AFRICA

Amnesty International says it has documented an alarming escalation in attacks and abductions in northern Nigeria, with more than 1,100 deaths since the beginning of the year. The rights group says the authorities have left rural communities at the mercy of rampaging gunmen and describes the lack of protection as …

Looks like the guy has been eating from the poor boss’s honey pot. lt seems the guy has been having two job descriptions for all along, and when the salary was delayed, he decided to concentrate on one job description that would later break his boss’s heart. It goes to …

A  cargo plane transporting money for the UN’s World Food Programme has crashed near the South Sudanese capital, Juba, killing eight of the nine people on board, the authorities say. Four of the dead from Saturday morning’s crash were South Sudanese, two were from Tajikistan and the other was from …

A couple of suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys) reportedly clashed with some Policemen on Saturday morning, August 22, at Idiroko road in Ogun State. It was gathered that some Policemen had tried to stop the young men who were driving Benz at a checkpoint but the men ignored them and …

South Africa’s students in all grades resume classes on Monday after weeks of closure because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Final-year students had resumed classes earlier to prepare for examinations. President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the schools in July after they were briefly reopened following a public outcry on rising virus cases. Monday’s resumption …

Suspected herdsmen have chopped off the hand of a farmer in Ikoyi-Ile in Orire local government area of Oyo State.   The Secretary of Idera Agbe Farmers Association in the council, Chief Joseph Oyekola, who confirmed this to The Nation, said the herdsmen terrorizing the area have also raped two …

The wife of the Chief Imam of Ayere community in Ijumu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi State, Nigeria, Mrs. Yemisi Baderu, has reportedly been murdered. According to reports received from Kogi State, Nigeria, the woman was murdered with cutlass in the presence of her husband on Thursday night. The …

The police in Anambra State on Saturday arrested a 30-year-old woman, who allegedly threw her newly born baby inside a pit toilet at Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The suspect, Franca Udokwu, a native of Obuba Obofia Nkpor community in Idemili North LGA, was said to …

A video of a man crying by the side of a busy road after a woman turned down his public proposal has gone viral.   In the video, the man is seen going down on one knee to ask the woman to marry him. The woman didn’t seem pleased and …

Twenty prisoners were killed in Madagascar as the authorities attempted to stop a riot in a prison in the south of the island, the justice ministry said. The trouble began at the prison in Farafagana at around 12:00 local time (09:00 GMT) with inmates splitting into two groups and attacking …