Bellarmine Mugabe, the youngest son of former President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, has pleaded guilty to firearms and immigration offenses in South Africa. Bellarmine Mugabe, who is 28 years old, pleaded guilty to his crimes after being arrested Bellarmine Mugabe firearms case South Africa early this year, following a shooting at his home in Johannesburg. […]
Pope Leo XIV has appealed to the youth of Cameroon to reject corruption and actively participate in the development of their nation. This appeal was made during a Mass celebrated in the nation’s capital city of Yaoundé, in the course of his tour through various African countries. Pope Leo's first stop in Cameroon was to […]
At least, nine people have been reportedly killed in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital following attack on a farm at Ajilari community in Mere Local Government Area. DAILY POST gathered that those killed were working on a farm when Boko Haram stormed the area, killing nine and abducting several others. Residents around the area of […]
Foodstuffs that were donated by well-wishers to the victims of Tropical Cyclone Idai are said to be rotting in warehouses in Chimanimani East before distribution to beneficiaries. According to The Herald, some food items have either decayed or expired while locked up at Nyahode District Union Warehouse at Machongwe Business Centre. The publication’s source is […]
At least 10 people have been reported dead in a road accident that occurred Wednesday night breaking Thursday September 19, 2019 at Ngwei, a locality between Edea and Pouma in Cameroon’s Littoral region. The accident involving a Guaranti inter-transport bus heading to Yaounde and a semi remorque occurred when both engines entered into a violent […]
At least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia. The fire is believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning, when Koranic school students were sleeping in a building near their mosque. Police have […]
The second batch of Nigerians have departed the O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, for the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. About 319 persons were evacuated by Air Peace at about 2:58p.m. An official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kimiebi Ebenfa, confirmed this to The PUNCH via a WhatsApp message on Wednesday. Ebenfa said, […]
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt were named among the world’s most dangerous places to live and work in, for expatriates. The latest Expat Insider Survey, done by InterNations, polled 20,259 expats representing 182 nationalities and living in 187 countries or territories, covering topics such as quality of life, cost of living, personal finance, safety […]
The police in Meghalaya, India, has arrested six Nigerians in East Jaiñtia Hills on Saturday, bringing the total number of foreign nationals arrested to nine within a span of two days.The Nigerians are Thomson Nwafama, 29, Chijioke Obiacha, 28, Desmond Uzochkwu, 25, Okoliegbe Henry Onyedika, 33, Okeke Justin, 32, and Chukwunyere Christian, 30. East Jaiñtia […]
The government has reportedly told the family of the late former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe to pay for $2.5 million for catering services provided by Nyaradzo Group for Mugabe’s funeral. Zim Morning Post reports that the government asserts that the family of the former ZANU PF boss contracted Nyaradzo without government approval. An unnamed […]
Tunisian voters appear to have up-ended their nation’s politics in Sunday’s presidential election, rejecting established leaders for two outsiders with 39% of votes counted. Kais Saied, a conservative law professor, and Nabil Karoui, a media magnate held in detention since last month, have an apparently solid lead over a moderate Islamist candidate and seem set […]
On Sunday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed asked ethnic groups pushing to form breakaway regions to be patient and join him in building “a great Ethiopia”. Abiy made the plea during a visit to leaders of the Kafficho ethnic group, that are seeking to create a new federal state heightening further destabilization in Ethiopia’s diverse […]
The Prime Minister Head of government Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute has held consultative talks with the speaker of the National Assembly and the President of the Economic and Social Council this morning, ahead of the major National dialogue convened by the Head of State. Early this morning, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute met with […]
Indian government will proceed with its plans to erect a bust of Indian nationalist Mahatma Ghandi in Blantyre but changed plans from having it at an open site to put it inside Mahatma Ghandi International Convention Centre after a public backlash. Two individuals—Pemphero Mphande and Mkotama Katenga-Kaunda—obtained a court order against the contractor, Plem Construction […]
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has paid glowing tribute to the late President of Zimbabwe on behalf of government and people of Ghana. At the funeral of Robert Mugabe Saturday, in the capital Harare, he described the late leader as a “formidable warrior.” “Ghanaians, especially those familiar with Africa’s epic struggle for freedom, justice and […]
The Standard has exclusively revealed that ED threatened the Mugabe family to get the family to agree to bury Mugabe at the heroes acre. The publication says it is in possession of recordings that exposes the government threatening Grace that she will lose her Harare Mansion if they antagonised the government over Mugabe ‘s final […]
The government has started the process of constructing the mausoleum where former President Mugabe’s remains will be interred it has emerged. This was revealed by Mr Nick Mangwana who spoke to journalists at the national stadium yesterday when he said designing the shrine for the burial had begun. Mangwana said: I don’t know when the […]
The wife of Tunisia’s late president, Beji Caid Essebsi died on Sunday, as Tunisians were voting to elect his successor less than two months after his death. “My mother Chadlia, widow of Béji Caïd Essebsi, is dead, God bless her,” their son Hafedh Caïd Essebsi said on Facebook. Listwand recalls that Mrs Essebsi, 83, in […]
Thirty-six people have been declared missing when a cargo and passenger ship sank on the Congo River in the Kinshasa region, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, police announced on Sunday. The death toll from the sinking of a “whaling ship” in Congo is “36 missing persons and 76 survivors”, police reported on twitter. […]
Over 300 internally displaced families in the North West Regions have received support from the government to help them regain their normal life. The distribution of the food items fall in line with the Humanitarian assistance plan put in place by the head of state and coordinated by the Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga […]