FIFA are investigating the World Cup qualifier between Senegal and Egypt which took place on Tuesday, March 29. The game ended in a penalty shootout marred by Mohamed Salah and his teammates being targeted by lasers. Senegal won 3-1 on penalties to book their place in Qatar. But a bitter fallout has ensued, with Egypt making accusations about their treatment in Dakar. During the shootout, Egypt players and their goalkeeper had green lasers shone at them to distract them. …
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Fans have taken to social media to berate sportswear giant, Adidas after they announced on Wednesday, February 9, an end to sponsorship of West Ham Footballer Kurt Zouma. Zouma, a black French footballer has been under heavy criticism after a video surfaced on Sunday showing him kick his cat severally. His club have fined him £250,000 for the act, the pets have been seized from him while Adidas announced a termination to its endorsement of the footballer. Meanwhile in …
A 13 year-old boy allegedly abused by his father and stepmothers, has been rescued by the police in Borno state. Humanitarian worker, Junaid Jibril Maiva, who shared the story online, said Aminu’s mother and father are separated and he had to stay with his father. The father and his other wives forced him to sleep in a dingy room beside a gutter and denied him food and other basic needs. The police acting on a tip-off stormed the father’s home in …
The mother of a toddler who was sexually abused by a supervisor/pastor in Chrisland School, Victoria Garden City (VGC), has spoken out after an Appeal Court upheld the supervisor’s 60 years jail sentence. Narrating how she discovered in 2016 that her daughter, who was 2 years and 11 months old at the time, had been sexually abused multiple times by Adegboyega Adenekan, a former supervisor at the school, the child’s mum said: I had read Pastor Nomthi Odukoya’s …
A Nigerian lady’s tweet saying women who are financially independent are hardly abused in marriages, has sparked off a debate on social media. @da-divah had tweeted ”A financially independent woman is hardly abused in a marriage!!!” While some people agreed with her, others disagreed saying that a woman’s financial status does not discourage an abuser. See their comments and tell us what you think.
Mothers who have suffered the domestic abuse of being beaten, attacked and bullied by their own children have come out to tell their stories. Child-to-parent abuse (CPA) is more common than most people think because it is highly under reported. In the UK alone, police figures revealed a 30 per …