saved by villagers who pulled him from the water and gave him CPR for 30 minutes.

The youngster was rescued by other children who grabbed a long bamboo stick and dragged him back to dry land.

One of the kids was seen face down in the water while the other screamed in the upsetting mobile phone footage.

In the footage, filmed at an unknown Chinese village, a boy known as Li jumped into the pond and carried the unconscious boy back to shore.

Woman Shot Multiple Times As She Shielded Children From Bullets in Kalamazoo Shooting

The NYDailyNews is reporting that one of the Kalamazoo shooter Jason Dalton’s victims was severely injured while trying desperately to protect the small children playing in front of a housing building…

Tiana Carruthers put herself between a group of kids and gunman Jason Dalton at the beginning of his Saturday night rampage in Michigan, when he killed six and wounded two others.

Carruthers was hit three times in the legs and arms, according toWWMT,but is expected to survive after receiving multiple surgeries.

Father kills 4 Children, 2 Adults in Texas Shooting

A father has shot dead four of his children after opening fire at a house in Texas.

The suspect also killed two adults and critically wounded his 15-year-old daughter before armed officers chased and cornered his silver car in Spring, a Houston suburb.

The suspected gunman eventually surrendered after a nearly three-hour stand-off with police.

First, he led police on a nearly half-hour pursuit, then his car was sandwiched between two police trucks in a residential cul-de-sac a few miles from the scene of the killings.

Despite being surrounded by marksmen, the suspect remained "cool as a cucumber", Sergeant Thomas Gilliland said.

Gunmen Hijack Children School Bus in Nyanya, Abuja

A school bus belonging to a private school this morning, 6^th of May, 2014 has been hijacked in Nyanya, Abuja by gunmen. Confusion and panic in Karu and Nyanya areas of Abuja after reports that suspected Boko Haram members hijacked a school-bus this morning and kidnapped school children went viral. I hear anxious parents have even withdrawn their wards from schools there because of the scare.
The stories initially had it that two schools were invaded - Ave Maria Girls Secondary School and Vine International Academy but here is the true story - Ave Maria was not involved. The school proprietor of Ave Maria confirmed on phone that their school wasn't involved. But at Vine International Academy in Nyanya, their school bus was taken this morning by gunmen.

Soldier Shoots Self Dead over Boko Haram Killing of Parents, Children in Yobe

A Corporal in the Nigerian Army (name withheld) formerly serving with the Joint Task Force, JTF, in Rivers State on Wednesday shot and killed himself in what his colleagues described as suicide over Boko Haram members gruesome murder of his parents and two children in Yobe State, North-Eastern Nigeria.

The soldier according to source was attached to the Abonima Command of the JTF, who are in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria to check the tide of various organized crimes in the area, including kidnappings, crude oil bunkering among others.

The dead soldier according to the source received the news of the killings of his immediate family members Tuesday through a relation  based in Damaturu, Yobe State capital.

Couple Starves Three Children And Chains One To The Floor

Huffington Post: is reporting that - Three starving children — including one who was chained to the floor to prevent her from getting food — were found last month in the squalid home of a Northern California couple, authorities said.

All three — two boys and a girl — were taken into protective custody, and one was hospitalized, Monterey County Sheriff Scott Miller said.

Authorities discovered them in the Salinas, Calif., home on March 14 after two of the young people missed appointments, according to several published reports.

“It was a particularly heinous case,” Miller told the Monterey Herald. The children had “hardly eaten for months.”

The boys are 3 and 5 years old, and the girl is 8, authorities said, and they all exhibited bruises and signs of other physical as well as emotional abuse.

17-yr-Old Nabbed For Sleeping With Own Mother, Raping 4 Children

THE Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Ebonyi State, yesterday, arrested a serial rapist and homosexual, Chibuike Maduka, who allegedly raped four children of different parents at Ndibe in Afikpo North Local Government Area of the state.

The suspect who blamed his strange sexual escapades on his mother, Mrs. Idam Augustina Josephine, confessed to have had sexual intercourse with his mother on several occasions and that he doesn’t know what usually compel him to have sex with children in the area.

Parading the suspect at the Command headquarters in Abakaliki, the state Commandant of NSCDC, Mrs. Ego Echendu, said the suspect was arrested after a tip-off by an indigene of the area, adding that the suspect had in a confessional statement disclosed that he had sexual intercourse with his mother.

102-Year-Old Toy Catalog Shows What Rich Children Did For Fun

FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862, making it the oldest toy retailer in the US. Now, thanks to the Internet Archive, a brochure published in 1911 by the company's New York store — the inspiration for Home Alone 2's Duncan's Toy Chest — has been digitized. It shows toy tastes from a century ago with line drawings and early photographs. Prices range from 25 cents for glass beads, to a staggering $50 (upwards of $1,170 today) for a "handsomely painted" toy car. Some entries, such as those found on the page devoted to hammocks, or the polished hardwood hoop designed to be beaten down a street with a stick, would be difficult sells to modern kids. But browse further and you'll realize that many of the catalog's other offerings — dolls, strollers, wagons, and kites — can still be found in modern toy stores.

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[Photos] Assad's Thugs Beheaded In Front Of Children, Butchered Like Animals

The sword rests briefly on his neck as a blindfolded man kneels under a clear blue sky. Moments later, the executioner raises his right arm, slashes downwards and the prisoner is dead. The whole barbaric episode is watched by a crowd of jeering men, many of them armed.

And sitting on a low wall only a few feet from where the wretched captive died so violently is a line of young boys. 

They were still there as the dead man’s head was dumped on his body. Another child, even younger, was led by the hand past the corpse.

[Video & Photo] Usher's Tearful Ex-Wife Tameka Foster Loses Custody Battle For Sons After Pool Accident...

Usher and his ex-wife appeared make peace in court after a bitter custody war over their two sons. The singer gave tearful Tameka Foster Raymond a consoling hug moments after she lost her bid to get temporary primary custody of Usher V, five, and Naviyd, four, in a hearing in Atlanta.

She sought legal action after the pair's older child got caught in a pool drain while in the care of the Grammy winner's aunt on Monday. She alleged the children were in a 'dangerous environment'. But the judge described the incident as an 'awful accident' and dismissed the case.

The courtroom showdown between the former couple took a surprising turn, with Usher extending the proverbial olive branch to a distraught Raymond by embracing her.

[Photos] Omotola's Kids All Grown Up

Omotola's children, Princess (16, in green), M.J (15, in red jacket), Meraiah (13, in the brown dress) and her last born Michael Ekeinde (11, in the black jacket) have all grown up. They joined their celebrity mum at Oriental Hotel on Sunday as the Actor’s Guild of Nigeria honored her. More Pics after cut...

Children Hack Mother to Death With Machete In Edo State Nigeria

Two siblings have been arrested in Edo State for allegedly killing their mother.

It was learnt that Omolayo Ojeifo, 25, and her younger brother, Taiye, 20, in Lampese, Akoko-Edo Local Government, allegedly lured their mother, Itowo Ojeifo, to a farm road, where they allegedly killed her with a machete.

The elder sibling, according to reports, had been having issues with her mother, who she accused of being behind her financial stagnation.

She was said to have however apologised to her mother few days to her murder, saying she was misled into believing that her mother was responsible for her misfortune.

On the reported day the mother was killed, the suspect was said to have appealed to her to accompany her somewhere.