Africa

Two secondary school students of Monatan High School, Ibadan, have been arrested for raping a 17-year-old girl in the Oluyole Local Government Area in Nigeria. The victim was lured into an unfinished building and raped by the suspects. Her schoolmates threatened to expose her if she didn’t settled them financially …

Amnesty criticizes Senegal for its failures in the fight against the abuse of students in Koranic schools and their financial exploitation, in a report published on Monday, calling on Dakar to “strong acts” to protect them. “Tens of thousands of talibé children (students in Koranic schools commonly known as daaras) …

Nigerian police arrested a 75-year-old man, for defiling his four-year-old niece in the Obi Local Government Area, local media reported. The investigation revealed that the suspect lured his niece into his room and purposely had illegal carnal relations with her, as they both live in the same house. She was …

A 36-year-old judge who was declared wanted by the police over the brutal murder of his wife, hanged himself in a church in Zimbabwe. He strangled his wife to death with his bare hands and went on to rape her corpse in front of their children, a 12-year-old daughter and …

Famous Nigerian musician Wizkid has apologized to Ghanaians for not showing up for his scheduled performance at Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday. The Nigerian superstar was due to appear at the Accra Sports stadium on Saturday. But he was a no-show, leaving many of his Ghanaians fans angry, including those …

Nigerian Afrobeats star D’banj has been released from the custody of Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, ICPC, the musician’s lawyer has said. “The ICPC released D’banj… after the agency could not find anything incriminating on him,” said a statement signed by Pelumi Olajengbesi, D’banj’s lawyer. D’banj was arrested earlier this week on …

A woman has reportedly been shot by gunmen while driving in a Prado in Caprice on the Circle-Nsawam Highway in Ghana. According to Adom News, witnesses said they suspect the robbers followed the victim as the passengers fired indiscriminately at the car as they approached. “They went down to unlock …

The decomposing body of a three-day-old baby was found inside a polythene bag in a manhole at Oklu Nkwanta, a suburb of Kasoa Ofaakor in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of Ghana’s Central Region. According to eyewitnesses, their concern grew after they saw the polythene bag in the manhole and …

South Africa’s passenger rail agency (Prasa) has banned preaching, gambling and informal trading in its new trains, local media outlets report. The move is among measures meant to ensure that “one particular behavioural system of any other group cannot be imposed on other commuters on board”, the agency’s spokesperson Lilian …

The world’s longest-serving president, Equatoguinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has just begun his controversial new sixth term. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who is 80, took the presidential oath before inspecting a military parade. He declared he was – and always would be – the leader of all Equatorial Guineans. On …