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Children need constant supervision around water, be it a bathtub, a wading pool, an ornamental fish pond, a swimming pool, a spa, the beach, or a lake. Swimpro, a platform that connects personal swimming instructors to learners across Nigeria, says young children are especially at risk because...

A plane passenger got so fed up with a drunk man swearing during a flight he punched him in the face, it has been claimed. Shocking footage of the incident on flight from Russia to Antalya in Turkey emerged online. A man had been disturbing fellow passengers throughout the flight, acting...

The mother of a transgender teen from Florida who died by suicide this month is hoping to raise awareness by sharing her child’s story and encouraging parents to listen to their children. With her high school graduation just around the corner in June, Eric Peter Verbeeck—who was … Read more...

We live in a world where snapping photos of your kids and posting them to social media is about as natural to parents as kissing a baby. But with that ease, comes extreme dangers. Putting up pictures of your child on social media means that their privacy has been breached which ultimately as we...

Health authorities in the FCT have declared a public health emergency in the settlement of Angwan Hausawa, a slum neighbourhood of Abuja Municipal Area Council after nine children died of a yet undiagnosed disease. At least 32 other children in the community of Damagaza are hospitalised. The...

No fewer than 62,728 children had been targeted for immunization against the polio virus in Miga Local Government Area of Jigawa during the ongoing polio immunization. The Information Officer of the Council, Malam Abdullahi Yakubu, disclosed the figure in an interview with the News Agency of...

Raising children has not always been an easy task. You have to be on your toes as parents so you won’t fail at the end. Children who were not raised properly and adequately when young usually turn out deficient when older. Raising a confident child is dependent on a lot of factors. Here are some...

Partnership Nigeria, an NGO, said on Thursday in Abuja that out of the 600,000 cases of tuberculosis recorded annually in Nigeria, children accounted for 60,000. Nigeria ranks third amongst countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis, the NGO said. According to Partnership Nigeria...

Sahara Reporters is reporting that the children of President Buhari's deputy during the military era, Biodun and Adekunle Idiagbon have been invited to EFCC's office in Abuja. The invitation is said to be in connection with a contract scandal. Details later

Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna North Central has adopted 60 children in the Adonai Orphanage Home as his children. The senator said though the children are orphans, they deserve a future like every other child, saying that, “We owe it to them; to support them and make their lives useful...

A middle aged man and father of three in Onueke, Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Chinedu Nwoja is now telling the police why he defiled nine children, whose ages range between of six and ten. Nwoja, who lives with the children in the same compound, is said to have been having...

Eleven migrants, including six of them babies, drowned on Sunday in a new tragedy off the Greek island of Samos. Ten of the dead were found in the cabin of the boat, which overturned as it made the hazardous crossing from the nearby Turkish coast, authorities said. The final victim, a...