Zimbabwe Police Arrest CEO of State Power Company Over Tender

Zimbabwe Police Arrest CEO of State Power Company Over Tender

Zimbabwean police arrested the head of the state power distributor over a tender involving an Indian company, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said. The authorities detained Joshua Chifamba, chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission & Distribution Co., on Wednesday night and he’ll appear in court on Thursday, Nyathi said by phone from the capital, Harare. He will face charges that “relate to a $35 million tender involving an Indian company called PME,” Nyathi said….

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Melania Trump walks through Ghana’s ‘Door of No Return’

Melania Trump walks through Ghana’s ‘Door of No Return’

Melania Trump walked out the infamous “Door of No Return” at a onetime slave-trade outpost Wednesday and gazed over the crashing ocean waves that carried millions of Africans to lives of servitude. She later called her visit “a solemn reminder of a time in our history that should never be forgotten.” “It’s very emotional,” she said. “The dungeons that I saw, it’s really something that people should see and experience,” she told reporters. The setting…

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Buratai reveals those sponsoring armed militia in Jos

Buratai reveals those sponsoring armed militia in Jos

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has revealed those sponsoring armed ethnic militia groups in Jos, the capital of Plateau state. Buratai said the armed ethnic militia groups in Plateau State were supported and sponsored by elites or elders of the state. Buratai disclosed this on Wednesday during the burial of three soldiers who were killed during the violence that rocked the state’s troubled Barkin Ladi Local Government Area at the Maxwell Khobe…

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19 Feared Killed In Fresh Plateau Attack

19 Feared Killed In Fresh Plateau Attack

Nineteen people are feared killed in Ariri Village, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State by suspected herdsmen. The herdsmen were said to have attacked the village on Wednesday night and shot the victims while they were asleep. Bullets scattered around the scene of the attack   According to residents, security operatives are yet to arrive at the scene of the incident and the corpses of the victims are still scattered across the compounds where…

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4th Oct Newspaper Headlines from Nigeria

4th Oct Newspaper Headlines from Nigeria

1. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expelled Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly and factional senatorial candidate in the 2019 general election. APC Delta state chapter led by Cyril Abeye Ogodo took the decision during an emergency meeting of the State Working Committee (SWC ) in Asaba on Wednesday. 2. An articulated vehicle loaded with fuel has gone up in flames, in Akure, the Ondo State capital….

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International Court of Justice rules against US

International Court of Justice rules against US

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered the US to ease sanctions it re-imposed on Iran after pulling out a nuclear deal last year. Siding with Tehran, it said exports of “humanitarian” goods, such as food and medicines, should be allowed. The US argued the court had no jurisdiction in the case as it concerned its national security. The rulings of the ICJ which is based in The Hague are binding but the court…

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Six-year-old girl makes history by climbing Mount Afadja

Six-year-old girl makes history by climbing Mount Afadja

Hiking to the top of the Afadja Mountain which seems highly impossible for some adults became an easy task for young Adabla Edudzi, a Kindergarten Two female pupil of the Wuxor D/A Basic School in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region. Six-year-old Adabla, stunned her teachers and mates when she managed to hit the peak of the tallest mountain in Ghana and received a thunderous applause from the onlookers. Adabla has arguably become…

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Old man like you’ – Singer Kcee roasted on social media for sagging his trousers

Old man like you’ – Singer Kcee roasted on social media for sagging his trousers

Despite being 39 year old and married, Kcee still loves to dress as if he is in his early twenties but he could stop now with these reactions. Kcee, the Limpopo’s crooner’s efforts to impress people on social media have always failed woefully. He has always been accused of dressing like a ‘traffic light’ displaying multi colours. On this occasion, Kcee wore a durag, sagged his irregular trousers and posed with it. His followers were…

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Fuel Laden Tanker explodes around Ojo Barracks, Lagos

Fuel Laden Tanker explodes around Ojo Barracks, Lagos

In the early hours of Tuesday, October 2nd, a fuel laden tanker fell at Barracks bus-stop due to dilapidated state of the Lagos-Badagry expressway. The fall caused the tanker to explode and according to Vanguard, an eyewitness reports that no fewer than 8 vehicles were burnt by the fire with some people reportedly trapped in them. No official report has been given on casualty figure or number of vehicles affected. Social media users have shared photos…

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