Police in Nigeria’s Bauchi State arrested a 20-year-old housewife for killing her co-wife by using a pestle to hit her on the head, leading to her death. The incident was reported by the suspect’s husband. He said his second wife armed with a pestle entered his first wife room and …
Read More »Kenya: civil society concerned about shortage of condoms due to taxes
Civil society groups in Kenya are complaining about a chronic shortage of free condoms across the country. The life-saving products are usually imported and distributed for free but due to high taxes suppliers are no longer providing Kenya with free condoms. The activists want the government to remove taxes on …
Read More »Nigeria: man dies after hanging himself in Bayelsa State
A man has died after hanging himself from the flyover near the NNPC gas station on the Sanni Abacha highway in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found by passers-by dangling on the rail of the flyover. While some residents believed that the deceased was …
Read More »Names of the most unfaithful men and women
Every day, marriages are made, unmade and according to a study of a French website, the first name of a person would determine his fidelity or his infidelity cause infidelity turns out to be one of the main causes of divorce. Gleeden, the website dedicated to extramarital dating, which has …
Read More »Europol announces dismantling of a cocaine “super-cartel”
Police have dismantled a “super-cartel” of drugs, which controlled about a third of cocaine trafficking in Europe, and arrested 49 suspects in various countries including six of importance in Dubai, announced Monday Europol. The European Police Office said in a statement that this international operation led to the seizure of …
Read More »South Africa: more than 20 drown after heavy rains
More than 20 people have drowned in rivers and dams across South Africa’s northern Limpopo province in less than two months amid persistent rains, the police have said. The police said they were attending to “numerous calls” of drowning cases in all the five districts of the province. “From the …
Read More »Nigeria: man arrested for sodomizing a five-year-old boy
Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old man suspected homosexual for raping a five-year-old boy to death. Upon the report, the DPO Ogijo division, CSP Enatufe Omoh, quickly detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. The suspect confessed being an homosexual and that while …
Read More »Nigeria: woman and young boy arrested for robbing traders
Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command announced the arrest of a woman and a 19-year-old boy, for robbing traders with toy guns. The suspects were arrested during an operation at Adesan, Mowe, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. It was discovered that they came to rob the shop …
Read More »“UK must defend its values in the world” – Rishi Sunak
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will say on Monday that the United Kingdom must defend more strongly its values of freedom and openness, in particular vis-à-vis China and Russia, in his first major foreign policy speech. “Our adversaries and our competitors have a long-term strategy. In the face of these …
Read More »Date of elections in DR Congo finally set
Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be held on 20 December next year, the electoral commission has announced. Currently, insecurity is plaguing the east of the country with numerous rebel groups creating instability. The AFP news agency reports that the head of the electoral commission acknowledged that …
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