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Two Nigerians were arrested for concealing 167 capsules of cocaine in their stomach at the Mumbai airport in India, according to the India TV. The two passengers were arrested by police after arriving at the Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International airport from Lagos via Addis Ababa. They were taking to court …

The United States took a significant step on Tuesday towards a ban on the popular TikTok app via a White House-backed bill, amid growing Western distrust of the Chinese social network. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement that he “welcomed” a bill tabled the same day …

Uganda’s police on Wednesday briefly closed a busy expressway that connects the capital, Kampala, to the country’s main airport after a security scare, local, media reported. A bomb squad was deployed to conduct an investigation along the Entebbe expressway before it was cleared for public use, according to tweets by …

At least two people died and 16 others were injured in a train crash in the town of Qalioub, north of Cairo, on Tuesday, the Egyptian health ministry said. Initially, the ministry reported in a press release “one death and 16 injured”, six of whom have already been treated. It …

A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for pushing a 52-year-old woman to death in Isolo, in the Akure area of the state in Nigeria, according to reports. “The suspect, after taking her bath didn’t cover her hair so the deceased to her to cover it and it led to the …

A brother and sister born 126 days before their mother’s due date in Canada were named “the world’s most premature twins” by the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday, their first birthday. This is an atypical record, to say the least. The duration of a pregnancy is usually nine …

A 30-year-old farmer has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an eight-year-old girl at Sehwi Kwame Tawiakrom in the Western North Region of Ghana. “The suspect called the girl to accompany him to his farm and collect something for her mother,” reports said. When they …

A 22-year-old soldier has been killed at Taifa, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana, according to reports. “The victim was stabbed severally to death by unknown attackers as he was returning from his girlfriend’s house at Taifa,” according to reports. He was heading towards his …

“At the current rate, UN Women is setting gender equality 300 years from now, as it is moving further and further away,” denounced Antonio Guterres in a speech at the opening of two weeks of debates in New York of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and two …

The Ambassador of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Liberia, Josephine Nkrumah, has reported to authorities death threats made against her by a Facebook user, local media reported. In a letter to Liberia’s Justice Ministry, Ms Nkrumah said the user, identified as Carson, had posted on Facebook …