Crime Africa

The Federal Government through the Nigerian High Commission to the United Kingdom has hired lawyers to defend a former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, over allegations of organ harvesting, the Nation has learned. This was disclosed by Senate President Ahmad Lawan after a …

Video of Jackie Appiah’s mansion causes a stir Prince Osei, others fight Jackie’s critics Beverly Afaglo says Ghanaian actresses invest their earnings It seems actress Beverly Afaglo has had enough with Ghanaians who are fond of associating the achievements of her female colleagues with the assistance from ‘big men’ who …

A photo has been making rounds on social media of a man in full suit holding a slender glass with champagne speaking to a lawyer in a court room. It has provoked humour as well as lamentation for different reasons. The man in question is Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o, a …

Ana zargin dakarun Rasha da sace alkamar Ukraine da manoma suka yi wahalar nomawa a yankunan da ta mamaye da kuma wasu kayan amfanin gona irinsu iri, da taki da kayayyakin noma. BBC ta tattauna da manoma, da nazari kan hotunan taurarin dan adam da kuma bibiyar bayanai, domin tattaro …

At least two people were killed and several others injured when elements of the Murle and Anyuak communities sheltering at the Mahad displaced peoples’ camp in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, clashed on Sunday evening, officials said. Mayen Kur Kuer, the camp’s chairperson, told Radio Tamazuj that the fighting …

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) lost the move to regain freedom. Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court rejected Kanu’s application seeking to grant him bail. The IPOB leader sought the court’s permission to discharge the earlier order revoking his bail. Justice …

Local authorities in Abyei Administrative Area on Sunday said youth suspected to be from Warrap’s Twic County attacked Mading-Acueng village near Abyei town and killed 18 people including a six-year-old child, and wounded 11 other people over the weekend. Ajang Deng Miyen, the Abyei information minister, told Radio Tamazuj on …

Gunmen have kidnapped 22 farmers from their fields just outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja, local police said Friday, in the latest wave of mass abductions in the country. Heavily-armed criminals known locally as bandits frequently attack rural areas with poor security in the northwest and central regions, but mass kidnappings are …

Nigerian political couple arrested in London remanded in custody to reappear in court on July 7 Senator Ekweremadu and wife charged with offences under modern slavery legislation Organ harvest plot victim has been rescued and in safety A Nigerian senator, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu were on …

Another group of 21 teachers were picked from the Lakes State Legislative Assembly in Rumbek on Wednesday morning and detained at the SSPDF’s Panda Military Barracks in South Sudan, a teacher who survived the arrest said. The group of teachers had gone to the state government offices to follow up …