AFRICA

The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano on Wednesday upheld the victory of the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The tribunal declared that the petition of the main opposition, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Abba Yusuf, challenging the victory of All Progressives Congress(APC) lacked merit. The …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Borno State has arrested a 38-year-old woman, Hauwa Adamu, who allegedly drops flaming charcoal in the private parts of her seven-year-old stepdaughter. The NSCDC Commandant, Mr Abdullahi Ibrahim, told a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Maiduguri that …

A pastor with a new generation church, the Royal Prince Prophetic Ministry, Chukwuemeka Eze, has been arrested by the Enugu State Police Command for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Miss Ogechukwu Ogbodo. Eze allegedly killed his girlfriend for refusing to buy a tricycle for him. Southern City News gathered that the …

The 42-year-old founder of Divine Mount Zion Gospel Ministry, Pastor Femi Olorunsoromidayo reportedly died while conducting the funeral service of one of his members. Pastor Femi, who was conducting the burial ceremony of 78-year-old Samuel Rotimi at Erusu in Akoko North West Local Government, was said to have gone against the wish of the …

Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party will transfer ownership of the palatial home in which the late President Robert Mugabe lived in the capital, Harare, to his family, the state-owned Herald newspaper has quoted a party official as saying. The “clarification” by Zanu-PF’s secretary for administration Obert Mpofu followed speculation that the …

Nigerian police say they have rescued nearly 500 people from a building in the northern city of Kaduna where they were detained and allegedly tortured. Those held were all men and boys – some were found chained up. Kaduna state’s police chief Ali Janga told the BBC the large house …

Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba’s comments on Sandton Gautrain station water cuts display “extreme desperation”, Gauteng Public Transport and Road Infrastructure MEC Jacob Mamabolo said. Mamabolo said Mashaba was trying to drag the Gauteng provincial government (GPG) and Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) into a rates and taxes dispute between the City …

As a first-time offender, he was considered to have a “positive support system” and was placed on parole in line with Section 73 of the Correctional Services Act. This law determines the minimum periods of sentence that must be served before consideration may be given to possible placement. “Offenders placed …

Suspected kidnappers have opened fire on an Abuja- bound passenger bus around Kotin-Karfe, Kogi State, killing an unspecified number of the occupants while others escaped with bullet wounds. The suspected kidnappers, on Tuesday, laid seige on Abuja bound vehicles, killing all the occupants of the Sharon bus, said to be …

Suspected gunmen believed to be bandit have laid ambushed and attacked military personnel on patrol in Gudu Local Government Area of Sokoto State. A source in the local government area told said that the suspected gunmen stormed Balle town, the local government headquarters on Tuesday and attacked soldiers on routine …