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Emergency agencies say efforts are ongoing to rescue unidentified number of people trapped in a building which collapsed on Thursday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The three-storey building, which was under construction, is in Gwarinpa, a residential suburb. Nkechi Isa, spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory Management Agency, said in …

Alerted by the death of a deer in the zoo in the city of Chilpancingo, in southern Mexico, local authorities have uncovered a vast system of embezzlement committed by the director, José Rubén Nava, who was removed from his post on January 12, reports the AP agency, relayed by The …

Gunmen in north central Nigeria have killed eight people, including a divisional police chief, Reuters agency reported, citing police and a security source source on Wednesday. This is the latest violence ahead of a presidential and parliamentary election later this month. Insecurity is a big issue for voters in this …

A four-year-old child died in England on Tuesday after being attacked by a dog, several British media reported, including Sky News. Police officers were called by emergency services to intervene in Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) in the south-east of the country. They were informed that a dog had attacked a child …

More than 50 countries warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday that they demanded that members of the UN organization who committed sexual abuse be prosecuted. People who have experienced sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment must also receive appropriate support, countries said at the UN health agency’s Executive Board …

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a trader who caused harm to a “Good Samaritan” to six months in hard labour as he hit him with a stick making him unconscious in Ghana, reports said. “The suspect was pursuing a thief and the complainant tried to advise him,” according to …

Founder of Life Assembly Worship Centre, Reverend Christian Kwabena Andrew popularly known as Osofo Kyiri Abosom said he will ban the importation of condoms into the country if he becomes President of Ghana. Guest on Dadwene TV, the pastor expressed his opposition to the use of condoms. According to him, …

A 30-year-old fetish priest is currently in the clutches of the police in connection with the investigation of the disappearance of an Okada driver at Assin OtabilKrom in Assin South, Ghana. The victim got missing after he received a call to pick up a pillion rider from one of the …

A 78-year-old Kenyan man’s private part was allegedly bitten off by his daughter-in-law as he attempted to resolve a physical fight between her and a lady. “He was called by his grandson while eating to separate a fight between her daughter in-law and a lady,” he told Citizen TV kenya. …

A family of three has been burnt to death in a domestic fire at Abuakwa Nsonyameye in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti region, Ghana, according to reports. A mother aged, 28, the daughter of the landlady and her two children aged nine and six years. “The mother …