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Gunmen have killed 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, according to reports. “47 people were killed in Umogidi village in Benue state and three other people had been slain in the same place,” the chairman of the Otukpo local government, Ruben Bako said. The motive …

A 43-year-old man has been stabbed to death at Sehwi Anhwiam in the Sehwi Wiawso Municipality of the Western North Region, Ghana. The deceased has been living together with the suspect in the same vicinity for a couple of years. He left behind four boys and a girl between the …

A provincial governor in north-east Burundi has dissolved the decision of a mayor to force a female resident out of the area after others “accused her of taking their husbands”, local media reported. A letter giving the woman 24 hours to leave signed by Butihinda district mayor Gilbert Ndikumasabo made …

A court in Busan, South Korea, on Wednesday sentenced two employees of the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) to nine years in prison each for sexual assault, local media report. Moses Owen Brown and Daniel Tarr had been detained in South Korea since last year for allegedly raping two Korean teenagers, …

A 17-year-old boy has met his untimely death after a dilapidated abandoned bridge fell on him and killed him at Gomoa Nyanyano in the Central region, Ghana. The deceased was returning from school when the bridge broke and trapped him. “He got hit by a huge slab killing him instantly,” …

24 suspects were arrested for alleged involvement in cultism, armed robbery, terrorism and other criminal activities in the Ogun state, Nigeria. “The suspects confessed to being members of the Eiye, Vikings and Aiye confraternities,” according to the state Police Public, Abimbola Oyeyemi. “The arrest of the suspects followed the recent …

More than 150 members of the Catholic clergy are accused of “horrible and repeated” pedophile acts on at least 600 children, from 1940 to 2002 in Maryland, US justice revealed on Wednesday, denouncing the “complicity” of the Church. These archdiocesan priests and staff “carried out repeated horrific acts on the …

A Brazilian woman spent ten hours in a grave before her cries for help enabled workers at the Visconde do Rio Branco cemetery, about 100 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro, to save her. The 36-year-old woman told police that she was attacked at her home and beaten up by …

A Federal High Court in Lagos State in Nigeria has sentenced a 49-year-old businessman to six years imprisonment for illegally exporting 9.40kg of cocaine, reports said. “The convict was arrested on March 4, 2023, during the outward clearance of passengers of a Qatar Airways flight to India via Doha, at …

A Nigerian court has given the owner of a noisy rooster until Friday to slaughter it after a noise pollution complaint by neighbours, local media reported. The court in the northern city of Kano declared the cockerel a nuisance to the neighborhood for its relentless crowing that two neighbours said …