A Magistrate’s Court in Makurdi, Benue State, has remanded a 40-year-old housewife and her son in custody for beating her brother-in-law to death in Nigeria, according to reports. “The woman and her son beat up her in-law living with her,” according to information. The woman claimed that her in-law stole …
Read More »Equatorial Guinea appoints Manuela Roka Botey as first woman PM
Equatorial Guinea has appointed Manuela Roka Botey as prime minister, becoming the first woman in the country to hold the position. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled the country since 1979, made the announcement on Tuesday in a decree read on state television. The country’s vice-president, Teodoro Nguema …
Read More »Kenyan authorities ban night and dawn classes
Kenya’s Education Minister Ezekiel Machogu has banned early morning and late evening studies in schools, saying “we don’t want to subject the kids to strain – kids should sleep for nine hours”. Mr Machogu directed that classes in both private and public primary schools be held between 08:00 and 15:45 …
Read More »49 boys drown in boat accident in Pakistan
Forty-nine students between seven and fourteen years died when their overloaded boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, reports said. “The water of the dam was freezing due to cold weather that impeded the rescue mission” said Khateer Ahmad, a senior official with Rescue 1122. “The bodies of a teacher and one …
Read More »A military officer brutalized a civilian in Ghana
A military officer of 48 Engineering Regiment, is in the grips of Kasoa Divisional Police Command for allegedly brutalizing a civilian in Ghana, reports said. “The victim was accused of demolishing the suspect father’s building construction,” information said. The suspect mobilized some persons to attack the victim in his home. …
Read More »A Sex worker found dead in hotel room
A sex worker was found dead when cleaners swept her room in a hotel in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, according to reports. The victim was suspected to be murdered or had committed suicide. The positioning of the body suggested that she was strangled. A colleague of the deceased said she …
Read More »‘If they really care about Ukrainian people, they should…’ China accuses US
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning on Monday accused the United States of “triggering the crisis in Ukraine” and “being the main factor fueling it” by supplying heavy weapons in Kyiv, Bloomberg reported. On January 24, the American administration had accused Chinese public companies of assisting Russia militarily and economically, …
Read More »Soldiers shoot a man to death in Ghana
A group of soldiers have shot dead a 25-year-old man, assaulted two others at Agbozo Junction near Hobor in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Ghana, according to reports. The soldiers were in the community protecting a vast land belonging to a company. “Some residents were grading …
Read More »US sets end date for covid-19 health emergency
US President Joe Biden announced to Congress on Monday that he would end the state of health emergency linked to Covid-19 in the United States, the Associated Press reported The virus, which has killed more than a million people in America, will therefore settle into normality from May 11. Read …
Read More »Ex-Brazilian president ask to stay in US for six more months
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under investigation for his role in the violent attack on the headquarters of national institutions in Brasilia on January 8, has applied for a six-month visa to stay in the States States, his lawyer said Monday. The far-right former president had left Brazil …
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