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Angry villagers confronts armed robbers, lynch two in Tharaka-Nithi County

Angry and daring residents of Gikingo Village in Tharaka-Nithi confronted and accosted three armed robbers, who had stolen money from a trader and injured a pupil, and lynched two of them. The gang had attacked Ms Virginia Mumbi while she was riding on a motorbike on her way to Kathangacinoi market to buy cereals.

Two men, Innocent Egbuna, 33, and Jide Ajayi, 21 who allegedly had anal sex inside a jeep, were on Tuesday docked at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The accused are being tried for a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and act of gross indecency.

Stephanie whispers to Jeremy: 'I love you... me love you.' The two can be seen snuggling up together on the sofa, looking as intimate as ever and very much like a proper couple. He replies, before kissing her on the head: 'I love you too.'


Murdered: Migrant centre worker Alexandra Mezher, 22, was stabbed to death

The mother of the young Swedish social worker who was allegedly stabbed to death by a 15-year-old asylum seeker at a shelter for refugee children wept today and said, 'She was not just my daughter, she was my angel.' Alexandra Mezher, 22, was working alone with ten youths aged between 14 and 17 when she was attacked at the home for unaccompanied young migrants in Mölndal, near Gothenburg.

Trouble: The patient had been suffering pains for two years

A meat-lover who had a two-year stomach pain was horrified when doctors said a 6-metre long tapeworm had grown inside him. Doctors told him it had been caused by his love of raw beef. The patient had been complaining about vomiting, general weakness and a lack of appetite to various doctors over the past two years.

EXPLORER Henry Worsley, who was on the brink of making Antarctic history with a solo crossing across the ice, has died, his family has announced.

The 53-year-old victim is seen being flung violently into the air after being hit by a Fiat 500 as he crossed Montague Place in the Kemptown area of Brighton. A witness could be seen holding their hand to their mouth in apparent shock at the point of impact at 3.40pm on Thursday January 14.

Blac Chyna seemed completely oblivious to the media storm she created earlier in the day when she posted a series of revealing shots on her Instagram account. Tyga’s ex sent the internet into meltdown when she shared a very cosy-looking picture with Rob Kardashian, who was identifiable by his distinct arm tattoos.“The beginning,” she captioned it.

The car mounted the pavement on Fernhill Road, Rutherglen, and struck the 14-year-old boy

POLICE are hunting a maniac who tried to kill two teens by running them over. The boys, aged 14 and 15, were walking along a street in Rutherglen, Glasgow, when a light green Vauxhall Corsa mounted the pavement and struck the younger lad. They were making their way along Fernhill Road at around 2.15pm on Saturday when the incident happened.

Chiefs of the Andani Royal Family

Tension is mounting in Dagbon as the Andani Royal Family readies itself for what it describes as engagement with the Abudus over the funeral of the late Regent Naa Mahamadu Abdulai IV. The threat by the chieftaincy gate has compelled the security agents to be on alert for any eventualities, given the fractious nature of such engagements.

The British Government has acknowledged that Ghana’s controversial voters’ register is bloated by at least 10 percent. According to a correspondence from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a copy of which is available to DAILY GUIDE, the British Government was adequately informed about the trend in the country regarding the register.

A Zimbabwean has been killed by a pride of lions while he was showering in a camp in the country's north. The man was attacked while using an outside shower at a fishing camp near Mana Pools National Park, Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwean Conservation Task Force told German news agency DPA.

A pastor in Zimbabwe has been released from prison after being arrested in December for staging a one-man demonstration against President Robert Mugabe's ruling party. Patrick Mugadza, 45, traveled 300 miles to protest outside a luxury hotel in Victoria Falls where Mr Mugabe and 6,000 delegates from his Zanu PF party were holding an annual conference.

The hijacked bus in Mandera, northern Kenya where 28 people were killed in 2014

A group of Muslims traveling on a bus in the north east of Kenya took a stand against gun-wielding Islamists, refusing to point out who on their bus were Christian despite the terrorists threatening to kill them all. Shukri Farah, driver of the bus, said the Muslims stood on either side of the Christians, to shield them from view.

Hassan Ayariga has formed a new political party called the All People’s Congress (APC), on which ticket he intends to run for president in 2016. Green and cream are the prominent colours of the new party, which has a broom as its emblem.

A Brazilian prisoner has apparently attempted to break out of jail by diving head first down a communal lavatory in a Shawshank Redemption style escape. The man trying to wriggle through an excrement-coated hole in the ground.

Pressure group Organised Labour, have said they have not given up on their planned strike action, which was supposed to have followed their nationwide demonstration. The pressure group on Wednesday, held a nationwide demonstration in protest of what they described as killer taxes on petroleum products and exorbitant hikes in utility tariffs.

British tourists were shocked to see crocodiles eating a man as they took a sunset cruise along the Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The group and their guide spotted the crocodiles feeding on something as they moved down the river from their camp on the Zambian side. When they got closer, they realised it was the bottom half of a human.

A 29-year-old American researcher has been killed in Zambia after she was trampled by an elephant. The woman, named by local media as Margarita Metallinou, was working in the Kafue National Park in central Zambia with two male colleagues when the accident happened at around 1.30pm last Tuesday.

Abuja - An Enugu couple have expressed both shock and hope after giving birth to conjoined twin girls, Punch reports. The twins, Miracle and Testimony, are joined at the groin and despite their condition, appear to be two very healthy children. Despite admitting to initially being traumatized, the babies' father, Segun, has expressed optimism, saying that his faith gave him the courage to pull through. Doctors have revealed that the twins share no vital organs and defecate and urinate normally, given that they have separate genitals and legs. The twins, who are still being treated at the Intensive Care Unit at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, are said to be visited by their mother every day.

Zambia swaps football and beer for Sunday prayers to save economy

A man holds a bottle of Mosi, Zambia's national lager, as the country swapped football and beer for Sunday prayers to save economy

President Edgar Lungu appeals for divine intervention in a host of problems including lower copper prices, electricity shortages and a record drop in the national currency. Football matches were cancelled and bars banned from opening on Sunday as Zambians took part in a national day of prayer and fasting in a bid to halt the sliding value of the country’s currency, the Kwacha.

An attack by three suicide bombers in Maiduguri on Friday, January 22 was foiled by the military just a kilometre into the troubled town, Nigerian troops fighting the insurgency in the northeast have recorded successes against Boko Haram fighters in recent times.

Nairobi - Police in Nairobi, Kenya arrested two foreign nationals with a stash of fake Euros and US dollars amounting to KES 111bn. The two, a Cameroonian and a Nigerien were arrested in the Kilimani area and Diamond Estate on Mombasa Road with the fake currency as well as money minting machines.

Port Harcourt – Nigerians resident in Gauteng Province of South Africa have protested against the alleged extra-judicial killing of a 34- year-old man, Timothy Chinedu, by the police. Mr Mathew Okafor, the Chairman of the Nigeria Union in Gauteng Province, said on phone from Johannesburg that Chinedu was allegedly suffocated to death by the police after his arrest at 9.00 a.m. on Saturday.

Gregory Afoko

The bill of indictment on Gregory Afoko the suspect, who allegedly poured acid on the late Adams Mahama, Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, would be ready at the court’s next sitting. According to Mr Mathew Amponsah, Chief State Attorney the bill of indictment was almost ready and assured the court it would be ready at its next sitting.

Corporal Alexander Kyeremeh

The Ashanti regional Police force, have launched manhunt for four highway robbers believed to be of Fulani origin who shot a police corporal at Kasei near Ejura in the Ashanti region. The 30-year-old Corporal Alexander Kyeremeh stationed at Bimbila in the Northern region was shot in the ribs for disobeying orders of the robbers to passengers to surrender all their possessions.

Corporal Alexander Kyeremeh 30, a police officer stationed at Bimbilla in the Northern Region met his untimely death last Friday afternoon when he was shot in the right rib by armed robbers suspected to be of Fulani descent. The incident occurred around 1pm on the section of the road between Ejura and Hiawonwu in the Ejura Sekyedumasi municipality.

About a year ago, Akoo Nana’s performance at Tigo Unplugged Concert became the talk of town as he brought bare-chested ladies in masks on stage to dance for him.

He came out to defend the act saying he was embarking on a breast cancer campaign hence his act was completely planned to educate the over twenty thousand patrons of the event on breast cancer and its effects. The singer who confirmed in an interview with Livefmghana.com says he does not regret the act. “I don’t regret bringing those girls on stage, I mean it was an art moreover I was preaching a message which I think was misunderstood on stage,” he said.

UN post speaks volumes about my leadership - Mahama boasts on Facebook post

Ghana’s president John Dramani Mahama has said he is “humbled” by a UN appointment to co-chair a session on Sustainable Development Goals. Mahama is co-chairing together with the Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway. According to him, the appointment “speaks volumes about Ghana’s leadership on the path of sustainable development.”

“...Let’s be very careful about what we say or what we don’t say. Because speech is not only words...It is very important to our winning the elections, but the only effective instrument to winning elections is vigilance. “You can make the laws, you can put the systems in place, you can do everything but if you are not vigilant you cannot win the elections. You don’t win elections through the Electoral Commission and courts never win elections for anybody,” The Majority leader in Parliament Alban Bagbin said

Kisa is a young Ghanaian actress and singer who hails from the Volta region of Ghana, she is a product of Ghallywood Academy and she is such a talented actress and a very cool and lovely lady. Last week Saturday, she celebrated her 24th birthday, she donated to the Children’s ward at Korlebu teaching hospital.

A piece of suspected plane wreckage has been found off the coast of southern Thailand, a local official said on Saturday, prompting speculation it might belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished nearly two years ago.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said his government will acquire armoured vehicles for the police to help boost the fight against terrorism across the East African nation. Kenyatta said the armoured personnel carriers will help the police to fight terrorism and organised crime without depending on the military which is involved in the fight against Al-Shabaab in neighbouring Somalia.

For a while now, many Ghanaians have held divided opinions on whether or not Asamoah Gyan, captain of the country’s national football team, has a wife and if so who she might be.

The Communication Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea has charged Organised Labour to disagree with any tariff increases beyond 17 per cent. Nana Akomea described the stance of leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) – who are demanding that tariffs should not be increased beyond 50 per cent across the board – as too lenient.

The controversy surrounding the election of Dr Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings as the Klottey Korle Constituency parliamentary candidate for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is far from over. This time around, Nii Armah Ashittey, incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, and Nii John Coleman, who were defeated in the NDC primary, filed a joint suit at an Accra High Court challenging Dr Zanetor’s legitimacy to contest this year’s parliamentary elections.

The founder of France's Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is suing a dancer for publishing a selfie with the far-right veteran asleep in the seat in front of him on an airplane. The case pitches Le Pen's claim to the right to privacy against breakdancer Brahim Zaibat's right to mock him in a classic French freedom of expression dispute.

Big Brother Africa the chase representatives, Pokello Nare and Elikem Kumordzie who traditionally got married in June 2015 has welcomed their first child. Very reliable reports available to our source has it that Pokello has given birth to a baby daughter in Harare during the Christmas festivities.

The Ashanti Regional National Democratic Congress (NDC) seems to have incurred the displeasure of traders of the Kumasi Central Market. The angry traders, who are mostly women, surprisingly rejected items the NDC presented to them to lessen their burden. The affected traders suffered huge losses when fire gutted about 400 stores in the Kumasi Central Market some few days ago. Foodstuffs and other valuable items that the traders kept in the stores were gutted by the ferocious fire.

A caretaker at a building site at Mpatado in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis who suspected a man of stealing five iron rods has done the unthinkable by chopping off the suspected thief’s right hand. Egya Kojo Mensah, the caretaker, later took the victim, Kofi Badu, to the police station.

File picture of flooding in Zimbabwe a few years ago

Heavy rains are expected in some areas including Nyamandlovu, Tsholotsho and Kezi with the possibility of floods starting on Monday, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned. The Head of the MSD’s Public Weather Services, Tich Zinyemba, said a cloud system moving from South Africa and Botswana, will bring the heavy rains.

Commuters onboard a commercial vehicle (Trotro) from the Kwesimintsim area in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis to the Central Business District of the twin-city were dumbfounded when one of them reportedly fell down and died after alighting at the vehicle’s final destination on Thursday.

The office of Akua Donkor, the flagbearer of the Ghana Freedom Party located at Kabu along the Koforidua-Akropong Highway in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region was gutted by fire on Friday afternoon.

“We have [288] more days left for Ghanaians to witness the proper management of the National Health Insurance Scheme to be put, [288] days towards the restoration of teaching and nursing trainee allowances, and [288] more days for the prudent management of the nation’s resources.” Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, New Patriotic Party vice presidential candidate made this statement as he begun the countdown to election 2016, assuring Ghanaians that victory for the NPP will lead to the total transformation of Ghana.

Our attention has been drawn to a very serious issue going on in Ghana and Social Media. We’ve been reliably informed that, Mr. Horace Nii Ayi Ankrah, deputy ambassador to China has issued a communiqué on Tuesday January.19th, 2016 stated that, Chinese in Guangzhou now accept cedis. After a detailed study and deep reflection on the communiqué, we wish to take this opportunity to call all Ghanaian traders to totally reject all of the claims made by the deputy ambassador.

A social media campaign to raise funds for the family of a Muslim teacher who died protecting Christians during an attack in Kenya is gaining traction, with people hailing him as a "genuine hero" and a symbol of the country. Salah Farah was shot after refusing to be separated from Christian passengers during an al-Shabab attack on a bus traveling from Mandera to Nairobi last month.

Two Nigerians, Mark Adigun Latif alias Nana Adjei and Toefeek Ajisafe Oluwashola alias Benjamin Osei, who allegedly defrauded a German female engineer to the tune of £260,000 and $350,000 (GHC2.7 million) under the pretext of supplying her with gold, have been arraigned before court for fraud. The accused persons, were put in an Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Afi Agbaney Kudamor and charged with conspiracy to commit crime.

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has asked Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Lamu County authorities to formulate laws that would regulate activities at beaches to curb the harassment of tourists. Mr Balala on Thursday said he would link with governors to find solutions to thorny issues affecting the sector.

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