•A rescue worker (2nd L) comforts a woman (L) at the scene of an accident, in Vanderbijlpark, today A minibus carrying students to school collided with a truck south of Johannesburg today, killing 13 pupils, South African police said. It was the latest in a string of deadly crashes in a country whose modern road […]
Seven people died in flooding caused by severe winter weather lashing eastern areas of South Africa and school children are missing after a minibus was swept away, the government said yesterday. Three children were rescued after spending hours in trees to escape rising waters near the Eastern Cape city of Mthatha, one of the areas […]
•Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has launched a Schools Protection Squad in Nasarawa State to strengthen security in educational institutions across the state’s 13 local government areas. Egbetokun, who was represented by AIG Zachariah Achinyan of Zone 4, Makurdi, inaugurated the...
Human rights body said, today, it was investigating reports more than 100 children fell sick after eating a school lunch served after a dead snake was found in the food. “Reportedly, the cook served the food to the children after removing a dead snake from it,” the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, of Indian said […]
It was a near death experience for 13-year-old Hajara and Hauwa, 11, when they were beaten for illegally plucking 10 mangoes belonging to Muhammed Shettima in Pompomari area, Maiduguri, Borno State. The video of the incident went viral at the weekend prompting the arrest of Shettima and his wife, who recorded the incident and posted […]
•Troops A security expert, Bulama Bukarti, has advised President Bola Tinubu to deploy service chiefs and generals at military barracks to Kaduna State till over 287 schoolchildren abducted by bandits in Kuriga village of the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State regain freedom. Bukarti, who was a guest on Channels Television last night...

