30-yr-old man sentenced to life imprisonment for r@ping a 9-yr-old girl in Ekiti State A 30-year-old Okada rider, Ojo Idowu, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, for r@ping a nine-year-old girl.The defendant was first arraigned on one charge bordering on r@pe before Justice Olalekan Olatawura in March, 2022. In her testimony before the court, the victim, a primary three pupil, said when she went to fetch water and on her way back, Idowu asked her to follow him to his house to get something for her grandmother. I stood by the…
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met my husband Nuhu, in 2017. We dated for a year and got married in 2018. He is the third born out of his mother’s five sons. And among his siblings, he is the one closest to his mother. The love between them is something I cannot describe with words. He tells her everything. Even the things we discuss as a couple, he tells her. If we decide to do something, he would ask his mother for her opinion and whatever she tells him becomes the final say. Currently, we have two children and it has not been easy taking…
I met Kobby somewhere in 2019. I hadn’t spoken to him but I had a secret crush on him. I saw him as a very nice guy so I wanted to get to know him. After a month of admiring him from afar, I got the opportunity to talk to him and we became friends. It was through our friendship that I got to know that the handsome guy I was crushing on is an alcoholic. There was no single day that he did not smell like alcohol. In fact, the smell of alcohol became his natural scent. He wore…
Moses was posted to my school for his National Service in 2014. I was eighteen and in SH$2 while he was twenty-nine. The first time he entered my classroom he walked up to me and asked, “What is your name?” Itold him my name and he said, “That’s my mother’s name too.” And then he proceeded to address the class and delivered his lessons. After that day, I started greeting him wherever saw him. That’s how our friendship began. Though in hindsight I ask myself, “Was it really friendship? I was a teenager in high school while he was a…
Jamaican rapper, Diamond The Body who recently shared a nude photo of her and Burna boy, has disclosed that her body count is 2000.The rapper disclosed this in a recent interview where she also revealed that she sleeps with women and men.Diamond concluded the interview by saying “Only God can judge me. I don’t give a f*ck!” Gossipinfo news recall that Burna Boy, a Grammy-winning musician, lost his composure once more on social media while exchanging insults with Wizkid supporters.The singer described the type of life he led before joining the Nigerian music industry while performing.The self-described African giant claims…
A Nigerian lady has advised fellow ladies never to make the same mistake she made ten years ago in her relationship.Sharing her story online, she disclosed how she cancelled her wedding two weeks to the D-Day because she saw a richer man. Her ex-lover got so heartbroken and had to relocate out of shame. Sadly, ten years later, she is still yet to get another man for herself.Her story read in part:“10 years ago, a man proposed to me and I accepted it. So we planned to get married and I called off the wedding 2 weeks to the date…
A Kenyan man has left many netizens stunned after he revealed why he decided to have an affair despite being married.He was speaking to a televangelist who they visited for counseling after she found out that he cheated on her.He recounted how he met her in 2017 when she was looking very pretty and slender, but after they got married in 2020 she began to become less attractive in his eye. The husband explained that it was because she began to gain weight that he felt he was no longer seeing the pretty wife he married.He signed her up at…
Growing up as a church kid, who suffered from severe depression, I was not met with the type of counsel and comfort one might have expected. I was faced with a surprising amount of misunderstanding, terrible advice, and total estrangement in some cases. Now that I am older and hopefully a bit wiser for the wear, I see that there is a much greater awareness about anxiety and depression in a general collective sense in the world. However, it is still so often spoken about in hushed tones within the church. We need to change that. Tragically as a Christian…
I was a few months away from my thirtieth birthday when my life fell apart. I had a beautiful home, new vehicles shining in the double garage, and the financial stability to add to the rooms of my house pretty much anything my heart desired. Four bedrooms, but basically silent halls. I had a wonderful 9-5, good friends, and who can forget the double shelves of alphabetized DVDs. Life was good. Or as good as life got, anyway. Right?! I can remember the heartache like no other. My throat was raw with it. The deep pain in my chest rose…
I slept with my mother when I was a kid and I have a motherhood confession: There is a child (or two or three) sleeping in my bed more nights than not. With four total, and all of them still relatively young enough to wake up in the middle of the night sick or scared or wet or thirsty or just alone, it’s a nightly event that at least one — and sometimes more — pads into my room, holding a blanket or a stuffed something that has seen better days. I roll over and look at the clock and…