Africa

A former Kenyan police officer has been arrested after she turned up for a television interview in full police uniform, on charges of impersonating police officers. She was was arrested on Wednesday June 29. The suspect identified as Monica Wamaitha Gitau, is a Kenyan politician vying for Nairobi Women Representative seat on Usawa …

Police in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria have arrested a man for allegedly burning his 12-year-old househelp with hot iron for riding his children’s bicycle. The househelp had accused her male boss of burning and leaving her with injuries by for allegedly spoiling his kids’ bicycle. Local media reports have it …

He wants to be sure things are not messed up on his behalf while he is gone. An 87-year-old man from Busia, Kenya has bought a new coffin for his “future” burial ceremony. The man identified as Aloise Otieng’ Ng’ombe is said to have bought a coffin worth Ksh58,000 for his …

A student of St Charles Lwanga secondary school in Changamwe, Mombasa, Kenya has pleaded guilty to sneaking a tear gas canister into the school. Appearing before Mombasa Principal Magistrate Vincent Adet, the minor told the court that he wished to change his plea, days after he had denied the charges before a …

Popular Nigerian relationship expert, Blessing Okoro, has shown off her bare butt days after she went under the knife. Blessing recently had liposuction as well as her butt done. She had posted the process of the surgery on social media while she was with the surgeons. She has concluded the …

A 17-year-old who survived the Enyobeni tavern tragedy in South Africa, has said that she “fainted for three hours and when I woke up I could hear a man saying I must be dumped among the dead”. The teenager recalled how she collapsed while unsuccessfully trying to resuscitate her two …

A seven-year-old primary one pupil is currently in police net after he was caught for breaking into a house in the Olomi area of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He allegedly stole two phones and N4,000 (about $6). According to Nigerian Tribune, the boy also cooked rice, ate all the meat …

Probably she felt her husband is worth that unbelievably low amount so he hired a low-budget assassin to do the dirty job. This was not actually the initial amount. It was a upfront payment but even the total package for this dirty job which this woman was willing to part …

At least 17 people are reported to have been found dead at a nightclub in South Africa. Emergency services were called in the early hours of Sunday June 26,  to the Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery Park, on the edge of East London, Eastern Cape province, according to the Daily Dispatch news …

A police officer South Africa, has been nabbed after he was reported to have shot his wife dead. According to the relative, who asked not to be identified, the forty-four-year-old officer was with his wife, Thobeka Msomi, at their Inchanga township home when he allegedly opened fire, shooting her dead. …