AFRICA

Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church has once again kicked against the continued closure of Churches in Nigeria due to coronavirus pandemic. Days ago, the clergyman spoke against the closure of Churches while markets are allowed to operate after the Federal Government eased the lockdown period. In the video …

Twenty-three militias were killed in fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and militias in Ituri province, the army said Friday. After fierce battles with members of the Cooperative For the Development of Congo (CODECO) militia group Thursday, the army regained control of four villages …

A woman was on Thursday charged with murdering her boyfriend of two years in a squabble over who would wash utensils after supper. Susan Njeri Wachiuri, 25, is accused of stabbing Kelvin Njenga Ng’ang’a 11 times using a knife. Njenga had visited Ms Wachiuri two days before the Easter weekend …

What would have been mere enforcement of wearing of face mask in Anambra State on Monday turned into a tragedy as 22-year-old Cletus Chisom was stabbed to death by Mr. Ibuchi Nwoju, a security man. According to a witness, the security guard was monitoring the use of face mask at …

A 48-year-old pastor in Edo state has been arrested for defiling four minors aged between six and 11, three of them siblings who were placed in his care. The oldest sibling is nine years old, and the youngest six. The pastor who gave his name as Otobong Emerson of Believers’ …

The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, arrested a 22-year-old pregnant woman, Veronica Boniface, for stabbing her husband to death over an alleged phone call with his ”girlfriend.” Veronica stabbed the deceased, Mohammed Anyakwo Egwa on the chest. He was rushed to the hospital …

Pandemonium broke out at one of the isolation centres located at Kwanar Dawaki, in Kano state, when some COVID-19 patients held health workers hostage for four hours. The former chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Kano branch, Professor Aminu Mohammed confirmed the aggrieved patients took two medical doctors and one nurse into captivity. …

Men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Ogun State have been accused of killing a 15-year-old boy, Riliwan Bello, in Owode, Yewa South Local Government of the state. Bello, a student of Area Community High School was allegedly killed by a stray bullet fired by men of the NCS, …

A sex worker in the northern Nigerian has told the BBC how coronavirus has affected her livelihood. She lives in the main Muslim state of Kano, which is in the fourth week of a lockdown. No-one is allowed to leave their houses, except on Mondays and Thursdays between 10:00 and …

The Congolese army has announced that government solders have killed 23 members of the Codesco rebel group and taken back control of two villages, including one of the group’s important bases in Djugu town in the north-eastern Ituri province. Codesco has been active in the region for three years. Its …