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A 24-year-old Thai woman has been arrested for attempting to smuggle 43 packets of Canadian Loud, a synthetic variety of cannabis weighing 46.60 kilograms, into Nigeria via Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. She was arrested on February 20 during the inward clearance of passengers on a Qatar …

A 31-year-old man drowned inside a well while attempting to retrieve a phone in the Oja-Odan area of Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. A witness said, “the dceased attempted to enter the well to retrieve the phone which has=d accidentally fallen into the well.” The witness warned the victim …

Nigerian singer Ayra Starr had a very different life on social networks before she became an afrobeats star because she was an online troll, managing a page dedicated to American rapper Nicki Minaj. In Internet slang, a troll characterizes an individual seeking attention by creating negative feelings, or behavior aimed …

Among the 25 African countries surveyed by Surfshark, a Netherlands-based cybersecurity company, ten have a better quality of digital life. The Digital Quality of Life Index 2024 ranking shows the progress made by many countries over the period 2019-2024. Five criteria were taken into account: Internet affordability, quality of Internet …

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, volunteers are collecting weapons that may have been abandoned or distributed by the Congolese military when they withdrew from Bukavu. These volunteers include children. Since Monday February 17, dozens of volunteers have been criss-crossing the city of Bukavu to collect these abandoned weapons. For …

A 10-year-old boy has tragically drowned in Salt Lake at Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region, Ghana. According to Adom, the deceased went missing on Wednesday after returning from school. His body was discovered on Thursday, February 20, 2025. The Assemblyman for the Upper Nyanyano …

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died at age 84 in Mali, according to information. The cause of Cissé’s death was not announced. The Malian government said Cissé had just held a press conference to present two trophies as a …

A 14-year-old brazilian boy died after injecting a mixture of dead butterfly remains and water in Brazil, according to reports. The deceased was hospitalized in Vitoria de Conquista, experiencing severe pain, vomiting, and difficulty walking after injecting the concoction into his leg, according to reports. Authorities are investigating whether his …

French oil group Total Energies announced on Tuesday the sale of its assets in Burkina Faso, a few weeks after a similar operation in Mali, reports said. Total Energies announced on Tuesday, February 18, the sale of its assets in Burkina Faso to Coris Investment Group, a company headed by …

According to reports, Ivory Coast, through its future National Development Plan (NDP) covering the period 2026-2030, aims to achieve a poverty rate below 20% by 2030. Against a backdrop of strong demographic growth of 2.6% per year, the average per capita income is to be revised upwards. From 1,722 dollars …