AFRICA

The Kwara state police command has arrested a man named Issa Naigheti on charges that he kidnapped his father and demanded N2.5m in exchange. Ajayi Okasanmi, a spokesman for the command, said that officers from the Kwara police command’s anti-kidnapping team caught the suspect in the Kambi neighborhood of Ilorin. …

An angry tenant took matters into his own hands after his landlord increased his rent by 200 per cent. According to a trending video online, after the landlord presented his new rent fee to the tenant, he refused to consider his plea to reconsider the astronomical amount he had added …

The interesting and unique people of the Himba tribe inspired the character ‘Binti’ in Nnedi Okorafor’s novella trilogy ‘Binti’. Meet The African Tribe Where Lungula Is Offered As A Gift To Guests (ZUMI Kenya) Down in the Kunene and Omusati regions of Northern Namibia, are the semi-nomadic people of Ovahimba …

West African leaders will not go through with a threat to sanction Mali for jailing 46 Ivorian soldiers, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Wednesday, preferring to give time for Togo’s mediation in the diplomatic spat to bear fruit. Malian authorities detained the Ivorian troops after …

Julius Kipkurui, a Kenyan man who was 42 years old, died because he was accused of having an affair with Chero, the wife of his neighbor. In a statement released on Thursday, January 5, 2023, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said that the woman’s husband beat her to death. …

More fake preachers are being shown to be fake. One person in Kogi state hasn’t been seen since it was found out that he buried a runaway girl in the church’s alter. Since the revelations, Pastor Segun, who led the church in Ozuri, Adavi LGA, Kogi State, Nigeria, has not …

In the Zone seven neighborhood of Dutse Alhaji in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, a mother admitted that she destroyed her daughter’s womb and that she will never be able to have children again. At a family prayer led by her first daughter, Mrs. Nkemka Oby, the woman said that she …

Muhammad Adulganiyu and Ma’arufat Ibrahim’s three-month-old marriage was dissolved by a Magaji-Gari, Kaduna court. The husband, Muhammad Adulganiyu, reportedly claimed that his wife had abandoned their marital residence without explanation. “I tried my best to provide for her, but she and her mother do not appreciate my efforts, and we’ve …

The Makaza family were shocked to find their grandmother’s coffin dug out and deposit in an open place in the Ofzi cemetery. The family said they buried their late grandmother, who was 98, two weeks ago after her death from diabetes and asthma. It has been reported that residents have …

Two car bombs killed several people and flattened houses in central Somalia’s Hiraan region on Wednesday, security officials and witnesses said. “We were awoken this morning by two huge explosions,” Ahmed Nur, a local elder, told Reuters. “We have seen many houses leveled to the ground. At least 10 people …