Nigeria’s first millionaire.

Jaja of Opobo, the man who rose against the odds of poverty and colonial rule to become Nigeria’s first international trader and a millionaire in the 19th century was born as Mbananso Okwaraozurumbaa in a small village in Orlu in what is now Imo State in present-day Nigeria. The founder and king of a prosperous city, he is popularly known as Jaja Opogo, a name given to him by the British which later became his household name. To the Igbos, he is known as Jaja Jubogba or Jo Jo Ubam. He is regarded as a hero who left a mark of great significance in the history of Nigeria and West Africa.

Girl, 16, loses her baby and will never walk again after getting her breast tattooed and it became infected.

A pregnant teenager has lost her baby and been left in a wheelchair after a tattoo on her breast became infected. Luisa Fernanda, from central Colombia's Casanare Department, fell ill after having the tattoo on her right breast.

Teenager, 16, died from a hairball in her stomach after she chewed her own hair

A 16-year-old has tragically died after a hairball in her stomach became infected. Jasmine Beever, from Skegness, collapsed in college on 7 September and was sent home to rest. After coming out in "blotches", she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance where doctors fought to keep her alive. She was successfully resuscitated for 15 minutes, but then passed away later that evening.

Some neighborhoods lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there.

There’s a hopeful new sign that how we build our cities, and specifically, how good a job we do of building mixed-income neighbourhoods that are open to everyone can play a key role in reducing poverty and promoting equity. New research shows that neighbourhood effects the impact of peers, the local environment, neighbours contribute significantly to success later in life.

Migrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City.

In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room.