West Africa

One person has been reported dead with another in critical condition in an accident involving a military vehicle at Bawku in the Upper East Region, Ghana. Two are said to have sustained various degrees of injuries. They were rushed to Vineyard Hospital where one was pronounced dead. They were traveling …

Assailants have burnt down the Divisional Police Headquarters in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria, according to reports. The assailants, who came in large numbers, stormed the police premises and began shooting sporadically, frightening the police officers on duty, before setting fire to the building. The gunmen …

Unidentified gunmen have killed a youth and dumped his body by the roadside as he was abducted at Okpuno in the Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. “He was kidnapped along Geneva Hotel Road and his lifeless body was found by the roadside,” according to information. “It …

A 31-year-old man has been arrested for killing his 49-year-old girlfriend in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria, according to reports. The suspect fled the crime scene as he stole her car, mobile phones, and other properties. “I have used a pestle to perform the dastardly act …

A father called for justice after four teenagers raped his eight-year-old daughter in the Bariga area of Lagos State, Nigeria. “My daughter has been sexually molesting by them when no one was around as she was living with her aunt due to the absent of my wife,” the victim’s father …

A Delta State-based woman has been reportedly arrested and remanded in Anambra State for her alleged role in luring four university female students into prostitution in her state, Nigeria, according to reports. Four female students were lured by the woman from Akwa Ibom State to Agbor in Delta State, after …

A man, traveling with his family, died in an accident when his vehicle collided with an oncoming truck, with a foreign number, on the Cape Coast-Elmina stretch of the Accra Highway, according to reports. He was reportedly driving his nephew to the Kotoka International Airport in Accra and was about …

A 40-year-old mother is reportedly dead after a Toyota tundra vehicle veered off the road and ran into a nearby shop at Buokrom Estate Junction in Kumasi, Ghana, according to reports. The victim was selling in her makeshift shop, with her nine-year-old son. The car smashed the structure reducing it …

A policeman attached to the Ajah Police Station shot dead a female lawyer as she was trying to make a U-turn under the Ajah Bridge in Lagos state. “The victim, his sister and four children were leaving a restaurant in their, when the police officer tried to stop them,” according …

The lifeless body of a five-month pregnant woman was found in a well after she went to fetch water with her three children at Sekondi Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. The children who were oblivious to what happened returned home alone and did not raise an alarm. The …