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A 19-year-old mother identified as Munirat Bagana, an indigene of Zuru Local Government Area of Kebbi State, has been arrested by the police in Sokoto for allegedly suffocated her newborn baby boy. The accused a student of Sokoto State School of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, was arrested on Monday after dumping the dead baby in a dustbin. Upon interrogation, Munirat denied killing the baby, with claims she had a stillbirth and the dead baby was premature. The Sokoto State police command PPRO, ASP Cordelia Nwawe, who paraded the suspect before newsmen, said she would soon be charged after investigation is concluded.

A 29-year-old handcart pusher, identified as Idris Yusuf, has been nabbed by the long arms of the law after Operatives of Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, LAGESC apprehended him yesterday for rather shocking reasons. Idris Yusuf was allegedly arrested for unsanitary and illegal disposal of human faeces under the bridge at Daleko area of Mushin, Lagos State. According to LAGESC, Yusuf was caught with human faeces tied in 27 bags. In lieu of the development, the house where the waste originated from has since been sealed off while investigations would be carried out.