AFRICA

A Nigerian lady has reportedly committed suicide after her 4-year-old marriage was annulled recently. Twitter user @somadina___ who shared the story online, said her aunt who is deceased, took rat poison over the weekend. Read the sad story below…    

The female student of Federal University of Technology Akure Ondo State, left with grievious injuries by policemen, has revealed that she was assaulted for refusing to have sex with the security operatives. The student identified as Sheba Ogbu, said the incident happened at about 9:30pm along Oyemekun Road in Akure on …

Zimbabwe’s teachers and doctors, who make up the bulk of the public service, on Monday rejected the government’s wage offer, with medical personnel threatening a strike if their demand to have their wages benchmarked in the U.S. dollar is not met. The government proposed a 60% pay increase for doctors, …

At least 101 houses and shops were razed following a raid by terror group Boko Haram in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, an official has said. Three villages were raided late Friday in Konduga local government area of the state. Yabawa Kolo, head of the government-owned disaster management agency, told …

A housewife identified as Auta Dogo Singe, as repeatedly killed her husband in Bagudo Local Government Area of Kebbi State so as to free herself from the marriage and rejoin her former lover. It was gathered that the housewife conspired with one Garba Hassan and Sahabi Garba at Sabon Gari …

Gunmen in the early hours of Sunday invaded the Nigerian Customs Service premises in Calabar with the intention of carting away seized food items meant for delivery to Internally Displaced Persons camp across the country. The hoodlums, who invaded the premises around 4:00 a.m shot indiscriminately while trying to break …

Gunmen on Monday abducted the Chief Medical Director of the Irrua Specialist Hospital, Edo State, Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin, after killing two policemen attached to him. The Medical Director was said to be travelling to Benin. This is coming on the heel of a similar abduction of two Assistant Directors of …

Following the recent security challenges in Enugu State, students in the state under the auspices of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have joined in the call for the immediate removal of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Suleiman Balarabe, for lack of capacity to secure the state. In a statement …

The Presidency on Monday said the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has “nothing to do with President Muhammadu Buhari since he arrived Yokohama, Japan, on Monday.” Buhari had departed Nigeria yesterday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of …

A University of Cape Town student has reportedly been missing since Saturday, the authorities have said. Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, was last seen at around 13:30 in the Claremont area, NGO Pink Ladies said in an alert posted on Facebook on Monday. Mrwetyana lives at Roscommmon House on Main Road in …