AFRICA

    Nigerian law enforcement officials have commenced an investigation into the allegation against a housewife, who reportedly damaged the genitals of her husband. One Omolara Seriki, a resident of Ikirun had reported her husband, Raheem Seriki, to the command, accusing him of shirking his responsibilities as husband and father. …

    In a major milestone for the country, the continent and the global fight against the pandemic the first participants from across Africa will be vaccinated this week in a South African A trial as the world searches for a prevention against acquiring Covid-19. Called The South African Ox1Cov-19 Vaccine …

    19 infections have surpassed the 100,000 mark after 4,288 new cases were reported on Monday, June 22, 2020. The positive cases are now sitting at 101,590, while close to 2,000 people have lost their lives. Of the new 61 COVID-19 related deaths reported, 39 are from the Western …

      After a massive outcry over his non-attendance in court earlier this year, citing ill health, former president Jacob Zuma is expected to appear in person at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday for his corruption trial. The matter, well over a decade in the making, is on …

    The son of the Chief Imam of Isale Oja community in Agege, Abdulrahman Olayiwola, has been arrested by Lagos state police for allegedly stabbing his friend, identified simply as Pelumi, to death during an argument over a stolen phone. According to police sources, Pelumi had given Mr Olayiwola …

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    Three women have been killed by violent means in just weeks in KwaZulu-Natal, this while the country is reeling from a shocking surge in gender-based violence during the national Covid-19 lockdown. On Monday, police said they found the body of a woman, aged between 18 and 20, with …

    A Northern Cape police officer is in hospital under police guard after he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself during an argument in the early hours of Sunday. According to provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Mohale Ramatseba, it is alleged that at about 01:00, …

    Commuters were left stranded across Gauteng, roads were barricaded and a bus hijacked as the SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) embarked on a strike on Monday to protest against a R1bn government relief package for the industry. The council said in a letter “we were expecting at least …

    South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial climate, his foundation said on Sunday. De Klerk, who was the head of South Africa’s …