Africa

A court in Busan, South Korea, on Wednesday sentenced two employees of the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) to nine years in prison each for sexual assault, local media report. Moses Owen Brown and Daniel Tarr had been detained in South Korea since last year for allegedly raping two Korean teenagers, …

A 17-year-old boy has met his untimely death after a dilapidated abandoned bridge fell on him and killed him at Gomoa Nyanyano in the Central region, Ghana. The deceased was returning from school when the bridge broke and trapped him. “He got hit by a huge slab killing him instantly,” …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called on African leaders to reject “the promotion of homosexuality”, hinting that he would sign the controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill, passed by parliament last month. This bill, which provides for the death penalty for aggravated homosexuality and life imprisonment for recruitment, promotion and financing of homosexual …

24 suspects were arrested for alleged involvement in cultism, armed robbery, terrorism and other criminal activities in the Ogun state, Nigeria. “The suspects confessed to being members of the Eiye, Vikings and Aiye confraternities,” according to the state Police Public, Abimbola Oyeyemi. “The arrest of the suspects followed the recent …

A Federal High Court in Lagos State in Nigeria has sentenced a 49-year-old businessman to six years imprisonment for illegally exporting 9.40kg of cocaine, reports said. “The convict was arrested on March 4, 2023, during the outward clearance of passengers of a Qatar Airways flight to India via Doha, at …

A Nigerian court has given the owner of a noisy rooster until Friday to slaughter it after a noise pollution complaint by neighbours, local media reported. The court in the northern city of Kano declared the cockerel a nuisance to the neighborhood for its relentless crowing that two neighbours said …

The body of a 36-year-old lady was found dead near Jamhuri Primary School in Nairobi County, Kenya, according to reports. “The deceased left class in a hurry after she received a phone call from a friend inviting her out for coffee,” a classmate said. “She informed them that she was …

At least 10 students from the Government Secondary School in Kaduna state were abducted during an attack in northwest Nigeria, reports said. “The exact location of the incident is yet to be ascertained but detailed reports being awaited will clarify whether the incident occurred within the school premises or elsewhere,” …

Men of the Kano State Police Command have arrested a man for strangling his 22-year-old pregnant girlfriend in Tudun-Wada Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria, reports said. “We received information from a Good Samaritan that a lady was seen lying on the roadside, unconscious on Kano-Jos Road in Anadaria …

An Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court has remanded a 27-year-old man for defiling a nine-month-old baby belonging to a neighbor in the Ijora-Badia area of Lagos, Nigeria. “The 16-year-old mother of the baby had her child in the care of the suspect to buy noodles not too far from her home,” …