'I don’t know why the Police stopped giving me food' - Murderer cries out in Court

Daniel Asiedu, one of the two persons being tried for the murder of a Ghanaian member of Parliament says he is being starved in the police cell and has been subjected to survive on leftovers.

Asiedu and his accomplice, Vincent Bosso were arrested for stabbing JB Danquah Adu to death at his Shiashie residence in Accra on Tuesday, February 9, 2016.

“Please warn your people to not be on the wrong side of history because the Gambian people have spoken” Gambian journalist warns Nigerian Judges

As tension heightens in Gambia due to President Yahyah Jammeh's refusal to concede power to the winner of the last Gambian election, Adama Barrow, a Gambian journalist has called on Nigerian Judges to desist from allowing themselves to be used by Jammeh as mercenaries to veto the people's choice.

The journalist who gave her name as Fatu revealed that Yahya Jammeh is trying to put together a petition at the supreme court and that information reaching The Gambian people is that the Chief Justice has initiated a recruitment process for supreme court judges to come to The Gambia since there is only one supreme court judge in Gambia at the moment and that happens to be the Chief Justice.

"I want to start by saying that if you do not want to be on the wrong side of history, please warn your members to not be part of outgoing President Yahya Jammeh's mercenary," Fatu said in a video shared on Twitter.

Photos: EFCC seizes N948m aircraft allegedly belonging to ex-governor Ali Modu Sheriff

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has impounded a N948million aircraft allegedly belonging to former Borno State governor and PDP factional chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff.

According to The Nation, the aircraft was seized on Monday at the Maiduguri International Airport along with two other private jets under surveillance at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

'Focus on packing out of White House!'- North Korea tells Obama after Kim Jong Un's sister is black listed

The very secretive state of North Korea has told U.S President Barack Obama to focus on leaving the White House rather than North Korea's track record of human rights abuses after the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday imposed additional sanctions on North Korea for it's flagrant abuse of human rights.

The sanctions by OFAC  which includes blacklisting seven North Korean citizens, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un's sister among them, were being enacted alongside the United State Department's "Report on Serious Human Rights Abuses or Censorship in North Korea," 

Video: Disturbing footage shows elderly woman abusing infant in South Africa

A 68-year-old woman believed to be a child carer, was caught on cellphone footage, putting her hand over a struggling infant’s face until the baby went limp.

The South African Police followed up on the information after the video surfaced online and located the woman in Diepsloot. The woman has been arrested and charged with child abuse and will appear in court soon. Watch the video after the cut...

Nigerian man insults Michelle Obama, for not having a male child

Its either this silly 'man' wants to trend or he needs better education. US President, Barrack Obama's wife, Michelle turned 53-year-old yesterday, and she shared a photo of herself posing happily with their family dogs. Apparently, a Nigerian man felt the need to remind her that she doesn't have any male child, even though she has two beautiful daughters, and insulted her for this. See what he wrote after the cut...

Egypt adds ex-footballer, Mohamed Aboutrika to terror list

The Egyptian government has added ex-football star, Mohamed Aboutrika to a terror list for his alleged links with the banned Muslim Brotherhood, his lawyer says

According to BBC, the retired footballer is accused of financially supporting the Brotherhood after endorsing the successful 2012 presidential bid by Mohamed Morsi, who was a brotherhood member

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Mohamed Morsi having become the President of Egypt in June 2012 was dismissed after a mass anti-government protest in July 2013.

Reacting to the accusation Mr. Aboutrika's lawyer, Mohamed Osman, who said former football star has strenuously denied the allegations noted that the move was ‘contrary to the law’, adding that his client had ‘not been convicted or formally notified of any of the charges against him’.