by Admin | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A teenage girl who was forced into an arranged marriage at 14 has died in labour after suffering a brain hemorrhage. According to Huriyet daily news, Derya B was married in a religious ceremony and gave birth a week ago, aged 15. She died of complications related to giving birth at such a young age, it is believed. Derya died in a private hospital in Batman, east Turkey, yesterday October 17. Police are investigating the circumstances of her death. Gynecology expert Professor M.D. Aydan Biri told the Turkish paper: ‘It is dangerous for a child bride to get pregnant. The mortality rate is higher in adolescent prChild Bride Who Was Forced To Marry At 14 In Turkey, Dies In Labour. (Photo)egnancies. ‘The risks of high blood pressure, early birth or an intervention in the birth are higher. The pregnancies of children who have not completed their physical development and whose organs have not yet completely developed often end in death.’ According to charity Girls not Brides, there are 15 million girls married before the age of 18 every year, amounting to one every two seconds. The United Nations says one woman dies every two minutes in labour. Last week it was reported that a 12-year-old girl called Lan Lan in China is three months pregnant after she was sold into a forced marriage for £3,600. Two adults were arrested after police and doctors spoke to the youngster in...
by Admin | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Imagine! The photos was shared on social media by the boy, He wrote: No Kissing Baby And No Touching” then a Facebook user, Aguguo Ifechi who was familiar with the 14-year-old teen girl re-posted and shared some detail about her. See more...
by Admin | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has arrived in Nigeria from his base in the United States to respond to an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in relation to N4.75bn arms funds traced to him. The former minister arrived in Lagos from the United States enroute Amsterdam and headed for Abuja to keep an earlier scheduled appointment with the EFCC on Monday. The EFCC is investigating a firm, belonging o two sons of Obanikoro, Sylvan McNamara for receiving N4.75bn arms funds from the office of the former National Security Adviser between April 4, 2014, and December 15, 2014. The two sons are Babajide and Gbolahan. The commission is claiming with documentary proof that a total of N4.745bn was paid into the Diamond Bank account of Sylvan McNamara during the period. The minister arrived Abuja from Lagos by 7:45am and was heading to the EFCC to keep his appointment with the anti-graft agency as of the time of filing this story. The Head of Media and Publicity of EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, could not be reached for comments, as the calls to his mobile telephone did not connect. Details later… source:...
by Admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday detained the wife of former Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Precious Fani-Kayode in Ado Ekiti. Precious, who was a guest of Governor Ayodele Fayose, had gone to an Access Bank branch in Ado Ekiti around 3p.m. for transactions when she was detained by officials of the bank. Sensing that she was not being promptly attended, she inquired from officials what the problem was and was told she was being detained on the instruction of the EFCC. source:...
by Admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro. Obanikoro reported to the EFCC immediately after his arrival in Nigeria from the United States on Thursday. An aide of the Minister told our correspondent on the telephone that the former minister who reported to the commission by 1.20 pm had not been released by 8:59pm. Also a top operative of the commission said that the interrogation which commenced by 3pm was still ongoing and that the former minister would be detained till Tuesday to continue with the...
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