Society

A 75-year-old Jehovah’s Witness Evangelist is nowhere to be found after embarking on house-to-house evangelism at Kormantse-Kokodo near Mankessim in the Central Region, Ghana. The aged evangelist was always said to be active in the Church’s Evangelism ministry though she cannot speak well. “She left home to join colleague Jehovah’s …

A Ugandan pastor accused of raping a Latvian tourist after he allegedly invited her to his church has been arraigned in a Kampala court and remanded to Luzira prison, Dailymonitor reported. Pastor Joseph Collins Twahirwa appeared in a court in Kampala to answer rape charges brought against him following his …

A 99-year-old Kenyan man has married his girlfriend aged 40 after 20 years of dating as the lovebirds tied the knot in a colorful wedding ceremony. “it was his first marriage in the 99 years he has lived as for the lady she has three children from a previous relationship,” …

The bodies of a young mother and her son were discovered hanging in Ajoa, in the Western Region of Ghana, according to reports. The woman was hanging straight from a dry line rope while the young boy’s hands were tied before he was hanged. “She could be in her early …

A policeman shot a trader as police invaded the market to make an arrest, but was resisted by traders at Alaba Rago market in Lagos State, Nigeria. The situation resulted in a clash between the policemen from the Okokomaiko division and the traders. A policeman was said to have fired …

A tiger that escaped from a private farm in South Africa over the weekend has been killed, local media reported. The tiger was the subject of a massive search after it escaped from a farm in Walkerville, south of Johannesburg. It attacked a person, two dogs and a pig while …

A Zimbabwean Form 6 school girl, aged 17, has died within 30 minutes after she was bitten by the highly venomous snake a black mamba while in class. The deceased returned to the classroom after sports and was struck on the thigh by the black mamba, which had somehow slithered …

Argentina’s World Cup-winning captain, Lionel Messi has joined a campaign to help visually impaired Ethiopians. In a social media post, the football star said he was honoured to team up with assistive devices company OrCam to donate visual aids to Ethiopians. Impaired vision is one of the main public health …

A church building has suddenly collapsed, killing a two-year-old girl and also causing body injuries to a 45-year-old man at Abuakwa, kumasi, Ghana, according to reports. “The man and the girl were passing by when the building collapsed while the church building was under construction but caved in,” according to …

Chinese population, the world’s most populous country, fell in 2022 for the first time in six decades, an official body said on Tuesday. In total, 9.56 million births were registered last year, and did not compensate for the 10.41 million deaths, announced the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS) in a …