By Chloe Kim BBC News A woman clad in a trench coat and accompanied by a child opened fire in a crowded Texas megachurch before she was gunned down by security, officials say. The suspect, named by police as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, was with her seven-year-old son, who was critically injured in the Houston shootout. Investigators said the attacker ...
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Herbert Wigwe: Nigerian bank chief killed in US helicopter crash
By Lipika Pelham BBC News The co-founder of Access Bank, one of the largest banks in Nigeria, was among six people killed in a helicopter crash in California on Friday. Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son, and a former president of the Nigerian stock exchange were all killed in the crash. President Bola Tinubu described the death of Mr Wigwe as ...
Read More »US museum hands back Ghana’s looted royal artefacts
https://bbc.com/africalive The king of Ghana’s traditional Asante kingdom – known as the Asantehene – has received seven royal artefacts that had been looted from the kingdom nearly 150 years ago. The items were handed over to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, during a ceremony on Thursday, after they were repatriated from the Fowler Museum, based at the University of ...
Read More »Abolish castration law – Amnesty urges Madagascar
https://bbc.com/africalive Madagascar should abolish a new law which allows for the chemical and surgical castration of people convicted of raping minors as it was “cruel, inhuman and degrading”, rights group Amnesty International has said. Last month, President Andry Rajoelina proposed the amendments to the penal code – that include chemical and surgical castration as punishment for individuals found guilty of ...
Read More »Sebastián Piñera: Former president of Chile dies in helicopter crash
By Ione Wells in São Paulo and Patrick Jackson in London BBC News Chilean ex-President Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms and was also a billionaire businessman, has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 74. Three other people aboard the aircraft survived when it came down in a lake near the southern town of Lago Ranco. Piñera ...
Read More »Air transport – Air Côte d’Ivoire 10 years of business in review and big ambitions for the future
By Christian Chibueze Air Côte d’Ivoire organized a press conference on January 25 at the Radisson Hotel, Abidjan to review its activities over the past 10 years and to outline its major ambitions for the future. The press conference was headed by General Abdoulaye Coulibaly, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Laurent Loukou, Director General and Airbus Vice-President Hadi ...
Read More »Atmospheric river: Three killed as record rainfall drenches California
By Ido Vock and Max Matza BBC News At least three people have been killed by falling trees as a powerful storm drenches California bringing flooding, mudslides and power outages. Fire officials have responded to over 130 flooding incidents and conducted several rescues since the deluge began. Forecasters say heavy rain with life-threatening flash flooding will continue into Tuesday. The ...
Read More »Chile forest fires: At least 112 dead in Valparaíso region
By Malu Cursino BBC News At least 112 people have been killed by forest fires in Chile’s Valparaíso region, local authorities have said. Gabriel Boric declared a state of emergency and said he would make “all necessary resources” available to tackle the situation. It is believed to be Chile’s deadliest forest fire on record. Many of those affected were visiting ...
Read More »Global cancer cases will jump 77% by 2050, WHO report estimates
By: CNNGlobal cancer diagnoses will reach 35 million in 2050, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization – an increase of 77% from the 20 million cases diagnosed in 2022.The data, released Friday by WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, covers 185 countries and 36 forms of the disease. The researchers found that lung cancer was the ...
Read More »Thieves raid Ho Airport to steal solar street light batteries
Source : Schandee TV Schandee TV has discovered the reasons behind the total darkness at night on the pathway leading to Ho Airport from the main Ho-Aflao road. According to our checks, about 30 batteries that are to power the solar streetlights have been taken away by suspected thieves. We have unconfirmed reports of some arrests by Airport authorities. Click ...
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