When a crack unit of Kenyan narco cops raided a Mombasa villa in November, after an eight-month undercover US investigation, it marked a step change in Africa’s fight against drug trafficking.

It is nap-time at Felizia’s daycare centre, a squalid street-level flat in Tel Aviv where loud pop music drowns out the miserable cries of dozens of children and babies cooped up inside.

More than 70 people were killed in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital, Accra, as they sought shelter from heavy rains that caused widespread flooding, the police and Red Cross said Thursday.

ELEVEN arsonists suspected to be rival youths of Oghara community, Ethiope-West Local Government Area, Delta State, country home of an ex-governor of the state, Chief James Ibori, early hours of Tuesday, set fire to the residence of the youth chair, Mr Ejiro Efetobo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be received by Pope Francis on June 10, a Vatican spokesman said on Thursday.

Since the days of Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, when his late wife, Maryan, brought flamboyance and lots of glamour to the office of First Lady with her pet project, “Better Life for Rural Women”, Nigeria has had First Ladies who attempted to complement the efforts of their husbands, sometimes to the point of absurdity and national embarrassment.

MOTHERS who breastfeeding still shy away from breastfeeding their babies because they think their breasts would go flat, need to have a rethink.

The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized 90 bags of Indian hemp weighing 1,259kg from suspected traffickers in the border town of Imeko in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of the state.

THE Senate was thrown into rowdy session, yesterday, following the passage of 46 bills into law less than10 minutes they were introduced by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang.

Senator Hope Uzodinma is returning to the Senate for a second time on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to represent the Imo West Senatorial District.