Africa

A 21-year-old student of Assin Manso Senior High School, Ghana is on the verge of losing her sight as she also suffers a stroke after allegedly being whipped by her teacher. Her condition is deteriorating as her vision is blurred with her mobility also affected due to the incident, according …

A 37-year-old sales representative has been charged in a magistrate’s court with allegedly stealing four Bibles from a supermarket in Nigeria. The prosecutor, Inspector Felicia Okwori said the defendant was at the supermarket in December and stole two bibles, an operation that was captured on CCTV. “The defendant came again …

Police Command in Ellembelle, Ghana, arrested a midwife and her husband, a trained teacher, for abandoning their four-year-old child in a forest ostensibly to die. The couple handed over the baby to a fetish priest after they suspected she was an evil child, according to the assembly member for the …

Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba known for his controversial tweets, says “no one will ban him from anything.” His tweet comes a day after his father, President Yoweri Museveni, directed that he will no longer comment on government affairs on Twitter. But Mr Kainerugaba said he is “an adult” and no …

A parish priest in charge of St. Joseph Parish has been abducted in Nigeria’s Anambra state since October 12, the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha said in a statement. He was said to have been abducted by gunmen while returning after celebrating a Funeral Vigil Mass at Umunnachi in the Njikoka …

Nigeria’s Security and Civil Defence Corps arrested five men in Sokoto State after discovering that they consistently sodomized a seven year old boy. The suspects include the young boy’s uncle and other four men. They sodomized the boy until his vital area was damaged, local media reported. The boy said …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said his son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, will no longer comment on government affairs on Twitter. It follows a social media storm a fortnight ago when Gen Kainerugaba, 48, tweeted about invading neighbouring Kenya and conquering its capital, Nairobi, in two weeks. President Museveni later asked …

A 12-year-old girl died of drowning in the Dejebo River in the Nkwanta south of Ghana’s Oti region while trying to rescue a friend. The victim, Efa, was carried away by the river when she went out with her friend to fetch firewood after the heavy downpour on Saturday. She …

A man and his family in Ghana are jubilant as his wife gave birth two years later after becoming pregnant, local media reported. The man shared testimonies and recounted the incident that led to his wife giving birth. He said his wife took seeds in 2020, but soon after the …

Female motorist has caused accident in Agege area, Lagos State, Nigeria after hitting a tricycle carrying a pregnant woman, an elderly lady and a girl, local media reported. Reports said those carried by the tricycle unfortunately lost their lives. An eyewitness said, “A woman was driving a private car at …