Saturday Features
Beaten to death: Sad tales of parental corrections that ended in tragedy
Across Nigeria, chilling stories of children brutalised by their parents often slip through the cracks, buried under the guise of discipline. But behind closed doors and drawn curtains, unspeakable cr...
3rd May 2025
Shattered dreams: Sad stories of Nigerians battling depression abroad (1)
Biodun Busari writes about the heartbreaking emotional struggles some Nigerians face in the diaspora after leaving the comforts of home in pursuit of a brighter future, only to become trapped in a cyc...
3rd May 2025
Digital heist: How online pirates bleed film makers dry
Nollywood, one of the world’s largest film industries, has faced major financial losses, amounting to billions of naira because of online movie piracy, where individuals unlawfully leak, stream, or ...
26th April 2025
Inside Nigeria’s morgues where humans, rodents compete for body parts
For years, suspicions of ritualistic activities perpetrated by corrupt mortuary attendants have haunted grieving families whose loved ones were returned without vital body parts. But in a chilling twi...
26th April 2025
Inside Plateau’s killing fields of horror
The haunting memory of last Wednesday’s brutal attacks in Hurti and five other villages in the Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State continues to linger in the mind of 46-year-old John Yohan...
19th April 2025
I never believed I’d live up to 97 – Nonagenarian
Chief Mrs Funke Arthur-Worrey, a distinguished matriarch, community leader and philanthropist, is a former president and Head of the Board of Trustees of the International Women’s Society and widow ...
19th April 2025
Couples differ over doctor’s 21 monthly sex advice
The long-standing debate on how often a man should have sex to lower the risk of prostate cancer took a dramatic turn after a health specialist stirred controversy with an eyebrow-raising recommendati...
19th April 2025
My aunt filmed while her husband raped me for eight months – Domestic worker
•She’s a liar, says aunt In late 2018, Felicia (surname withheld) made a life-changing journey from Abuja, where she had been living with her uncle, to Lagos to spend the Christmas and New Year ho...
19th April 2025
Inside sizzling tales of Nigeria’s gyms turned hookup hotbeds
A new kind of workout fad is gaining popularity across Nigeria’s gyms, and it has little to do with dumbbells or treadmills. As the fitness culture surges, some men and women are flexing more than m...
12th April 2025
How cyber criminals exploit spy cameras to blackmail women
Once hailed as a powerful crime-fighting tool, surveillance cameras have now become sinister weapons in the hands of cyber voyeurs—spying on unsuspecting women and, in many cases, trapping them in w...
29th March 2025
My UK wife connived with Nigerian pastor to jail me – Man facing deportation
In this feature, a Nigerian man narrates how some partners exploit legal and immigration systems as a tool for revenge, using them to arrest and deport their spouses, VICTOR AYENI writes When Fred Omo...
22nd March 2025
Mayhem in farms as herders’ attacks deepen food crisis
Across Nigeria, the escalating attacks by armed herdsmen are forcing thousands of farmers to abandon their lands, leading to a growing food crisis. Once-thriving farmlands now lie fallow as fear grips...
22nd March 2025
Matrimonial battle: How UK-based Nigerian women exploit law to chase out husbands
Across Europe and North America, Nigerian men are increasingly speaking out about a troubling trend: wives using legal loopholes to have them ejected from their homes, gain custody of their children, ...
22nd March 2025
Lagos demolished school turns plank dump as govt foot drags on reconstruction
For the residents of Kadara in the Ebute-Metta area of Lagos, what was once a source of solace—a school for their children—has become nothing more than a memory. Kadara Grammar School, located on ...
15th March 2025
Harmony in diversity: How Pobuna School strengthens Christian-Muslim ties
As Pobuna Secondary Grammar School in Poka, Epe, Lagos, celebrates 55 years of academic excellence built on a unique Christian-Muslim partnership, CHIJIOKE IREMEKA examines how this collaboration has ...
8th March 2025
Ekiti worshippers kick out Anglican priest over leadership style
The gathering of congregants at the All Saints’ Church (Anointed Land), Opopogboro, Ado Ekiti, last Sunday, March 2, 2025, was an unusual one. Rather than converge on the church’s auditorium for...
8th March 2025
How older female relatives prey on young boys for sexual pleasure
For years, the narrative of sexual abuse in Nigeria has been largely one-sided, dominated by stories of female survivors. However, across social media, Nigerian men are breaking their silence, sharing...
8th March 2025
Controversy as four northern govs shut schools for Ramadan
Bauchi State’s decision to close schools for five weeks during Ramadan has sparked debate over the role of religion in education. Supporters cite cultural accommodation, while critics argue it prior...
1st March 2025
Rivers community falls into ruin as oil spill destroys livelihoods
An environmental catastrophe is unfolding in the Kalabari Kingdom, Rivers State, where an unchecked oil spill has poisoned the waters, decimated livelihoods, and left an entire community in despair. F...
1st March 2025
Deadly meal: How mischievous drug users lace friends’ food with marijuana
Amid economic problems, an increasing number of Nigerian youths are turning to marijuana as a means of escape. Many of them are resorting to the use of edibles infused in pastries and other foods whic...
1st March 2025
Patrons desert Portable’s bar as showdown with Ogun continues
Dust particles swirled in the air as vehicles and motorcycles navigated the untarred road leading to Odogwu Bar and Lounge, a pub owned by Nigerian singer Habeeb Badmus, popularly known as Portable. L...
15th February 2025
Osun monarch faces COVID-19 fraud trial in US
The whereabouts of Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Olugbenga Oloyede, is causing ripples in his domain, as residents and indigenes of the community are calling for the intervention of the Osun State Go...
15th February 2025
Ebonyi, Lagos markets where traders mill, repackage local rice as foreign brands
The aphorism “not all that glitters is gold” resonates loudly in rice markets, where what seems like premium quality often conceals a web of deceit. CHIJIOKE IREMEKA reveals that beneath the gloss...
15th February 2025
How fake alerts, network glitches undermine digital trust in Lagos markets
In Nigeria’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, digital payment systems have become integral to daily transactions. However, the proliferation of fake bank alerts and instances of missing notific...
15th February 2025
Silent extortion: How banks’ ATM charges, levies bleed Nigerians dry
On February 10, 2025, the Central Bank of Nigeria announced a significant revision to Automated Teller Machine withdrawal charges, set to take effect from 1 March 2025. In a circular reflecting the sa...
15th February 2025
What Fela’s life, death meant to me – Wole Soyinka
We had embarked on the search on our own, seeking, unlike black Americans, tributaries, not roots. It was an extended holiday in Jamaica, one of those infinite weekends, so there were no officials to ...
21st December 2024
Hope turns grief: Unhealed pains of mothers giving birth to dead babies
In many Nigerian communities, motherhood is celebrated as a woman’s ultimate fulfilment, and the birth of a child is met with immense joy and high expectations. However, when a woman gives birth to ...
14th December 2024
How criminals hypnotise before robbing, sexually molesting victims
In this report, Victor Ayeni delves into the chilling world of criminal hypnosis—a sinister tool used by criminals to rob, harm, and sexually assault their victims. He uncovers how this mind-alterin...
14th December 2024
Day I wrote ‘love letter’ to my principal
Last Saturday, I made a nostalgic visit to my alma mater, Mainland Senior High School. As I parked my small car by the roadside and stepped inside the school building, memories came rushing back like ...
14th December 2024
Erin-Ijesa waterfall: Tourist gem in ruins as neglect persists
Emotions ran high when the sad state of Oluminrin Water Falls, Erin-Ijesa, was brought to the attention of the world by a concerned visitor. In a brief yet powerful one-minute, 43-second video shared ...
7th December 2024
Scammers forge CAC certificates as Nigerians lose millions to fake declutter pages
As platforms continue to spring up on social media to help Nigerians declutter their household items in exchange for cash, VICTOR AYENI writes that more citizens are falling victim to scammers employi...
7th December 2024
