Society

Police in Nigeria say suspected Biafran separatists have shot dead a traditional ruler and his two aides in the south-eastern state of Imo, local media reported. The gunmen visited the palace in Oguta under the guise of reporting an emergency situation before opening fire. It was not immediately clear why …

A 39-year-old tricyclist beat his colleague to death after he got into a fight in the Oke-Aro axis of Akure South Local Government Area in Ondo State, Nigeria, local media reported. He was said to have been hit in a delicate spot that made him collapse and fainted but was …

A thief posed as a guest at the wedding to get access to the head table was caught red-handed stealing phones of bride and bridesmaid. He almost ruined the wedding when the service was interrupted after he was caught red-handed stealing. Reports indicate that the thief stole the bride and …

An 80-year-old woman was murdered and her body parts cut off in the Assin North District of the Central Region, Ghana. A research was organized by the Chiefs and elders as she left her house to the farm but could not come back. Her lifeless body was found and an …

A 22-year-old lady was shot by an unknown gunman as she visited her fiancée at his house in the Tamale Metropolis of the Northern Region, Ghana. She visited her boyfriend during which the unknown gunman attacked the house and in the process, shot her, her family said. It is not …

Voices are being raised in South Africa for pit bull dogs to be banned as pets, after an eight-year-old child was allegedly mauled to death last Saturday by a pit bull. According to reports, South Africa has one of the highest numbers of deaths related to dog attacks in the …

An old Benz school car carrying about 25 pupils on Terchire-Adrobaa Street in the Tano North district of Bono Region, Ghana was involved in an accident which left four dead and several others injured. Eyewitnesses narrated that the driver slid off the slippery road upon getting to a sharp curve, …

Market vendors in Essam-Debiso, Ghana are in shock after discovering a jar containing objects believed to be used for ritual purposes at the heart of the market. The pot concoction was discovered when the traders went to the market for business. The pot containing a live snake, a headless vulture, …

A 25-year-old man was arrested by Nigeria’s Bauchi State police, for the kidnapping and horrible murder of a five-year-old child. Investigation revealed that the suspect lured the victim into his room with sweets. Later, he called the victim’s father on phone and threatened him to bring the sum of 5 …

A woman reportedly left a taxi, walked to the third continental bridge in Nigeria, climbed it and jumped into a lagoon, after a stormy argument with her fiancé, local media reported. The cab driver said she was having a heated conversation with her fiancé before she got out of the …