Society

A popular Nigerian singer has been arrested for allegedly assaulting and abducting a police officer who had detained him. Ice Prince, whose real name is Henry Zamani, was arrested at 03:00 on Friday for driving without car licence plates, said Lagos Police Command spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin. “He, thereafter, abducted the …

Police in Childersburg, Alabama State in the United States arrested Michael Jennings, African-American pastor of the local Vision of Abundant Life church, for watering his neighbors’ flowers. According to the pastor, his neighbors had commissioned him for this mission during their holidays in the mountains in the north of the …

Two brothers inflicted cutlass wounds on Ibrahim Indago, a farmer at Atta Ne Atta in the Asante Akyem South Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Adomonlive website reported. According to the website quoting Mr Indago, the two brothers assaulted the farmer following a misunderstanding about a goat. He revealed he was …

A man believed to be the last survivor of a now extinct indigenous community and who lived in isolation for nearly three decades in the Brazilian Amazon, has been found dead, authorities said. Known as the “Tanaru Indian”, he was found dead on August 23 in a Tanaru indigenous mud …

In an interview with the Norwegian press, Tesla boss, Elon Musk, said he was very concerned about the future of our civilization because of the drop in the birth rate. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, himself father of ten children, called on his contemporaries to have “more …

Air France announced the suspension of two of its pilots who had come to blows shortly after their Airbus A320 took off last June, BFMTV reported. The argument would have burst after one accidentally hit the other. Quickly, the tone went up and several slaps and blows were exchanged. A …

Two Colombian journalists were shot dead on Sunday in the north of the country by people riding motorbikes as they returned from reporting on a popular party in the Colombian Caribbean, local media reported Leiner Montero Ortega, 37, and Dilia Contreras Cantillo, 39, were driving on a road between cities …

Tributes have poured in for the Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi who died while competing in a race in the US, the BBC reported. He had been participating in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday where he reportedly suffered a fatal crash, according to a statement by his team. The 33-year-old …

More than 340,000 people in Chad are affected by flooding due to torrential rains, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). “The floods destroyed nearly 2,700 hectares of crops and farmland, increasing food insecurity. The number of people affected by the …

A man was killed by a lion in the zoo of Accra, Ghana’s capital, after having entered the enclosure of the felines, the government agency in charge of the protection of wild animals said on Monday. “Around noon today, Accra Zoo authorities on routine patrol spotted a middle-aged man who …