West Africa

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 …

At least 15 people have died in a boat accident in Shagari Local Government Area in Nigeria’s Sokoto State as the boat they were in was en route to Maulaudi. The local government’s Chairman, Aliyu Shagari, said the incident happened on Tuesday evening and confirmed the death of 15 people. …

A 21-year-old student of Assin Manso Senior High School, Ghana is on the verge of losing her sight as she also suffers a stroke after allegedly being whipped by her teacher. Her condition is deteriorating as her vision is blurred with her mobility also affected due to the incident, according …

A 37-year-old sales representative has been charged in a magistrate’s court with allegedly stealing four Bibles from a supermarket in Nigeria. The prosecutor, Inspector Felicia Okwori said the defendant was at the supermarket in December and stole two bibles, an operation that was captured on CCTV. “The defendant came again …

Police Command in Ellembelle, Ghana, arrested a midwife and her husband, a trained teacher, for abandoning their four-year-old child in a forest ostensibly to die. The couple handed over the baby to a fetish priest after they suspected she was an evil child, according to the assembly member for the …

A parish priest in charge of St. Joseph Parish has been abducted in Nigeria’s Anambra state since October 12, the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha said in a statement. He was said to have been abducted by gunmen while returning after celebrating a Funeral Vigil Mass at Umunnachi in the Njikoka …

Nigeria’s Security and Civil Defence Corps arrested five men in Sokoto State after discovering that they consistently sodomized a seven year old boy. The suspects include the young boy’s uncle and other four men. They sodomized the boy until his vital area was damaged, local media reported. The boy said …

A 12-year-old girl died of drowning in the Dejebo River in the Nkwanta south of Ghana’s Oti region while trying to rescue a friend. The victim, Efa, was carried away by the river when she went out with her friend to fetch firewood after the heavy downpour on Saturday. She …

A man and his family in Ghana are jubilant as his wife gave birth two years later after becoming pregnant, local media reported. The man shared testimonies and recounted the incident that led to his wife giving birth. He said his wife took seeds in 2020, but soon after the …

Female motorist has caused accident in Agege area, Lagos State, Nigeria after hitting a tricycle carrying a pregnant woman, an elderly lady and a girl, local media reported. Reports said those carried by the tricycle unfortunately lost their lives. An eyewitness said, “A woman was driving a private car at …