In Nigeria, the International Children’s Day is marked annually every May 27. This year, Ayodeji Ake, Sunday Ehigiator, and Ozulumba Chiamaka shine the spotlight on underaged street hawkers, who have swapped the classrooms for the streets in a bid to eke a living. Juxtaposing that narrative with the 2006 report on child labour by UNICEF Nigeria, which revealed that a staggering 15 million children under the age of 14 are working across Nigeria, this thus establishes a cycle of child rights violation that must be stopped at all costs 13-year-old Favour John and seven-year-old Gift John are siblings who on a daily basis, excluding Sundays, hawk groundnut the long distance of Ogba to Ikeja then to Oshodi, Lagos, to support their parent’s finances. If Lady Luck shines on them, their trays would have been empty by their 8pm closing time and if not, they have to at least sell to a reasonable minimum. Their living arrangements, as awkward as it sounds, probably works for t...
A student of the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State popularly known as Mr HOD, allegedy committed suicide few days ago. According to reports, the man from Enugu State, called his close friends on Wednesday, to tell them that he was going on a journey of no return before drinking Sniper, a lethal pesticide which has become a popular choice for suicidal Nigerians. Read reports by his classmates, Uchenna Jovita and others: "A student of Anambra federal polytechnic Oko. popularly known as Mr hod in the department of public administration, level ND. From Enugu state. Committed suicide two days ago. According to News in my department, his father died when he is still in secondary school. Two nights ago,He drank sniper and called his close friends to tell them that his going to a journey of no return. Before they came to his Lodge to know what is happening, he has already drank half of the sniper. He gave up before they were able to get him to the ...
The ‘Fast and Furious‘ franchise with its series of action films have got the attention of people; especially a good number of car enthusiasts. The franchise started way back to 2001. The stunts pulled in Fast and Furious films make the whole thing more interesting. Crazy driving comes with a price; as the stunts got crazier, more cars were rendered unusable. It’s no surprise that more than 1500 cars have been destroyed since the very first film, ‘The Fast and the Furious‘ (2001). ‘Fast Five’ (2011) dismissed a total of 260 cars just like that. Around 300 to 400 cars were said to be destroyed in ‘Fast and Furious 6‘ (2013) alone. Some were ran over; got crushed; thrown down from plane and some got blown up. ‘Furious 7‘ (2015) recorded a number around 230 cars; it completely destroyed a $3.4 million Lykan HyperSport, one of the most expensive cars in the world. Universal franchise’s picture car coordinator, Dennis McCarthy, revealed this. To save cost, some of the ex...
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