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Nairobi: Female police officer attacked, uniform stolen

A female police officer is nursing injuries after being stabbed in the back by unknown assailants in Nairobi.The officer, attached to the Kenyatta...

Gbagbo’s statesmanship must be commended

Former President of Cote D’Ivoire, Koudou Laurent Gbagbo deserves commendation for his statesmanship and the love for peace and democracy since returning to his...

Blind woman arrested over exhumed human skull

A visually impaired woman, identified as Mrs. Eseme James, a native of Nnung Oku Ibiet village in Oruk Anam Local government area of Akwa...

Man kills wife’s lover after luring him with erotic texts

An alleged philandering man from Chivi died after he was stabbed to death by his lover’s husband. The suspicious husband lured the cheating man...

Shock as ‘female prisoner’ is discovered to be actually male

There was chaos and drama at Shurugwi Female Prison last week after a supposedly female prisoner was discovered to be a male.According to the...

15-year-old commits suicide after he was caught having sex

A Form One student from Chitungizwa in Zimbabwe, has committed suicide after being busted by his own mother bedding a 14-year-old girl.The boy was...

90-year-old defiles 2 granddaughters; claims victims ‘seduced him’

The Dedza Senior Resident Magistrate Court has sentenced a 90- year old grandfather to 21 years imprisonment for defiling two granddaughters aged 10 and...

71-year-old man allegedly dies during sex romp in hotel

Tragedy struck in Sagamu when a 71-year-old man, identified as Ajibola Olufemi Adeniyi, reportedly died during a sex romp with a commercial sex worker...

Devil tempted me to rape 11-year-old girl – Suspect tells court

A 42-year-old man, Joel Jacob, who is being remanded in a Jos Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl, claims that the devil...

Woman sues two brothers for stoning her house at night

Two brothers have found themselves on the wrong side of the law over malicious damage claims.The suspects, Paul Njau Kibue and John Njua...

Teacher arrested for trading blows with student in classroom [Video]

A private school teacher has been arrested following an outcry that trailed a viral video of him assaulting his student.The teacher, identified as Michael...

Don’t allow pain of losing election influence suspicion of cheating – Akufo-Addo

The Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Nana Akufo-Addo, has charged presidential aspirants on the African continent to prioritize...

Masquerades arrested after robbery operation

Two masquerades have been arrested for allegedly robbing a resident of Melege community in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.The suspects, identified as Sheriff...

Judge summoned after being accused of failing to check bank balance in fraud case

A Nairobi court has summoned Kitale High Court judge, his wife, and his son to appear in court on November 12, 2021, in a...

Elon Musk mocks Jeff Bezos as he extends lead as world’s richest man with $222 billion

Elon Musk has come through on his promise to send Jeff Bezos a silver medal now that the Tesla CEO has surpassed the Amazon founder to become...

Student allegedly stabbed to death over woman

A Form Four student was on Monday, October 11 stabbed to death after he had issues with another man over a woman in a...

Woman in police custody for alleged child theft

A woman, who claimed to have been given a two-month-old baby, is in police custody as investigations go on.This was after she was...

Woman in court over slap that led to loss of neighbour’s teeth

A Kenyan woman has landed herself in court after she allegedly slapped a young boy whom she found sitting outside to a point of...

Headmaster bags life sentence for defiling 13 male pupils

The International Crimes Division of the High Court (ICD) Uganda on Friday, October 8, sentenced a pastor to life imprisonment after he was convicted...

Two allegedly killed over memory card

Two families are grieving the loss of their loved ones after their people were killed in separate incidents for demanding their memory cards.In...

SHS student fakes own kidnap to extort money from ‘stingy’ mum

A Senior High School 3 (SHS) student in Abia State, identified as Obinna Nwatu, has been arrested by the police for faking his kidnap to...

Suspected thief electrocuted in attempt to steal transformer cables

A suspected thief met his death on Tuesday while allegedly vandalising an electric cable on Eric Moore Road, in the Surulere area of Lagos...

Man allegedly kills neighbour for mocking him over wife

Police in Yala, Siaya County, Kenya are in pursuit of a 28-year-old man who clobbered his 30-year-old neighbour to death.According to the police,...

Mahama mourns as ‘true friend’ passes on

Former President John Dramani Mahama is mourning the death of Kenyan legal practitioner, Evans Monari.Mr Monari reportedly passed on on Monday night at the Nairobi Hospital's...

Mountain Gorilla in famous selfie dies aged 14

Ndakasi, the Gorilla who photobombed a Selfie, has died in the arms of her caretaker.She died at age 14 in the Democratic...

Rapist teacher ignores judge, reads Bible while being sentenced

A primary school teacher caused drama at the Milimani law courts in Nairobi moments where he was slapped with a 20-year jail term for defiling...

Guinea junta leader appoints civilian prime minister

Guinea’s military leader has named former civil servant Mohamed Beavogui as prime minister to oversee the transition to civilian rule following last month’s coup.Mr...

Three inmates who escaped from prison killed in gun battle with police

Three death row inmates who escaped from the Oko Maximum Correctional Center in Benin, Edo State during the #EndSARS jailbreak have been killed in...

Man in court for biting police officer at fuel station

A city motorist who was arrested for being in an altercation with a petrol station security guard before biting a police officer has denied...

Four dead as wall collapses during marriage ceremony

Four people have been killed with eleven seriously injured after a wall collapsed on them in Limpopo, South Africa.The incident happened on Saturday during...

Two women escape death in attempted dawn robbery

Two women who were headed to work on Tuesday morning are lucky to be alive after they survived an attack by three gun-toting thugs,...

4 die as wall collapses during engagement ceremony

Four people have been confirmed dead after a wall collapsed on guests during payment of bride price ceremony (lobola) in GaChuene Thokgwaneng, South Africa...

Tears as journalist dies 2 days after wedding [Photos]

A renowned Malawi journalist, business and development communication practitioner, identified as Russell Chimbayo, has passed away two days after his wedding. Russell and Jacqueline Joana...

Two security personnel killed, patrol vehicles burnt as gunmen attack office [Photos]

Yet-to-be-identified armed hoodlums have attacked the office of a neighbourhood watch group in the Enugu State of Nigeria.Two security personnel including a vigilante commander identified...

Popular singer removes pants on stage to receive ‘fresh air’

Popular South African Singer, Zodwa Wabantu, is on the lips of netizens again after she created a scene during her latest performance.As the atmosphere...

Woman allegedly commits suicide; cites harassment from son in note

A 55-year-old woman in Kakamega took her own life and left a suicide note behind.Elimina Khati Makongo is said to have hanged herself in her...

Bizarre: Bride and groom walk on the back of their guests at wedding reception [Video]

A scene from a Southern Tanzanian wedding has set tongues wagging as netizens are yet to phantom the incident.The bride and groom were captured...

Ghana to lead Africa in the next 20 years – Man of God declares

"In the next 20 years, Ghana will transform and will lead Africa," says the Founder of Pottersville Church International, Bishop Sam Owusu.He made...

Woman invites press as she ruins hubby’s wedding with mistress [Video]

It was a sight to behold in a Rwandan Apostolic church when a woman stormed the premises with media men to disrupt her husband's...

Prominent Nigerian shot dead in the face

A prominent Nigerian doctor has been gunned down when he returning from a commemorative lecture in honour of his late wife – a government...