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Identical twins Taiwo and Kehinde Oluyale both graduated with First Class Honours in Building Technology from FUTA. Taiwo emerged Overall Best Graduating Student of the 2021 set with a 4.89 CGPA, while Kehinde followed closely with 4.82.
In many homes, one child quietly becomes the family's emotional backbone, always helping, always yielding, always understanding. But beneath the calm exterior is a child who is slowly growing resentful, exhausted, and invisible. It's time parents saw them.
You've been quietly measuring yourself against their grades, their choices, their wins. But here's the twist nobody prepared you for: the sibling you've been competing with is also your loudest cheerleader. What do you do with that kind of love?
A 12-year-old girl suffered severe burns and permanent finger deformity after a host family allegedly punished her over a false accusation of stealing ₦500. Neighbours rescued her, and police later found another family member had confessed to taking the money.
Abia Police have arrested Sara Innocent for allegedly stabbing her husband, Innocent Nwaoji, to death during a domestic dispute in Obingwa. The victim died at the hospital while investigations continue at the State Criminal Investigation Department.
Lagos Police have arrested a 38-year-old man, Michael, and another suspect over the alleged sexual assault of his 13-year-old stepdaughter in Agege. The victim, who fled home before confiding in her biological father, has been taken for medical examination ahead of further investigation.
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Lagos environmental task force KAI rescued four nursing mothers and their babies, including a nine-day-old infant, from an illegal dumpsite along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway during an ongoing inter-agency cleanup, and says they are now receiving medical care.
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Some children never raise their voice, never cause a scene, never need reminding twice. That calm can look like peace. Sometimes it's a quiet child working overtime to stay unseen, and that's the alarm every parent should learn to hear.
In many homes, one child can do no wrong, and another can do no right. It rarely feels intentional. But those quiet labels, formed in childhood, often follow our children long after they've left our house and our watch.
Your child didn't wake up one morning and decide to become a problem. Something shifted in them, around them, or between you, and the difficulty is their only available language for it. Once you understand what's underneath the behaviour, everything changes. Everything.
When your child starts dreading school, faking stomach aches, going quiet on Sunday evenings, or crying at the gate, something has broken down in the one place they spend most of their waking hours. This is what you do next. Calmly. Decisively. Together.
Your child hasn't gone quiet because they have nothing to say. They've gone quiet because somewhere along the way, they learnt that saying it wasn't safe or wasn't worth it. The silence is not the problem. The silence is the message. Are you listening?
She is the first one awake and the last one asleep. She holds the home together with an invisible thread, and nobody notices when that thread starts to fray. This is for every woman quietly unravelling while still showing up. You are seen. You are not alone.
Nollywood actress Judy Austin has filed a N1 billion defamation lawsuit against her colleague and co-wife, Rita Edochie, before an Abuja High Court, demanding a public retraction, apology, and removal of allegedly defamatory statements made against her.
Courtney Clenney, who fatally stabbed her Nigerian boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, in 2022, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and will serve about two years after a plea deal reducing her original second-degree murder charge in a Miami court.
Actress Judy Austin has sued her ex-husband, Emmanuel Obasi, before an Abuja High Court, demanding N1 billion in damages over alleged defamatory statements. She is also seeking a public retraction, apology and a restraining order against further defamatory posts.
The DSS has released carpenter Mustapha Marwana, arrested over the abduction and killing of pupils and teachers in Oyo State, after investigators found no evidence linking him to the attack. He received N3 million compensation on the orders of DG Tosin Ajayi.
A father's voice is the first voice a daughter uses to measure her own worth. Not his money, not his status — his presence, his words, his time. The lessons he gives her quietly, daily, and sometimes without knowing it, are the ones she will carry longest into her future.
You loved them before they arrived. You rearranged your whole life around them, and you did it willingly. But somewhere between the school runs and the bedtime routines, you quietly stopped recognising yourself. This is a conversation every honest parent needs to have with themselves.
Every parent starts from love. But love without awareness can quietly cross a line from shielding your child from harm to shielding them from life itself. Learning the difference between protecting and controlling is the decision that determines the kind of adult your child becomes.
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Nobody hands you a manual when you become a parent. You make decisions with what you have, and sometimes what you have isn't enough. Saying "I was wrong" isn't a crack in your authority — it's the foundation of the trust your children will build their entire lives on.
Many African fathers love deeply but speak softly, sometimes too softly. The words "I love you" get swallowed by provision, discipline, and duty. But children don't just need a father who works hard for them. They need one who says it out loud.