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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 …

The body of a 36-year-old lady was found dead near Jamhuri Primary School in Nairobi County, Kenya, according to reports. “The deceased left class in a hurry after she received a phone call from a friend inviting her out for coffee,” a classmate said. “She informed them that she was …

At least 10 students from the Government Secondary School in Kaduna state were abducted during an attack in northwest Nigeria, reports said. “The exact location of the incident is yet to be ascertained but detailed reports being awaited will clarify whether the incident occurred within the school premises or elsewhere,” …

Men of the Kano State Police Command have arrested a man for strangling his 22-year-old pregnant girlfriend in Tudun-Wada Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria, reports said. “We received information from a Good Samaritan that a lady was seen lying on the roadside, unconscious on Kano-Jos Road in Anadaria …

An Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court has remanded a 27-year-old man for defiling a nine-month-old baby belonging to a neighbor in the Ijora-Badia area of Lagos, Nigeria. “The 16-year-old mother of the baby had her child in the care of the suspect to buy noodles not too far from her home,” …

A 26-year-old farmer has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for abusing a six-year-old girl at Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana, reports said. “The victim had gone to play with her friends at where the suspect lived,” reports said. The suspect lured the victim into his room, undressed the victim and …

A new case of death has been recorded this Monday, April 03, 2023 of a people affected by the Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea by the country’s health authorities. “This new case brings to 10 the number of dead people since more than two months that this virus close to …

Unknown gunmen dressed in police uniform shot and killed a man at Rumuokoro Junction in the Obio, Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, reports said. “The deceased, a volunteer traffic warden, was controlling traffic in Rumuokoro, an outskirt of Port Harcourt before the incident,” reports said. He was …

Tunisian President Kais Saied has appeared in a video posted on his official Facebook page, dismissing “mad” reports over his health following almost two weeks with no public engagements. The North African country’s main opposition coalition had pressed the government earlier to explain Saied’s public “absence”, saying it had information …

A day-old baby girl has been abandoned close to a church by the roadside in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State in Nigeria, reports said. “The baby girl was found by a resident who was on her way to a store in the area as she heard her …