West Africa

The US says it has “serious doubts” about the credibility of Equatorial Guinea’s election results that saw the world’s longest-serving president continue his 43-year-rule. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 80, secured almost 95% of votes, according to election officials. “Given the scale of irregularities observed and the announced results giving the …

A woman known as a popular shopkeeper who operated her own provision store at Breman Essiam has committed suicide in her farm in the Central Region, Ghana. She went missing and residents thought she had traveled to visit her children. Several calls were made to reach her children to find …

Nigerian authorities have approved a 14-day paternity leave for men in public service, to bond properly with their newborn or adopted baby. The new measure announced on Monday by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, dated 25th November, 2022. “Government has also approved Paternity …

Three pupils of the Akure High School were arrested for gang-raping a female colleague in a bush on the premises of the school in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Nigeria. The victim went into the bush to defecate during break period and on her way back, the three pupils accosted …

A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the Nigerian state of Bauchi for stabbing to death a friend who failed to buy him beer at a bar. A discreet investigation conducted by the detectives attached to the command revealed that the suspect went to a beer parlor where he met …

Police in Nigeria’s Bauchi State arrested a 20-year-old housewife for killing her co-wife by using a pestle to hit her on the head, leading to her death. The incident was reported by the suspect’s husband. He said his second wife armed with a pestle entered his first wife room and …

A man has died after hanging himself from the flyover near the NNPC gas station on the Sanni Abacha highway in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found by passers-by dangling on the rail of the flyover. While some residents believed that the deceased was …

Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old man suspected homosexual for raping a five-year-old boy to death. Upon the report, the DPO Ogijo division, CSP Enatufe Omoh, quickly detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. The suspect confessed being an homosexual and that while …

Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command announced the arrest of a woman and a 19-year-old boy, for robbing traders with toy guns. The suspects were arrested during an operation at Adesan, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. It was discovered that they came to rob the shop …

Armed robbers have killed a 10-year-old Togolese girl for witnessing their operation when she was sent to get charcoal in Ota, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. A female friend of the girl’s mother sent the girl to her house to get her charcoal. When she …