AFRICA

It’s sunset at dawn for 20-year-old Toluwalase Kembi, a polytechnic student awaiting industrial training. A visit to her friend sadly led to her death allegedly by boyfriend who claimed he was paid to carry out the act. The 33-year-old suspect, Owolabi Yusuf, also known as alfa, is now cooling his …

15 cows were on Saturday evening, struck to death by lightning at Ikogosi in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti State.   It was gathered that the cattle were killed at the Ikogosi Warm Spring site, a popular  tourism and recreational centre where warm and cold streams meet along Ipole-Ekiti.   …

A 300 Level student of the University of Calabar, Umo Aniekpeno, was reportedly burnt to death by a generator explosion in Calabar, Cross River State capital.   It was gathered that the student of the Department of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Basics Medical Sciences, died after the generator exploded at her …

The Mpumalanga Division of the High Court on Monday sentenced a man to 20 years imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend. Abdul Samson Malambe, 36, pleaded guilty and was convicted of the murder of Zanele Jeanet Mnisi. “On 18 January 2017, Mnisi went to visit Malambe at his parental …

Governor of Kaduna in Northern Nigeria, Nasir El-rufai has signed the law on surgical castration for male rapists and bilateral salpingectomy for females convicted of child rape in the state. Included in the Kaduna State Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2020 is a death penalty or a life sentence for perpetrators. …

Three men were killed and two others left injured on Monday morning when a light motor vehicle crashed into a tree. The incident occurred on Letaba Road in Brackendowns, Alberton, said ER24’s Russel Meiring. “Paramedics arrived on the scene at 9.20am to find a light motor vehicle split in two. …

Armed bandits have freed 40 people they had abducted from a village in north-western Nigeria’s Zamfara state on Saturday, police have said. The gunmen freed the villagers following the intervention of security agencies and a separate group of bandits who were involved in peace talks with the state government, police …

The deaths of more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year were caused by toxins produced by cyanobacteria in water, but there were still many unanswered questions, wildlife officials have been quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. The deaths in the Okavango Delta sparked widespread alarm and left conservationists …

About 500 pupils have been put into quarantine after a coronavirus outbreak at a school in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. A total of 98 pupils tested positive at the secondary school in the town of Burgersdorp, and officials say they fear the virus may have spread more widely into …

A policeman and a private security guard have been arrested in Uganda, as police investigate the cause of the fire which gutted an iconic building at Makerere University in the capital, Kampala. Investigators are looking into whether there was a lapse in security at the building or if officers absconded …