West Africa

Sixteen people were found kidnapped in a single room at Ankaful Zongo in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly in the Central Region of Ghana. The victims, aged 12 and 20, are believed not to be Ghanaians as they were unable to speak any local language. They are suspected to be …

Authorities in Burkina Faso on Monday announced the suspension of France 24 broadcasts in the country after the TV station aired an interview with the head of al Qaeda’s North African wing AQIM, Reuters reported. France 24 earlier this month aired an interview with Yezid Mebarek, also known as Abu …

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos has sentenced a 51-year-old man to life imprisonment for defiling his colleague’s nine-year-old daughter, Nigeria. “The need for proper and good parentage cannot be undermined at this age and time where defilement and rape are the order of the day,” …

Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery and kidnapping of a woman in Nigeria, reports said. “The victim was kidnapped while she was about to leave her house,” according to the state Director of Public Prosecution, Dr Babajide Martins. The …

Some suspected herdsmen have attacked and murdered a 49-year-old man in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. “The victim was working on his fishing camp in the bush when the armed men shot at and killed him, “reports said. A farmer from the community was also shot …

Four students of Eleyele Secondary School have been arrested for raping and defiling a 16-year-old schoolmate who was mentally unstable in Ibadan, Nigeria, according to reports. “The police charged the minors with conspiracy and unlawful sexual intercourse,” reports said. “The students conspired to commit the offense,”according to Inspector Folake Ewe, …

A former Black Stars player Emmanuel Oblitey has died at the Joy Specialist Medical Clinic in Accra, Ghana, according to reports. He died on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at the age of 69. The former Black Stars was a member of the Africa Cup of Nations winning squad in 1963. …

A grandmother set fire to her son, wife and two grandchildren in Apomu community in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, Nigeria. The old woman complained of being starved of food while living with her son in the same house. “She set the house ablaze while the family members were …

19 people have sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident at Gomoa Onyaadze on the Kasoa-Cape Coast Highway, Ghana, according to reports. “The unfortunate incident occurred after the back tyre of a sprinter bus with number GN 3452-17 travelling from Adubiase burst,” according to Adom News. This caused the …

The lifeless body of a man was found hanging in an uncompleted building at Tanokrom, a community in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region, Ghana. The man was found hanging on a rope in the building by residents and they rushed to inform the the assembly member of Tanokrom …