AFRICA

The officer’s private vehicle was engulfed by flames following the head-on collision. Northern Cape police are investigating a case of culpable homicide, after a bus transporting African National Congress (ANC) supporters from the party’s birthday celebration in Kimberley, was involved in a collision which left one person dead. The ruling party’s …

OR Tambo – South Africa’s biggest airport – has been plunged into darkness on Sunday morning, after an Eskom sub-station caught fire in Kempton Park. Ahead of a make-or-break week for Eskom, the power utility has been rocked onto the back-foot already. A major sub-station fire at Kempton Park has …

The Lagos state police command have arrested one Chukwujekwu Eziigbo, a 15 year old boy for stealing female under wears from clothesline in Olufe area in Ojo local government area. A statement from Bala Elkana, the spokesperson of the state police command, says Chukwujekwu confessed that for one year now, …

A form 3 girl of Malindi secondary school in Zomba by the name Victoria Tebulo has committed suicide over relationship break up. Reports reaching this publication shows that the boyfriend to Victoria wanted to end the relationship but the girl refused to break up. “She decided to go and hang …

Dozens of African LGBT+ refugees in northwestern Kenya’s sprawling Kakuma refugee camp pleaded on Thursday with the United Nations to relocate them to a safer place, saying they had suffered violent attacks. More than 40 LGBT+ refugees from countries including Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo said they …

Commercial banks borrowed a total of N19.64tn from the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2019, an increase of 73 per cent from the N11.36tn borrowed in 2018. This has raised concerns among analysts following the rising liquidity problems in the financial services sector. This happened barely one month after the …

A woman has been arrested for pouring hot water on her niece who lives with her in Ajaokuta township in Kogi state. A facebook user, Enikan Olusanya, shared pictures of the little niece, showing the scalds she sustained from the hot water burn on her arm and leg. Sharing the …

A Popular Warri Based Prophetess Success Onwaeze who is the General Overseer of Salvation Solution Centre of All Nations has died after failing to survived food poisoning. It was gathered that the Prophetess whose Ministry was booming in Warri Delta State was poisoned by the Pastors in her Ministry in …

At least 25 soldiers have been killed in a suspected jihadist attack on a military camp along the western border with Mali, Niger’s army says. More than 60 militants were also killed when the army – supported by partners – responded with air power, it says. Last month, 71 soldiers …

An Ebonyi State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abakaliki, on Thursday, remanded in a correctional centre a 37-year-old man, Chibueze Iduma, for allegedly killing his father with his walking stick. It was learnt that the suspect and his father, Mr Emmanuel Iduma, had an altercation over a piece of cooked yam …