Society

Amotekun Police in Nigeria’s Ekiti State have arrested two men suspected of plotting to use a 17-year-old apprentice for ritual purposes in the state capital. The suspects were arrested while attempting to slit the lady’s throat, but luck deserted them. One of the suspects said to have ambushed the victim …

A 23-year-old native doctor was arrested by the Enugu State Police Command for shooting his client to death while testing gunshot charms at his shrine in the Umuaram area of the state, Nigeria. He was arrested after the case was reported to the Isi-Uzo Police Division. He confessed to have …

A woman known as a popular shopkeeper who operated her own provision store at Breman Essiam has committed suicide in her farm in the Central Region, Ghana. She went missing and residents thought she had traveled to visit her children. Several calls were made to reach her children to find …

Three pupils of the Akure High School were arrested for gang-raping a female colleague in a bush on the premises of the school in Akure, the Ondo State capital, Nigeria. The victim went into the bush to defecate during break period and on her way back, the three pupils accosted …

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly asked her services on Monday to summon the Russian ambassador to Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, following a series of anti-LGBT+ tweets, including one targeting an openly lesbian federal minister. Messages posted by the Russian Embassy’s Twitter account echo the Duma’s adoption last week of a bill …

A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the Nigerian state of Bauchi for stabbing to death a friend who failed to buy him beer at a bar. A discreet investigation conducted by the detectives attached to the command revealed that the suspect went to a beer parlor where he met …

Police in Nigeria’s Bauchi State arrested a 20-year-old housewife for killing her co-wife by using a pestle to hit her on the head, leading to her death. The incident was reported by the suspect’s husband. He said his second wife armed with a pestle entered his first wife room and …

Civil society groups in Kenya are complaining about a chronic shortage of free condoms across the country. The life-saving products are usually imported and distributed for free but due to high taxes suppliers are no longer providing Kenya with free condoms. The activists want the government to remove taxes on …

A man has died after hanging himself from the flyover near the NNPC gas station on the Sanni Abacha highway in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found by passers-by dangling on the rail of the flyover. While some residents believed that the deceased was …

Every day, marriages are made, unmade and according to a study of a French website, the first name of a person would determine his fidelity or his infidelity cause infidelity turns out to be one of the main causes of divorce. Gleeden, the website dedicated to extramarital dating, which has …