Society

A haul of heroin hidden inside packs of baby food has been intercepted at Lagos’ main airport, according to police. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with smuggling 23kg (50lb) of the drug on a South African Airways from Johannesburg, said National Drug Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Femi Babafemi …

Two women died in shark attack while swimming in the Egyptian Red Sea, the country’s Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Authorities discovered the body of a Romanian tourist in her 40s hours after an attack that left a 68-year-old Austrian woman dead, two sources told Reuters According to the …

Six people have been sentenced to death in the Nigerian Muslim state of Bauchi and neighboring Plateau state, in two separate cases. In the mainly Muslim state of Bauchi, an upper Sharia court sentenced three men to death by stoning after they were found guilty of homosexual acts against children. …

Mobile phones become real tools that accompany us on a daily basis. Sometimes they even become work tools that we cannot do without. Always looking for innovation, smartphone manufacturers offer new features that can make our daily life easier. Especially since new applications are always ready to meet our expectations, …

Police in southern Nigeria say they detained a number of suspects linked to the kidnapping and murder of a Roman Catholic priest, the BBC reports. The priest, Christopher Odia, 41, was abducted on Sunday morning as he left his home in Edo state to conduct Mass. His body was later …

A woman and her six-year-old daughter in India were gang-raped after accepting an offer from a strange driver to help them reach their destination faster and easier, the Daily Mail has reported. The victims were returning from the holy site of Piran Kaliyar, a holy site for Muslims and Hindus …

Five people convicted of the murder of a man whose body parts they planned to sell have been sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour in Malawi, the BBC reported. Macdonald Masumbuka, who had albinism, was killed in 2018 in the southern district of Machinga. One of those sentenced to …

Mozambican police arrested nine people suspected of being linked to the torture and live burial of seven suspected cattle rustlers in the Manhiça district near the capital, Maputo, the BBC reported. The provincial police spokesman, Juarce Martins, confirmed the deaths and arrests. The identity of the victims had not yet …

A 24-year-old tiler sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment for defiling a 15-year-old claims the victim forced him to have sex with her, Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported. The convict, Patrick Mawunyega, committed the crime after helping the victim with her homework. According to the agency, the convict appeared before an …

Google denounced and condemned software from an Italian company specializing in communications surveillance used to hack into smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan. Google engineers explain that the victims, users of Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) smartphones, received a link to install malicious applications, which then make it possible to spy …