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15 shops were razed following a fire outbreak at the Isuanuocha community in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. “The shop owners had gone home when a security man on duty noticed the brazen fire from one of the shops and started alerting the people,” according to …

A 10-year-old in Mexico shot and killed another 11-year-old because he beat him at video games, several Mexican media reported Wednesday. The attacker shot the victim with a pistol that he picked up at the family home in a miserable area of the state of Veracruz (southeast). The two children …

Devanshi Sanghvi, heiress of the jewelry business Sanghvi and Sons in the Indian city of Surat (Gujarat, west) has decided to give up her fortune to become a nun in a strict religious order of the Jain faith. Renouncing a fortune of millions of dollars in diamonds, the eight-year-old Indian …

Police have arrested a 21-year-old man who allegedly used a cutlass to steal a teenager’s phone at the Okerube bus stop in the Ikotun area of Lagos State, Nigeria. “I was standing with my cutlass at Okerube Bus Stop when the boy was passing by. I requested that he give …

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has warned against campaigns supporting rights of homosexuals in the country. The president described homosexuality as “nonsense” during remarks made on Wednesday at a graduation ceremony at the National Defence College. Mr Museveni said he was glad to have attended a recent meeting in the …

The general elections will be held on time despite the tense security situation in the country in Nigeria as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec), Mahmood Yakubu, said on Wednesday 18 January 2023. While there are rumors that insecurity in some parts of the country could prevent …

The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has declared seven days of mourning following the death of Vice-President Badara Alieu Joof at the age of 66. Mr Joof died in India after a short illness. He was thought to have been receiving treatment there, but the government has not confirmed this. Once …

The Federal Road Safety Corps has confirmed the death of four persons in a fatal motor accident which occurred at Opa Community in Akure South Local Government Area in Nigeria. “The accident involved a Silver Color Toyota Corolla and a Green Nissan Almera heading to Ondo city from Akure,” said …

A 75-year-old Jehovah’s Witness Evangelist is nowhere to be found after embarking on house-to-house evangelism at Kormantse-Kokodo near Mankessim in the Central Region, Ghana. The aged evangelist was always said to be active in the Church’s Evangelism ministry though she cannot speak well. “She left home to join colleague Jehovah’s …

A Ugandan pastor accused of raping a Latvian tourist after he allegedly invited her to his church has been arraigned in a Kampala court and remanded to Luzira prison, Dailymonitor reported. Pastor Joseph Collins Twahirwa appeared in a court in Kampala to answer rape charges brought against him following his …