AFRICA

A Nigerian woman who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome, Italian police said in a statement on Wednesday, March 8, 2023.   Joy Jeff, 48, was tried in absentia in 2010 and sentenced to 13 years in jail for criminal conspiracy, slavery, people …

Two cattle herders have pleaded guilty to abducting and raping a woman after being arraigned before an area court in Gwagwalada in the FCT on Tuesday, March 7.   The Prosecutor, Dabo Yakubu, told the court that the defendants, Nuru Tukur (21) and Yusufa Haruna (29), on February 25, abducted …

Two Nigerian nationals have been arrested at the Mumbai airport for trying to smuggle in cocaine worth nearly Rs 30 crore packed in capsules ingested by them, an official from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Acting on intelligence inputs, DRI officials intercepted two …

A 37-year-old woman, Blessing Edet, was on Tuesday docked in a Federal High Court, Abuja for allegedly defaming Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. Ms Edet, who was arraigned before Justice Ahmed Mohammed by the Nigerian police on a six-count charge, however pleaded not guilty. The News Agency of …

Veteran Nigerian actor, Arowosafe, popularly known as Baba Fadeyi Oloro, is dead. Mr Arowosafe, who played Fadeyi Oloro in a Yoruba TV series titled ‘Arelu’ in the 80s, had been ill for over three years before his shocking death. Fadeyi Oloro’s daughter, Fasunwon Bidemi oluwafunke, confirmed the news when PREMIUM …

AWestlake High School senior has received acceptance letters from over 50 colleges and over $1.3 million in scholarships. Daya Brown, who has been a member of the Harvard Diversity Project and was student council president during high school, said her goal was to ultimately not pay for college. She explained …

A Kenyan man accused of selling potato chips fried with transformer oil was sentenced to two years in prison or pay a fine of Ksh.200,000 (around $1,500). According to Citizen Digital, authorities found 11 liters of transformer oil in Elijah Mwangi Muthoga’s possession when he was arrested in December 2021. …

Nigeria’s oil production output may fall this month over a fresh pipeline explosion, according to findings by our correspondent. A fresh explosion was said to have rocked a major export pipeline in the Niger Delta, with about 12 deaths reported on Thursday at Rumuekpe community in the Emuoha Local Government …

When President Samia Suluhu Hassan came into office nearly two years ago, Tanzania was on a completely different trajectory. President Samia has since presided over a raft of reforms that have changed the direction the country was taking under her predecessor, Dr John Pombe Magufuli, who died in office on …

The UN children’s agency, Unicef, says the number of pregnant women and girls who are suffering from malnutrition has soared by a quarter in the last two years in countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. Unicef estimates that more than a billion women and adolescent girls across the world are …