Said Muhammad Al-Masiri, an Imam in Kaduna has confirmed that a Kaduna based civil servant has defiled his two daughters. “He had sex with them front and back, their vaginas and anus are damaged. I gave their mother N10,000 and she took the girls to the hospital. The doctor examined …

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspected robbers who hid in their herbalist’s house after an operation. The suspected robbers were arrested on Tuesday after allegedly unleashing terror on residents on Akorede Estate, Olomoore, behind Crescent University, Abeokuta, on January 21, 2020. The state Police Public …

Over 800 students of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) have been deferred for failing to register with the school during the 2019/2020 academic year. During a press conference on Monday, the University’s Registrar, Moses Maclean Abnory, noted that students were given ample time to register from September 2019 to January …

A suspected ɤap!st has been beaten to pulp by a group of Polytechnic students. They allegedly caught the suspected ɤap!st in the act of forcibly sleeping with one of the students on campus. They meted on him serious beating after catching him ɤape a student of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic. …

Pupils and teachers of the Salebuga Junior High School in the Upper East Region have to walk 1 or 2 kilometres to have access to potable water and use the toilet on a daily basis. Speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show on Class91.3FM on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, a teacher …

The Head of the Virology Department of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Professor William Kwabena Ampofo, says seven out of the 21 cases tested for coronavirus showed symptoms as outlined by the Ghana Health Service despite all proving negative. He, therefore, called for vigilance and heightened effort as the …

Two(2) students of Nyankumasi Ahenkro Senior High School (SHS) have died out of Meningitis out of seven reported cases in the Assin South District of the Central Region, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. Health authorities disclosed that cases of Meningitis were reported in three communities within Assin South involving a farmer, some traders and …

Corpses of eight farmers from Uwheru in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State reportedly killed by hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen last Friday, have been exhumed, on Monday, by a search team made up of the police and representatives of the community for investigation. This is just as …

When Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, a 21-year-old Cameroonian student living in the Chinese city of Jingzhou, contracted the coronavirus he had no intention of leaving China, even if that were possible. “No matter what happens I don’t want to take the sickness back to Africa,” he said from his university …

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the core function of every university is to solve problems and advance the frontiers of knowledge. They do not just award degrees, but they carry out research regularly to suggest solutions to the problems of the people. Right now as I write, the …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the allegations by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd), Monguno in a circular from his Office on Monday accused Chief of Staff (CoS) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari of hijacking the coordination of security leadership. He accused …

Gunmen suspected to be pirates have attacked an oil barge along the waterways of Lutegbene, Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa State It was gathered that the gunmen, who launched the vicious attack killed four soldiers escorting the barge and two civilians. Others in the ill-fated vessel were said to have …

Fear of Boko Haram attack has made women and children flee their village and take to lodging in the open in Maiduguri. People from over 300 households in Kayamla, in the Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State, said they had to flee into Maiduguri when the villages around them …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has started investigations into the case of a teacher assaulting a nine-year-old pupil who criticised the taste of her ‘sobolo’ drink. Jonathan Korsinah, the Nkwanata South Education Director, said it was an unfortunate development and they will get to the bottom of the …

At least 20 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in a stampede in south-eastern Niger, reports say. Refugees from neighbouring Nigeria were queuing for food and money in the town of Diffa when the incident took place, according to local sources. Ten other people were injured. …

It has emerged that the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is indebted to mission hospitals across the country to the tune of GH¢87 million. A news item published in the Catholic Standard, the official newspaper of the Catholic Church in Ghana, indicates that Bishop of Koforidua, Most Rev. Joseph Afrifah-Agyekum, …

First-year Home Economics students of the Ningo Senior High Technical School at Ningo in the Greater Accra Region have to sit on the floor for classes due to lack of desks. The students, who number over 40, sit on the bare floor for lessons as the classroom has less than …

At least 22 people have been killed in an attack on a village in north-west Cameroon, the UN says. Over half those killed in Ntumbo were children, and local media report that several victims were burned alive. No-one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident, but an opposition party blamed the …

Chief Executives of two food import companies are being investigated by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for importing four 40-footer containers of salmonella infested gizzard into the country. Veterinary officials said they were able to impound one of the containers but three others which can feed millions of people have …

Abshir Gaarane Ahmed was a lead singer in a government band in Benadir, the region that covers the capital Mogadishu in Somalia. The public knew him as the man who belted out patriotic songs about his country. His trimmed beard and smooth voice suited a youthful artiste. Then on January …

Nigeria has over the past 18 years recovered $4.6 billion (1.4trn) allegedly looted from the nation’s treasury and stashed abroad by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha. Data on the recoveries collated by Daily Trust indicates that the funds were repatriated mainly from four countries between 2002 and …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Senegal, where he will hold talks with President Macky Sall focused on strengthening security ties and promoting deeper economic cooperation. The U.S. officially recognized Senegal as an independent state in 1960, and the two countries have forged a close relationship over the past …

Efforts to retrieve the body of a man who drowned after a boat accident along the Ganaola crossing channel in Mikindani continued Saturday 24 hours after it capsized. Samuel Tsui was among nine other passengers aboard the ill-fated boat when the incident happened. Family, friends and relatives have camped along …

Nurses in the Ashanti region have given the police a two-week ultimatum to find the killers of Ruth Eshun Arhin, a community health nurse who was murdered on February 3. The Community Health Nurses Association and (CHNAG) Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) want answers regarding the assailants or they will withdraw their …

A mentally-disabled man and woman were spotted somewhere in Edo state in Nigeria celebrating Valentine’s Day. In the photos posted on Facebook, the couple are seen kissing in public with the man holding her by the waist. More photos below: A mentally-disabled man and woman were spotted somewhere in Edo …

Two boys identified as Inusa and Ibrahim have contested in an election to win a girl, Khadijah, they both fell in love with in a Bauchi community. Reports say that Khadijah had requested for the election which was conducted by elders of Giade town in Bauchi State. Inusa reportedly scored …

More than 6,000 bodies from the victims of a protracted civil war have been discovered in Burundi. The bodies were discovered in six mass graves in Karusi Province – the largest finding since the government launched a nationwide excavation in January. Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, chairman of the country’s truth and …

Untreated sewage from a non-functioning sewer treatment plant that serves the Volta barracks of the 66 Artillery Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces, is flowing into a river in the Ho Dome community. The treatment plant, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) was told, had stopped working since 2016, causing overflowing …

A policewoman, who allegedly clutched the private parts of a mechanic, Ikwunado Chima, while he was being tortured in detention has been arrested and detained by the Rivers State Police Command. The late Chima met his untimely death in police custody on December 23, 2019, four days after he was …

No fewer than three suspected armed robbers were shot dead while two others were arrested alive by Anambra state police Puff-Adder operatives in conjunction with patrol team attached to Fegge Division at Federal Housing Estates Fegge, Onitsha. The armed robbers allegedly attacked one Nmandi of Chisco Park Upper Iweka in …