AFRICA

In the wake of xenophobic attacks happening in South Africa, some angry Nigerians have burnt down an MTN office in Lagos to stop South Africans from bullying and murdering Nigerians in broad daylight in South Africa. A Twitter user @milksha64693019 posted the photos on Twitter and wrote; “Angry Nigerians burn …

South Africa is treating their people’s incessant killings of Africans the way the President Buhari government treats the killings of farmers by killer herdsmen. They look for excuses to make for them. This morning I was watching one South African television and they were saying its poverty, lack of employment …

A scene was witnessed on Saturday, August 31 at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Benin City – Nigeria, as a jilted lady stormed the wedding venue of her ex-lover she reportedly dated for seven years. The angry lady, who learnt of the wedding ceremony of the groom identified as …

Protesters in Turffontein, Johannesburg, looted shops as they demonstrated in the area on Monday morning. The protesters targeted shops they believed to be owned by foreign nationals. Police were on the scene but residents in the area outnumbered them. The protesters burnt tyres in the streets and forced passengers out …

The Nigerian Army authorities have arrested one officer and nine soldiers in connection with the killing of five officers of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), on August 6, in Taraba State Daily Sun, can authoritatively report. This is just as our correspondent gathered that the arrested officers risk death …

Three people were killed while some passengers were whisked away into the bush by suspected kidnappers on the Lokoja-Abuja express road on Sunday evening. It was reported that the suspected kidnappers waylaid a 14-seater bus fully loaded with passengers and was heading to Abuja before the unfortunate incident. It was …

The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Agboola Ajayi has been accused of altering his academic records. According to a series of posts on Twitter as well as some purported documents on social media, it was alleged that while serving as Chairman of Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, …

The annual Oro cultural festival held in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has turned bloody, as suspected members of Aiye and Eiye cult gangs were embroiled in a clash. Five members of the secret cult groups died in the fight, while several others sustained bullet and machete wounds. The gangs were said …

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested an armed robbery suspect, Wasiu Kamarudeen, 19, of No. 8, Olaniyi St., Iyalode, Ilogbo in Badagry and recovered one locally-made short gun with one live-cartridge from him. This is contained in a press statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer ( PRO), …

Uganda’s health ministry has confirmed a new Ebola case in the western town of Kasese. A girl of nine who had travelled from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo was found to have a fever during screening for Ebola at the Mpondwe border crossing. A blood sample that was sent …