West Africa

A majority of Ghana’s ruling party parliamentarians on Tuesday asked the president to sack finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his deputy, in order to “restore hope in the financial sector”. Speaking on behalf of 80 of the 137 NPP members, Andy Appiah-Kubi said the members of parliament would not take …

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says a federal high court has ordered the final seizure of properties owned by former petroleum resources minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. This is the latest court ruling related to corruption allegations against her – charges she denies. Ms Alison-Madueke served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister between …

A family with 5 children has no choice but to sleep in a bush poultry structure in bad weather due to unpaid rent in Breman Asikuma, Ghana, Adom News reported. The landlord, who could no longer grant the couple the continued deferral of rent payment, evicted the family from their …

Congregants of the Living Faith Church in Nigeria are in a state of bewilderment after their resident pastor, 68, collapsed and died after a morning prayer program held at the church premises. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Church’s Associate Pastor, Edwin Okolo, confirmed the death in …

A 27-year-old man beat his girlfriend to death with a pestle at Dodo Amanfrom in Kadjebi Akan district of Ghana’s Oti region, AdomNews reported. The 24-year-old victim was found in her own pool of blood on her boyfriend’s bedroom bed as her mouth was swollen with blood everywhere. The suspect …

Eighteen people, including two policemen, were killed in a violence clash between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria’s Benue state. The violence broke out as herders stormed the farming village of Gbeji in Ukum district, firing indiscriminately, said Paul Hemba, security adviser to the Benue state governor. Mr Hemba said …

A former sex worker has revealed in an interview on Ghetto Life Story her reasons for getting out of prostitution. The 34-year-old woman said a client picked her up to sleep over at his house, but later found herself at the cemetery on the client’s grave at Awudome cemetery in …

The Ministry of Women and Social Welfare in Nigeria’s Anambra State announced the arrest of a middle-aged man separated from his wife, for abusing sexually two of his daughters. The children are aged three and five. They were rescued and first taken to Ntasi Centre, Enugwu-Ukwu, for medical examination and …

Five Nigerians were injured in a knife fight while sharing drinks during a birthday celebration for one of the Nigerians, at Buduburam ghetto, known as ‘Gab’, Gomoa East district of the central region. Police sources said a provocation from a guest from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle led to the bloody …

Lagos State Police Command announced the arrest of a 22-year-old primary school teacher and her boyfriend for brutalizing her two-year-old daughter and burning her buttocks. The suspect, teaches in a local school at Bariga, owned by her boyfriend’s mum. An Instagram platform, Instablog9ja, while speaking to a resident, said the …