AFRICA

An Abuja-based businessman identified as Hussaini Aliyu Takuma has been murdered and dumped inside a well around his farm at Jeda village in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The Kuje Police Divisional Headquarters, FCT, had on Saturday, exhumed the body of Hussaini, which was taken …

  The Lagos State Police Command has charged three suspects to court for allegedly beating a sex worker, Hannah Saliu, to death and setting her corpse ablaze for keeping the Holy Quran in her room, reports Thecitypulsenews. According to our source, one of the suspects patronised Saliu and after having sex with her, …

Pope Francis has apologised to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan for postponing his July visits to the two countries indefinitely for health reasons. He had planned to visit the DR Congo cities of Kinshasa and Goma on 2 to 5 July before travelling to the South Sudanese …

The Nigerian government has issued new guidelines for the operations of social media multinationals in the country including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other platforms. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) late on Monday issued the new regulations for the interactive platforms in Nigeria. A statement signed by NITDA spokesperson, …

The Catholic Diocese of Ondo State has said that the victims of terrorists’ attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, in the Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State would be given a funeral mass on Friday. The church disclosed this in a pamphlet seen by SaharaReporters. According to …

The London-Lagos biker, Kunle Adeyanju, has been conferred the Are Aniyikaiye of Offa Land in his state of origin, Kwara State, Nigeria. Adeyanju announced the reception of the chieftaincy title conferred on him by the Olofa of Offa on his verified Twitter page on Monday. The member of Rotary Club …

Gunmen who abducted three pastors on their way to a crusade in Kogi State, Nigeria have demanded a ransom of N80 million for their release. The clerics were reportedly kidnapped on Friday along the Ochadamu-Okele-Ejule Road in the Ofu Local Government Area of the state while going to minister at …

Two security guards have been arrested in connection with a business robbery in which they allegedly used their service firearms to rob a petrol station in Mpumalanga. The security guards, aged 30 and 40, allegedly robbed an employee at Majuba King Petroleum in Bethal on Saturday. “According to our information, …

Numbers of Covid-19 cases are rising again in East Africa even as countries bank on vaccinations to prevent another round of restrictions. Over the past one month, Kenya’s positivity rate has risen from zero to more than five percent, the level which the World Health Organisation (WHO) often considers threatening. …

Mu’ammar Al-Qadhdh?f? died on October 20, 2011, and this is the untold truth about his death. What was the Trigger? In 2009, Colonel Gaddafi, then-President of the African Union, proposed to African countries that they transition to a new currency, the gold dinar, which would be independent of the US …