AFRICA

Senegalese engineering students are throwing themselves at the West African state’s growing coronavirus problem with inventions such as automatic sanitiser dispensers and medical robots. Youngsters from a top engineering school in the capital Dakar have turned their technical skills toward easing pressure on the wards – and they are already …

Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has insisted that his country will proceed to use their indigenous COVID-19 cure to treat patients infected with the virus. WHO has consistently warned against Madagascar’s COVID-Organics on the basis that they have not been clinically tested and proven. But in Andry Rajoelina’s view, the position …

At least 23,000 people escaping violence in north-western Nigeria have fled to neighbouring Niger in recent weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. The refugees were “mainly desperate women and children”, who had been allowed to seek protection in Niger despite border closures as a result of coronavirus pandemic, …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana is collating information on Ghanaians and Legal Permanent Residents who are stranded abroad as a result of the closure of international borders in the containment of the Covid-19 Pandemic. To this end, eligible nationals who are prepared to pay for …

Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram has cried out for protection against Nigerian troops’ following intensified successful offensives against his fighters. In an audio obtained by Daily Nigerian, the Boko Haram leader who spoke in Kanuri sought for protection of Allah against the “devilish act” of Nigerian military which he said has …

A man allegedly battered his wife then had the courage to boast about it on Facebook while challenging the police to come and arrest him. The man, with the Facebook user name Afobaje Maiyegun, hinted that the incident had to do with him talking to a woman. Sharing photos of …

Violence in northwest Nigeria has forced about 23,000 refugees to flee to Niger since April and raised concerns about the deteriorating security situation, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. The numbers fleeing to neighbouring Niger have almost tripled from last year when the agency reported the first influx …

Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has hit back at critics of an untested herbal tonic that he is promoting as a treatment for coronavirus, despite it not having gone through clinical trials. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning against people using untested remedies for coronavirus. Africans deserved …

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 41-year-old man, Patrick Mbama, and 30-year-old, woman, Ogechi Chinonso Ekwebele, for stealing a one-month-old baby and selling him to a buyer in Lagos. The suspects were intercepted by police Officers from Anthony Police Division, on enforcement duty at Anthony Oke pin down …

Detectives have arrested a juvenile in connection with the gruesome murder Pamoja FM journalist, Mohammed Hassan Marjan, who was killed last week in Kibra on his way home from work. The arrest of the 14-year-old by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Monday comes after he was …