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A Kuwaiti man raped his daughter for nearly 12 years since she was a child before she decided to report him to the police although she first told authorities she did not want him to be prosecuted. The girl, now 22, walked into a police station in Houli area in the capital Kuwait City and asked to speak to the ...

THREE years to the next general elections, the battle line for the 2015 presidential race appears drawn. Multiple reliable sources in government and the Peoples Democratic Party told our correspondents over the weekend that prominent Northern politicians, including governors, were plotting to stop President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged bid for a second term. This is in spite of the denial by ...

A suspected Boko Haram enclave came down in rubbles yesterday in Jos. Its last occupants included Hauwa Mohammed, said to be the widow of the suspected ThisDay suicide bomber who attacked the newspaper office in Abuja, last month. Five other women, believed to be wives of Boko Haram operatives, were among the residents. Seized from the house before a bulldozer ...

By Ogunjimi James Taiwo The information made available to the outside world is that Ogun state government has declared free education in primary and secondary schools. Yes, that’s true. But what they won’t tell people is that our universities are in shambles. What then is the point of laying a firm foundation of good education in primary and secondary schools ...

By Nwaorgu Faustinus The is one ill which has bedevilled the educational system and if honestly confronted head-on and eliminated will change the perception which the comity of nations do have about Nigeria certificates and thus make our certificates acceptable and by extension Nigeria good place where honesty and transparency is venerated. This ill that has eaten so deep into ...