West Africa

Two brothers were arrested by Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while trying to escape with stolen Toyota car to Imo State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, explained that the suspects, who worked at a car wash, stole the car from a customer who took …

Two children abandoned by their mothers were rescued by the Lagos State Police Command in the Marina area of the state. Marina’s patrol team saw the two underage boys on the highway about to be run over by high-speed vehicles. The children were identified as five-year-old and three-year-old. “The boys …

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a commercial bus driver and his 18 passengers in Ochadamu, the Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. The bus driver was conveying the passengers to their destinations in Abuja when the gunmen laid a siege to the vehicle and abducted the driver and the 18 …

Two students of Community Secondary School, in Mile Diobu, Port Harcourt, were arrested for indulging in erotic acts in a secluded classroom in the school premises and two others for sharing the video. The students were filmed by their classmate without their knowledge. The video of the erotic scene was …

A fight between deputies broke out Thursday in the Senegalese Parliament after controversial remarks by an elected official about a religious leader who is a member of the opposition, according to images authenticated by AFP. An opposition deputy first slapped this parliamentarian, Amy Ndiaye, who retaliated by throwing a chair …

A 25-year-old man was arrested for whipping his three-year-old daughter to death after the child entered his neighbor’s apartment in Delta State, Nigeria. He whipped the baby, who was ill for some time, with a cane and inflicted bodily harm on him, for entering the neighbor’s apartment. He fled the …

A court in Nigeria has sentenced inspector general of police, Usman Alkali Baba, to three months in prison for disobeying an earlier order to reinstate an officer who has waged a lengthy battle to get back his job. Officer Patrick Okoli has been fighting his forced retirement since 1992. He …

A 25-year-old farmer and his girlfriend were murdered by an unknown assailant at midnight in the Sunyani West Municipality of the Bono Region, Ghana, local media reported. Assembly Member for Abronye Electoral Area, Dognekoh Atta Kwasi Snr, revealed that on Sunday, around 8:30am, he had a call that someone had …

The Nigerian government has announced a policy aimed at promoting the teaching of primary school pupils in local languages rather than in English. Education Minister Adamu Adamu told journalists on Wednesday that the new framework known as the National Language Policy had been approved for implementation. It stipulates that instruction …

Nigerian police arrested a woman for beheading her 11-month-old son at Ugep in the Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. The circumstances of the incident could not be immediately determined. The woman had been arrested, said the state Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo, “Investigation is …