AFRICA

A notorious serial rapist, Malibongwe Ncokolo, has been sentenced to seven life terms and 300 years imprisonment by the Bisho High Court in Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was sentenced on Friday, November 6. The 44-year-old Ncokolo, whose arrest on June 7, 2017, signalled an end of reign of terror …

A 21-year-old bricklayer, Biodun Owolabi, has been arrested for killing his apprentice for money rituals. Mr Owolabi is alleged to have killed the 13-year-old secondary school boy, Quadri Olalekan, with the help of his accomplices, 20-year-old Festus Simon. The incident happened on Saturday, October 31, 2020, after they tricked the …

A North West man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping, raping and hanging his former girlfriend in 2018. The Madikwe Regional Court found Mpho Mkhibane Nkwe, 33, guilty of kidnapping, rape and the contravention of a protection order. The court heard that Nkwe kidnapped, assaulted and raped his former …

An abusive husband has been accused of smashing his wife’s car after she dumped him in South Africa. An eyewitness who alleged that she was riding with the man’s estranged wife, said he smashed her car and drove off. She further revealed that after they visited the police station, they …

A woman has opened up to the Anambra Judicial panel on Police brutality on how officers of the defunct Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS killed her husband and asked her to marry another one.   SARS killed my husband, told me to marry another – Woman narrates The woman identified as …

The Nigerian Senate on Thursday ordered its State House officials to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari from foreign trips for medical treatment in order to ensure the State House Clinic becomes functional this year. The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs gave the warning when the State House Permanent …

A very sad thing is said to have happened as a 6 years old boy has drowned after falling into a well in the  Yansango Kumbotso Local government Area of the state in Nigeria. According to reports, the young boy was playing with a few friends when the unfortunate incident …

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has been sworn in for a second term following his victory in last week’s disputed election. More than 12 countries have been represented at the ceremony, as well as delegates from the African Union and the Southern African Development Community. Mr Magufuli took the oath of …

The Police Administration has deployed One Hundred and Forty-seven Police Officers drawn from the Formed Police Unit (FPU) to the African Union Peacekeeping Mission (AMISOM) in Somalia on 2nd November, 2020, to assist the local police in maintaining peace and order. The Director, International Relations Department, Assistant Commissioner of Police, …

Ivory Coast’s ruling party Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) warned the political opposition, which boycotted the presidential election of October 31, against any “attempt to destabilise” the country. At least five people died over the weekend in election-related violence. The warning came in the wake of a …