West Africa

A farmer was stoned to death on suspicion of having an affair with another man’s girlfriend in Assin Otabilkrom, in the Assin South district of Ghana’s Central Region. “The suspect had information that his girlfriend had visited the deceased to spend the night with him,” reports said. The suspect then …

A father attacked a teacher who allegedly beat his daughter at Aces Nursery, Primary and Secondary School in Abuja, Nigeria. “The teacher was holding her three-month-old baby when her pupil’s father assaulted her,” according to reports. According to her,” the pupil was disturbing with others and were asked to kneel …

A 40-year-old man was shot dead by a policeman as he drove home from work along Azikoro Road in Yenagoa, the capital of Nigeria’s Bayelsa State. The deceased was an electrician from Bobougbene community in Burutu local government area of Delta State, and was carrying a passenger in the front …

Unicef ​​was moved this Wednesday, May 29 by an “alarming” increase of 70% in serious violence against children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, Sahelian countries prey to jihadism and abuse by a multitude of armed actors. “During the last three months of 2023, the number of serious violations committed …

Twelve people have been killed in an armed attack on a popular market in the Nigerian state of Kaduna, accoording to reports. “Twenty people were injured in the attack,” according to Kajuru district chief, Kafra Kayino. “The wounded had been taken to hospital and an investigation had been launched to …

Many Nigerians have expressed outrage after the country’s national anthem was changed without much consultation. President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed into law the bill to revert to Nigeria’s old national anthem which was dropped by a military government in 1978. The newly re-adopted anthem, which begins “Nigeria, We Hail …

The lifeless body of a woman has been found in a bush along Amaraku-Umudim Road in Isiala-Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. “The deceased woman was pregnant and her upper garment removed by his attackers,” according to reports. “The woman had no blood stain as to be said …

Paul Okoye, one of the members of the Nigerian music duo P-Square, who have renamed themselves Rudeboy, got married for the second time on May 25 as the traditional wedding took place in Abia State, Nigeria. The singer has been divorce from his ex-wife in December 2022, with whom he …

A Nigerian commercial sex worker has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in hard labor for trafficking young girls into prostitution in Konongo in the Ashanti region, Ghana. According to police prosecution, “the accused person has been trafficking young girls from Nigeria to Konongo, exploited  them in prostitution, with some …

At least eight people were killed and around 150 villagers abducted when armed gangs on motorcycles burst into the village of Kuchi, in Niger State, central Nigeria. “The attackers, divided into groups of three per motorcycle, operated for three hours without encountering any resistance,” according to reports. “No help was …