Ritual killings
29 Nov
Mental health experts have said that growing insecurity, and forced displacement, among other challenges in the country, are capable of increasing mental health issues in the country.
31 Jul
Nigerians have continued to express their views on the Federal Government’s consideration of a possible restriction on the use of commercial motorcycles.
7 Jul
The Oyo State Police Command, yesterday, arrested 31-year-old Lukman Yisa and 26-year-old Usman Salami, for allegedly engaging in ritual killing and sale of human parts.
6 Jun
The issue of insecurity in Nigeria has become something of grave concern to all well-meaning citizens, most of whom continue to wonder how the country arrived at such a dastardly situation
22 May
The Ogbomoso Anglican Diocese, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has decried the worsening state of insecurity, unprecedented bloodletting, kidnapping, ritual killings
22 Apr
Nigeria adopted the Child’s Rights Act in 2003, giving a nod to both the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights
10 Feb
Since the news filtered in that four under-20 boys were caught with the head of Sofiat Okeowo in Ogun State, the latest in the series of alleged money ritual killings
10 Feb
House of Representatives, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to declare a national emergency aimed at stemming the tide of ritual killings in the country.
9 Feb
The House of Representatives has charged the Inspector General of Police (I-G) to take urgent steps towards tacking ritual killings in the country.
30 Jan
The spate of violence being unleashed on our students in schools, particularly females, has become very alarming and it is time to save the students, from kidnappers, abductors, murderers and rapists.
5 Oct 2021
Hundreds of women protested in Liberia's capital Monrovia on Tuesday against a wave of alleged ritual killings in the country, an AFP journalist saw.
30 Sep 2021
Five headless bodies have been exhumed at a house in the northeast of DR Congo, Red Cross and civil protection sources said Thursday, one of whom said that ritual killing were suspected.
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