Metro
Lightning Strike Kills 20

At least twenty persons were killed on Wednesday, April 1, when a lightning strike damaged a high-voltage power line in a suburb of the Congolese capital Brazzaville, the local mayor and witnesses said.
The mayor of Kintele, Stella Mensah Sassou Nguesso, told state radio that seven bodies had been sent to a nearby morgue and another 13 to a mortuary in the capital.
An eyewitness said lightning “cut through two high-voltage cables,” electrocuting people on the ground.
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“One cable fell on a house… and electrocuted three occupants,” said the eyewitness, who gave his name only as Rock.
“The other cable, which fell into a courtyard flooded with water, electrocuted the neighbours,” he said. The area was hit by heavy rains early Wednesday.
Ambulances, hearses, security officials and electric company workers rushed to the scene, another witness said.
Private individuals could be seen taking some bodies and injured people into their cars to take them to morgues and hospitals.
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The number of injured was not immediately known.
(AFP/PUNCH)
(PHOTO: punchng.com)
Metro
I Provide Four Square Meals A Day For My Wife, Man Tells Court

A commercial mototrcyclist, Malam Isma’il Abubakar, has told a Shari’a Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, that he provides ‘four square meals’ for his wife every day.
Isma’il made this known while responding to his wife, Zainab Saleh’s allegations that he does not provide food for her.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she also alleged that her husband does not respect her parents.
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She said she was done with their 10-year marriage and wanted divorce.
Isma’il, however, prayed the court to give him time to settle the dispute with his wife.
The judge, Malam Malam Anas Khalifa, asked Zainab to provide witnesses who can testify to her claims.
He ordered the couple to present their parents or guardians in court.
Metro
Court Dissolves Marriage, Orders Man To Pay N30,000 Per Month For Kids’ Food

An Area Court at Centre-igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the nine-year-old marriage between a woman, Bilikis Abake and her husband, Kehinde Bintin, over claims of domestic violence.
Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Mr Idris Etsu, held that the respondent, had sent a letter to the court through the bailiff, releasing his wife.
Etsu, consequently, dissolved the marriage between both parties, but ordered the woman to observe three months iddah (waiting) period, before she could remarry again.
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According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the court awarded custody of the two children of the marriage, who are eight-year-old and six-year-old, to their mother.
The court ordered the respondent to pay the sum of N30,000, as monthly maintenance fee.
He held that the father should be responsible for his children’s school fees, and should be allowed unrestricted access to his children, except at odd hours.
Metro
‘My Husband Kept Coffin Under Our Bed, Planned To Use Our Child For Ritual’

In a chilling case that shocked Matero Local Court, Zambia, 36-year-old woman from Chisamba has been granted divorce from her husband, whom she accused of attempting to sacrifice their two children.
Bertha Mumbi told the court that her husband, Abel Ngoma, 46, of Chibombo, allegedly plotted to kill their two daughters—aged 11 years and 7 years as part of ritual instructions he received from a witchdoctor in 2021.
According to Zambia Observer, testifying before the magistrate, Lewis Mumba Bertha said that Abel even made a small coffin in preparation for the supposed death of their firstborn and kept it in their bedroom for four consecutive nights after she refused to participate in the scheme.
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“By then, he had already made a small coffin in readiness for the death of my firstborn. He never told me about the coffin he made. We slept for four days with it under our bed,” she said.
Bertha said the plan was brought to light by the witchdoctor’s informant, who approached her to demand compensation for cancelling the agreement, since she had refused to consent to the sacrifice.
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