Over 5,000 love struck women thronged the Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC) on Saturday with the aim of finding true love and restoring broken marriage relationships. The conference which started running on Friday under the theme ‘Your set time of marriage’ was presided over by Nigerian self proclaimed pastor of marriage Chris Ojigbani. Some of [...]

A 45 year-old man, Abdulahi Ahmed Babangida, who allegedly lured an 8-year old Primary 2 pupil with N20 and raped her, has confessed that he enjoys having sex with under-aged girls. In his confessional statement to the police, Babangida said he has been raping under-aged girls for the past 20 years and has been deriving [...]

LEBOKU (New Yam) Festival in Cross River State has become more than just the celebration of the commencement of the eating of new yam. It has been promoted as an incentive to drive the development of agriculture in the state. Leboku, by nature, is an agric-based festival. It is a yearly ritual of the Ugep [...]

Leaders of militias that carried out mass rape in Democratic Republic of Congo will face war crimes charges, a UN conflict envoy said Tuesday. Margot Wallstrom, special representative on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, made a direct warning to the heads of militias and armed groups in the African nation where more widespread [...]

U.N. officials said they will toughen efforts to thwart the kind of mass rape reported recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and they urged the country to ramp up a search for a missing human rights activist believed to be kidnapped. Both the abduction and the rapes occurred in North Kivu in eastern [...]

The United States will help any effort to bring to justice rebels accused in the “horrific” mass rape of women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday. Rebels from the Mai Mai militia and Rwandan Hutu FDLR, who occupied the town of Luvungi in North Kivu [...]

IN the last seven months, a total of 345 rape cases have been reported. Out of this figure, 83 are cases of children under the age of 11,  Police Commissioner Isaac Magagula has revealed. Speaking on Saturday during the Gege Crime Prevention Campaign, Magagula noted that sexual abuse and domestic violence cases had become a [...]

The African Union has declared 2010 to 2020 as the decade of African Women and to mark Women’s Day, the Daily News has spoken to women in various sectors in South Africa about what changes they hope to see over the next 10 years. However, before looking to the future, a reflection of the past [...]

Nothing about Ijeoma Akobundu’s demeanour suggests her profession. The 26-year-old indigene of Imo State is a gentle soft-spoken lady, and was recently elected as the secretary of the tenants’ association of her Surulere residence. She is a commercial sex worker. Every evening, she leaves for her current place of business; a seedy unnamed hotel near [...]

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and longtime beau Marc Mezvinsky were wed Saturday “in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts,” a 50-acre estate in Rhinebeck, New York, according to her parents. “We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning of their life together, and we are so happy to [...]