What recession? Tiwa Savage, Toke Makinwa, AKA fly First Class (photos)

Tiwa and Toke flew First Class to Dubai...while SA rapper AKA flew First Class to Thailand. See the photos after the cut...

"If you like bug my phone" - Wike says his govt will stand with dismissed police officers

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the government and people of the state will stand with the six policemen illegally dismissed by the Police High Command for political reasons because they committed no crime known to law.

The policemen attached to the security team of the Governor were dismissed from the force over allegation of causing chaos during the December 10 legislative re-run election in the state. 

India police re-arrest Nigerian drug dealer who escaped from police custody

The anti-narcotics cell (ANC) of Mumbai police has re-arrested the Nigerian national, who escaped from police custody last week. See previous post here

According to The Times of India, the ANC and the crime branch had launched a manhunt to trace drug convict John Okoro and he was arrested from the Navi Mumbai area, from where he was planning to flee to Mangalore by a private bus.

Okoro, who resided in Koparkhairene in Navi Mumbai, was arrested in 2014 in a drug case. The court convicted him for a three-year jail term. Okoro was sent to Nashik central prison after conviction. 

Video shows Ghana's new president Akufo Addo in plagiarism scandal

It's not the best of times for Ghana's new President, Nana Akufo-Addo. He's currently the butt of jokes across social media in Africa following a plagiarism scandal that has plagued his inaugural speech. Part of his inaugural speech on January 7, 2017 was found to have been lifted from a 1993 speech by President Bill Clinton of the United States.

Parts of the speech also seem to have been lifted from a speech by another US president John F. Kennedy made in 1961.

46-year-old man sentenced to 13 years in jail for raping two schoolgirls repeatedly for years

A part-time builder and DJ who raped two school girls repeatedly for years in London, has been sentenced by a Judge to 13 years in jail. Paul Francis (pictured) from Lewisham, was jailed for 13 years after pleading guilty to five sex assaults and four counts of rape.

Investigation was launched by police in September 2016 after one of the girls summed up the courage and told staff at her school about the attacks. The other younger girl was unable to speak about the terrible abuse but wrote a short note and drawing explaining what Francis had done.

Tiwa Savage and her son pictured at the beach in Dubai

Tiwa Savage and her son, Jamil Balogun are currently in Dubai. She shared these photos of herself with her little boy, having fun by the beach.

Meet the latest Ghanaian presidential wives and daughters (photos)

The wives of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia went out in style to support their husbands as they were officially inaugurated into office. Rebecca Akufo-Addo and Samira Bawumia alongside their beautiful daughters were all seated together at the swearing-in ceremony, which held at the Independence Square on Saturday. See more photos after the cut...