West Africa

Two female police officers were reported dead and several injured in a fatal accident on their way for a sporting event in Nigeria. The deceased have been identified as Police Constable Godiya and Police Constable Kubra. According to the Police Command, they were traveling to Akwa Ibom state for a …

Adamawa Police Command arrested a 52-year-old man for raping a 13-year-old girl in Sangere Jabbi Lamba, Girei Local Government Area of State, Nigeria. The suspect, a Vice Principal of Government Girl’s Secondary School in Abba Murke in the Song Local Government Area, lured the victim to an uncompleted building and …

A 16-year-old girl has died while in labour at a native nurse’s house at New Ebu in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region, Ghana. The grandmother of the deceased sent her to a native nurse in the community for delivery and in the process, she bled profusely …

A 45-year-old carpenter has beaten his wife to death during an argument bordering on the owner of a private school in Nigeria’s Ogun state. The deceased and her husband were at home arguing over the owner of the property. The argument degenerated and the carpenter hit his wife with an …

A lady was arrested by the Lagos State police Command for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death at Agungi, in the Lekki area of the state, Nigeria. His stepfather reported the incident to the police after being briefed that his stepson had been stabbed by his girlfriend. He was rushed …

A 13-year-old girl escaped death after being hit in the back of the neck by an unidentified person at Pumpside in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central Region of Ghana. “My daughter was sweeping the compound when suddenly an unknown man appeared from a nearby bush and hit her …

Equatorial Guinea’s main opposition party says irregularities took place in the country’s general elections on Sunday in which the world’s longest-ruling leader, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, sought to extend his 43-year rule. The Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS) said it would not recognize the results of “the fraudulent elections” and …

A groom called off his wedding at the last minute, in Nigeria, after discovering that his wife was the mother of two children. The man said he trusted his lover so much but felt betrayed that she hid not one, but two children from him. In a trendy video, he …

A 30-year-old pregnant woman was stabbed in the neck to death by her rider, in Asabaham in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. She was a cement dealer and was seven-month-old pregnant. She went missing and was later found dead. Her lifeless body was found in her …

The electoral campaign for the presidential and legislative elections in Equatorial Guinea ends this Friday and it is now time for the elections scheduled for Sunday. More than 300,000 voters have been registered to take part in the Sunday elections. Opposition leaders Andrés Esono Ondo and Buenaventura Monsuy Asumu are …