The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
Atleast 37 people has been killed in a demonstration by the citizens of Uganda, the protest arose in the wake of Bobi Wine arrest who’s a strong critique of the president. The forthcoming elections has seen series of unrest in the country. An exhausted looking Wine was conceded bail in the eastern town of Iganga […]
The Health ministry in Nigeria has said that over 140,000 kids die of pneumonia yearly in the country. Some of the reasons of these alarming figures are Illiteracy when some parent fail to take their children to the hospital for proper immunization, another reasons are lack of good healthcare system for children particularly from rural […]
Two people were killed in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta state as protestors against police brutality took to the streets in several Nigerian cities on Friday. One protestor and one police officer were killed while another sustained life-threatening injuries during a protest in the southern town of Ughelli, Hafiz Inuwa, Delta State Commissioner of Police told AFP, […]
At least 40 humans have been reportedly killed in a gasoline tanker explosion in Nigeria’s Logos State, local media suggested Friday. One witness informed newshounds no much less than 40 victims were killed however the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) was capable to confirm solely 23 deaths, along with seven children, The Tide website reported. […]
Attackers with knives killed a Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded any other Sunday earlier than three assailants have been shot useless in a firefight, the protection pressure said, labelling it a “terrorist” act. The attack took area in the traveller district of the coastal city of Sousse, the web site of the worst of […]
At least 10 Malian soldiers have been killed in an overnight ambush in a central area close to the Mauritania border the place armed terrorists are rampant, safety and neighborhood sources stated on Friday. 10 soldiers had been killed, along with a senior officer, in the attack in Guire and 4 automobiles had been torched, […]
Flooding from heavy rains in Niger’s western region has killed at least 45 humans and pressured extra than 226,000 from their homes. Days of rain induced the Niger River to overflow, which actually shut down the capital, Niamey. Along the river in the Kirkissoye district, dozens of mud properties have collapsed, and rice fields have […]
At least three humans were killed and eleven others wounded in clashes between rival ethnic corporations in Sudan on Thursday. The conflict between the Beni Amer tribe and the Beja tribe, following the nomination of Salah Ammar, of the Beni Amer, as the new governor of the japanese Kassala state. Thousands of human beings converged […]
Floods and torrential rains have killed at least sixty 5 people and destroyed greater than fourteen thousand houses in Sudan. Tens of thousands of houses have been damaged, numerous faculties destroyed and water sources rendered unusable. Cattle has died in excessive numbers. “Since 1946 or 1948 there has by no means been floods like this […]
Boko Haram insurgents killed more than 70 participants of a neighborhood in a single day in northeastern Nigeria, nearby media said Wednesday. Ali Ndume, a senator and chairman of the Senate Committee on the Army, stated at a software he was attending in Maiduguri that contributors of the terrorist team killed 75 elderly people in […]
The International Crisis Group (ICG) say communal violence has brought on the demise of some 8,000 human beings and has displaced extra than 200,000 civilians due to the fact that 2011 in Nigeria. According to Amnesty International, central and northwestern Nigerian states have been the scene of a “worrying escalation of attacks and kidnappings” for […]
At least 5 human beings have died due to dozens of wildfires roaring at some stage in Northern California, in accordance to the authorities. Three people have died in Napa Valley and one in Solano County, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, recognized as Cal Fire, stated Thursday in an replace on Twitter. It […]
At least six human beings have now been killed in three days of clashes in Ivory Coast as protestors took to the streets following President Alassane Ouattara’s choice to run for a 1/3 term this October Four human beings had died in two days of clashes in the central town of Daoukro and the southern […]
Unknown gunmen on Sunday nighttime hacked down proprietor of Winners Comprehensive High School (WCHS) in Jalingo metropolis, Taraba State, Danlami Shamaki. The late Shamaki also reportedly headquartered the famous New Edition Primary School, Jalingo. The news of his dying came when the kingdom authorities used to be fashioning out plans to clamp down on hoodlums […]
At least nine people had been killed and 14 others injured on Saturday in a suicide vehicle bombing in the Somalian capital, officers said. Salad Mohamed, a senior police officer in Mogadishu advised KnowAfrika via phone, that a auto weighted down with explosives blew up at the gate of a Somali military military base in […]
Fourteen people, such as thirteen participants of the same household had been killed in an early morning attack via suspected bandits on Wednesday in Agudu, in the Kogi/Kotonkarfe Local Government Area of Kogi State. The kingdom Commissioner of Police, Ede Ayuba, while briefing journalists on the things to do of the command, said “the thirteen […]
A domestic feud ended on a bitter notice after a man stabbed and killed his wife in Gilgil town earlier than surrendering himself to the police. The Tuesday morning incident took place in Gilgil sub-county clinic personnel quarters where two minors died on Monday night time after they were poisoned through unknown persons. In the […]
According to witnesses at the scene, the man drove through a crowd of protesters before smashing into a barrier, after which the protesters rushed to the car and a number of gunshots have been heard. A man was detained in Austin, Texas, on suspicion of shooting and killing a protester, neighborhood police said in a press […]