AFRICA

The Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Gboko, the Most Reverend William Avenya, has suspended a priest, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, from public ministry for getting involved in partisan politics. The priest is a Benue State governorship contender on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. His suspension was contained …

East Africa remains a haven for fugitives accused of committing the Genocide Against the Tutsi almost 28 years after the massacres, with the region hosting 785 fugitives of the 1,147 wanted criminals. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda currently host the biggest number of wanted fugitives, 408 and …

The first batch of asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from the UK under a controversial new deal will likely arrive in the East African nation “in the next few weeks”, officials in Kigali said Thursday. Since being announced last month, the agreement enabling Britain to send migrants and asylum seekers …

Danish citizen, Peter Nielsen, who was the husband of late Nigerian singer, Zainab Joy Nielsen, better known as Alizee, has been sentenced to death by hanging for his involvement in her 2018 murder. A Lagos High Court presided over by Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile, on Friday, May 20, 2022, found him …

A boat mishap off the Tunisian coast has claimed four lives with 10 other migrants missing. According to the coastguard of the North African country, the illegal migrants were attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, when the incident occured. The coastguard managed to rescue 44 people from the …

Johanna Mazibuko, the South African believed to be the “world’s oldest woman”, celebrated her 128th birthday last week. Photos that were shared on social media showed the centenarian celebrating the huge milestone with loved ones. According to Metro, identity papers in Mazibuko’s possession show that she was born in 1894. …

Nigeria’s embattled Accountant-General has been suspended indefinitely amid a corruption allegation leveled against him by the country’s anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ahmed Idris’s suspension according to government was to allow for proper investigation of the claims. He was arrested after being linked to fraud, money …

The authorities at the National Hospital in Abuja, where the body of late singer Osinachi Nwachukwu is kept, have dismissed claims that she sings in the morgue at night. According to the health facility, those claims are a figment of people’s imagination and cannot be proven medically. Speaking to the media …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh. Etteh is being grilled by EFCC’s special duties unit for her alleged involvement in a solar power electrification scam in Akwa Ibom State worth N240 million. The former speaker was said …

Some students in Edo state are in tears after their headteacher absconded with their WAEC fees and put the school up for sale on exams day. A video making rounds show the students gathered at the entrance of the school gate standing in shock as they stared at a card …