AFRICA

The funeral of the beloved South African artist Rikhado Makhado, popularly known as Riky Rick, will take place at a private ceremony in Johannesburg on Tuesday March 1. The rapper’s family announced that they’ve planned an intimate gathering for his send-off, which will be live streamed. A memorial service for …

Parliament bosses will meet finance minister Enoch Godongwana to discuss a special allocation for the institution. While no decision has been taken about the future of parliament — some buildings of which were razed by an inferno last month — National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said the meeting will discuss …

A man was handed a 10-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of holding a six-week-old baby against the dry ice in his refrigerator. Two years of the sentence was suspended for five years by the Pretoria High Court. According to lobby group AfriForum, Judge Mokhine Mosopa handed down …

Nigerian kidnapping kingpin Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, widely known as “Evans”, has been sentenced to life in prison. A judge in Lagos also sentenced two co-defendants to life for abducting businessman Donatus Dunu in 2017. The CEO of a pharmaceuticals firm was held for nearly three months before managing to escape and …

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 into law. The signing ceremony took place inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja at about 12:30 pm on Friday. Africa’s most populous nation votes in keenly awaited presidential polls in 2023 and the amended law will allow …

An 18-year-old Kenyan girl has been jailed five years for starting a school dormitory fire that killed ten of her schoolmates in Kenya. The girl committed the offence when she was 14 years old in 2017 while in her first year at Moi Girls Secondary School in the Kenyan capital, …

The body of a newborn baby has been found dumped in broad daylight in a busy street of Cape Town’s city centre. Police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg confirmed that the body was found on Wednesday in Plein Street near Parliament. “A concealment of birth case was registered for investigation. The investigation …

The government of Nigeria says it will evacuate its citizens who wish to leave Ukraine as soon as airports are re-opened in the country. In a statement, Nigeria’s foreign ministry says the West African country “has received with surprise” the reports of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A spokeswoman for the …

Tributes are being sent in for popular South African rapper Riky Rick, who died on Wednesday. His family in a statement confirmed his death “with profound sadness” and asked for privacy and prayers. The death of the rapper, who real name is Rikhado Makhado, came after he had posted a …

South African couple, Portia and Bellium Tjale have put their late son’s funeral event on hold after they discovered that his manhood is missing. Reports say the family claimed that their son’s body was mutilated and violated at the funeral parlour. To this end, they refused to bury their disfigured son and have also …