Society

A US-based Ghanaian woman was pushed to death by her boyfriend in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. “The victim aged 29 was pushed into the path of a moving vehicle on a highway,” according to reports. The unfortunate incident occurred on February 23, 2024, when a heated argument ensued …

An 80-year-old man has committed suicide at the Watch Tower in the Araromi Imota rea of Lagos State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The deceased hung himself with a rope in the kitchen,” according a tenant. “The lifeless body of the tenant hanging on a rope that was tied to the …

More than 280 schoolchildren have been abducted by dozens of armed men in the town of Kuriga in northwest Nigeria, according to reports. “The pupils were in the assembly ground when dozens of gunmen on motorcycles rode through the school,” according to a witness said. “The students, between the ages …

The lifeless body of a 26-year-old man was discovered in bizarre circumstances in the municipality of Mfantseman, in the Central Region of Ghana. “The victim was found dead in Baifikrom cemetery with multiple bullet and cutlass wounds on his body,” according to reports. His body was discovered by some residents …

A mother of three children has committed suicide in Enugu State over the unbearable economic hardship and rising cost of living in Nigeria. “The woman had gone to the Ogui Police Station in the Enugu North Local Government Area of the state and dropped her three kids, without leaving a …

Ghana is set to commence salt production on a large scale as the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. In his 67th Independence Day celebration address at Koforidua, he attributed the feat to the Ada Songhor Salt project, led by Electrochem Salt Mine Limited. This development Akufo-Addo expressed confidence …

The United Nations has called on members of parliament in The Gambia to withdraw a bill lifting the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). The Gambia’s parliament began examining the legislation on Monday. FGM was banned in The Gambia in 2015. Influential Muslim clerics have been pushing for the ban …

A devastating fire has ravaged through a house, reducing it to ashes at Appia Nkwanta in the Adansi Asokwa District of the Ashanti region, Ghana. “The intense inferno lasted over four hours and properties worth millions of cedis completely destroyed,” reports said. When personnel from the Fomena Fire Station arrived …

Jimmy Chérizier, alias “Barbecue”, considered the most powerful gang leader in Haiti, set the scene this Tuesday, March 5, for the crisis currently affecting the poorest country on the American continent. The gangs, which control entire swaths of Haiti and the capital, announced last week that they were ganging up …

In a study published on Monday March 4 by The Lancet Infectious Diseases, scientists from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Erlangen looked at the case of a 62-year-old German man from the city of Magdeburg (central Germany) who has been vaccinated no less than 217 times …