West Africa

Former Ghanaian President John Mahama has been elected as the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the country’s largest opposition party, for next year’s elections. The former president was declared the winner on Sunday after securing 98.9% of the total valid votes in the party’s primaries held on …

Eight school children have drowned after a boat carrying them capsized at Faana in the Weija Gbawe municipality in Accra, Ghana, reports said. “The children were returning from school when the canoe was hit by a wave,” assemblyman of the Bortianor Electoral area said. “The 13-year-old canoe operator who survived …

An Akure pastor has been sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Ondo State High Court for deflowering and impregnating a 16-year-old girl in Ayede Ogbese, Akure North, Nigeria. “The victim’s family were a tenant to the defendant where he defiled and frequently had carnal knowledge of the victim,” …

The body of a man was found naked in a car by residents and passersby in Isheri, Ojodu Berger in Lagos, Nigeria, according to reports. “The man was found naked in a black Toyota car,” according to an eyewitness. “His corpse was lying across the front seats of the car …

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a tenant for assaulting his landlady in Olaniyi Street, Nigeria, reports said. “The defendant assaulted his landlady when she demanded him money for payment of his electricity bill,” reports said. “The defendant hit the complainant’s head against an iron gate which caused her …

A 26-year-old automobile technician was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for defiling his neighbor’s 12-year-old daughter in Nigeria. “The convict had sex with the minor repeatedly whenever he called her to come and watch a film on his phone in his room,” …

The Assin Fosu District Court has remanded a 34-year-old man in custody for subjecting his son to mutilation and torture after catching him at a gaming center in Ghana. “The father started to discipline the child right at the game center before extending the assault home,” the Chief Inspector Benjamin …

A federal university of Bayelsa State student reportedly collapsed and died after overdosing on a popular illicit synthetic drug known as Colorado in Nigeria, according to reports. “The deceased was celebrating a recent breakthrough on an Internet fraud deal with his friends when he accidentally consumed an excess of the …

A 29-year-old Internet fraudster has been arrested for plotting with his mother to use his sister for a money ritual in Lagos, Nigeria, according to reports. “My mother was the one who took me to a native doctor and i was asked to sacrifice a sibling i loved the most,” …

A 40-year-old man drowned in the Oda River while chasing a grascutter at Chiransa, in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. “Three hunters went to hunt for grasscutter in the bush before the incident,” according to the Unit Committee Chairman of the area, Benjamin Amponsah. They saw a …