A farm laborer has butchered his farm owner in a bush at Mawaninnha in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana. The 53-year-old woman farmer and a trader hired the laborer to take care of her cocoa farm in the area. “The suspect hit the owner of the …
Read More »Man killed for discovering the truth about his wife’s son
A 36-year-old lawyer was arrested for killing her husband, a 41-year-old attorney, after he discovered that their servant was his wife’s biological son in Ghana. “The late Barrister did not know that the boy who has been living with him in his house for years, was his wife’s son,” according …
Read More »24-year-old man shot dead in Ogun State
Suspected cultists have killed a 24-year-old man in Igode, Ogijo, the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, reports said. “The deceased, a native of Benue State, was shot dead at about 8 p.m.“ “The deceased was outside their house at Fakile in the Igode community, when the assailants …
Read More »Nigeria: father starves his two children to death
A 45-year-old man has been arrested for chaining and locking his two children in solitary confinement which led to their death in Ibiade, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. “The suspect, father of three accused his children of stealing,” reports said. “He chained and locked the children …
Read More »Three teenagers drown in White Volta river
A community in the Kassena Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region, was thrown into a state of mourning when two siblings and their friend got drowned in the White Volta River, Ghana. The deceased, all teenagers, were among eight others who had gone to the river to wash mango …
Read More »West Africa faces acute food shortages with thousands near famine, UN says
Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa will face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year peak spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and prices high, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic …
Read More »Former Gambian minister charged with crimes against humanity
Prosecutors in Switzerland have charged a former Gambian interior minister with crimes against humanity and other offences. They accuse Ousman Sonko of involvement in and failure to prevent systematic attacks on opponents of the former president, Yahya Jammeh. Mr Sonko held several senior posts in the authoritarian administration of Mr …
Read More »Woman sells her 18-year-old baby for N600,000
A 33-year-old woman has sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to offset her bank loan in Sango in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. “She borrowed money from a microfinance bank and was unable to pay back the money,” reports said. “The bank agents …
Read More »Man arrested for burying three-year-old child alive
A 30-year-old man from Sabuwar Santa in Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State has been arrested after allegedly abducting and burying a three-year-old boy alive in Nigeria. “The suspect was have buried the abducted boy alive despite collecting N150,000 out of the N800,000 ransom he demanded from his father,” …
Read More »Nigeria: church founder in court for raping two worshipers
A court in Ikeja charged with sexual offenses and domestic violence has remanded a cleric accused of raping two members of his church in Nigeria. The Clergyman is the founder of “I Reign Christian Ministry” in Kirikiri Correctional Center pending the fulfillment of his bail conditions. Justice Ramon Oshodi admitted …
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