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19-year-old raped by 11 men and thrown to her death from building

A 19-year-old woman has died after being gang-raped by at least 11 men and thrown from the sixth floor of a building. Hamdi Mohamed Farah was lured...

I warned killer pastor before he murdered his wife – Elisha Salifu Amoako [Video]

Archbishop Elisha Salifu Amoako, the Founder and Overseer of Alive Chapel International, says he warned Sylvester Ofori, the Ghanaian pastor who shot his wife...

Barbaric: Man storms Parliament with human head, says its a gift to the speaker (Photo)

What can only be described as a horror movie played out on Monday, September 14 at the Parliament building in Uganda when a 23-year-old...

Crippled blocks police van for this! [video]

A viral video of a brave handicapped man challenging the police to release a friend protesting fuel hike and electricity hikes has become an...

Kenyan police officers ‘told to buy their own uniforms’

A section of police officers in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, have been buying their own uniforms from civilian tailors to comply with an alleged order...

Rawlings hosts Malian military leaders [Photos]

Former President Jerry Rawlings has engaged leaders of the Malian military in a peace talk following a mutiny in the country. A four-man delegation...

Residents laugh hard as fowl thief eats bird alive (video)

Mob injustice was taken to another level as a suspected fowl thief was forced by residents to eat the bird without cooking it. The heartbreaking incident, reported...

Govt officials arrested for allegedly stealing donated computers

Police in Malawi has arrested two former Information officials for allegedly stealing computers and generators that were meant for a state-owned news agency.   The...

Man arrested for attempting to gift human head to Speaker of Parliament

Police are investigating a man who allegedly delivered a child's head in the Ugandan Parliament building disguised as a wrapped gift for speaker Rebecca...

Man shot dead after argument over shawarma

A 35-year-old man, Kayode Oloruntoba, was shot dead by a fellow customer at a shawarma joint in Alagbado, Lagos, on Friday, September 11, 2020.According...

Nigeria’s slave descendants prevented from marrying who they want

In a tragedy reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, a couple in Nigeria killed themselves earlier this month after their parents had forbidden them from...

Heads of States arrive for ECOWAS meeting [Photos]

Heads of the various West African Countries have arrived for the scheduled September 15 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in the...

Top politician’s fully furnished air-conditioned burial ground causes uproar (Video+photos)

Nigerian senator and former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, was one of the high-profile casualties of the coronavirus pandemic which was raging...

Pastor Chris predicts when rapture will happen

Founder of Loveworld Ministries, also known as Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has spoken about rapture and when it will happen. According to the Church...

Businessman to pay 10 cows, 3 goats reparation to family, after confessing to killing their son [photos+video]

Ugandan businessman, Mathew Kanyamunyu, on Saturday afternoon, September 12, 2020, admitted to killing a child rights activist, Kenneth Akena Watson and agreed to pay 10 cows...

Popular porn star in trouble for allegedly shooting movie inside shrine

A popular porn star in Nigeria is in deep trouble for allegedly shooting a porn movie inside the Osun Osogbo shrine. The actor, known as...

Bride breaks down in tears over wedding gift (video)

The viral video of a Nigerian bride, who broke down in tears when her mother presented her with a car on her wedding day,...

READ: Why killer pastor’s wife did not report death threat to police

A friend to the woman murdered by his husband in the United States of America (USA) has revealed why the deceased refused to report...

Woman assaulted after surprise car gift from her husband turns out to be a stolen car

A South African woman was beaten up after her husband innocently surprised her with a Toyota Yaris that turned out to be a stolen...

Liberia declares rape a national emergency

Liberian President George Weah has declared rape a national emergency and ordered new measures to tackle the problem after a recent spike of cases...

Gate-crasher kills birthday celebrant

A birthday party ended in tragedy as a guest, Sunday Phillip allegedly stabbed the celebrant, Omeika Josiah to death at Amini Awo village in...

‘Killer pastor’s church members still in shock

Members of the Floodgates of Heaven International Ministries are “devastated” after their Ghanaian pastor was charged with fatally shooting his wife outside her job...

Angry farmer threatens to shoot Buhari (Video)

The 26-second video was uploaded on the micro-blogging platform on Friday by a Twitter user @RomanusEke1 who wrote, “Mr President, this hardworking farmer has a...

Fowl thief forced to eat bird alive [Video]

A viral video on social media has captured moments a suspected thief was forced to eat a fowl he stole. Reports indicate the incident...

Nigerian state approves castration of convicted rapists

The state assembly in Kaduna, in north-western Nigeria, has approved full surgical castration as punishment for those convicted of rape. State commissioner for women’s affairs...

Man dies in car accident three days after his wedding [Photos]

A Nigerian man, Rex Ebube Amatu, has died in a fatal accident, just three days after his wedding in Delta State. According to reports, Rex,...

WHO and Africa CDC launch Covid-19 laboratories network

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) have launched a new laboratory network that will reinforce genome sequencing...

Wife divorces husband for allegedly stealing her pant for rituals

A Nigerian woman, identified as Sadia Abass, has divorced her husband over alleged claims that he stole her pant for rituals. Sadia, who is...

Man defiles daughters including 9 months old baby

A 28-year-old man has allegedly defiled his three daughters including a nine months old baby. The suspect, according to reports, was arrested following a report...

Woman banished for allegedly sleeping with neighbours’ teenage sons

A 35-year-old woman from Kenyoni One Village in Kitutu Chache North in Kisii County has been banished from her in-laws’ community after she allegedly...

Liberia’s Charles Taylor ‘bid to move prison rejected’

A special court in Sierra Leone has rejected a bid by convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor to be moved from a British prison...

Footballer slumps and dies during match(photo)

A football player in Osun State simply identified as Damilola, has died after he reportedly slumped during a football match in the Ido area of the...

READ: Trump’s shocking question to Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed what happened when he visited United States President, Donald Trump at the White House in April 2018. According to him, President...

Meet the first Nigerien scientist to work for Nasa

Fadji Maina has become the first scientist from Niger to work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa). The 29-year-old hydrologist earned her PhD...

Lady slips to her death while posing for photos during an outing with her fiancé

A woman has died after she slipped and fell while posing for photos during a date with her fiancé. The 31-year-old Dorcas Jepkemoi Chumba drowned when...

Zambia’s president mourns death of good-luck fish

Zambia’s President, Edgar Lungu, has joined the nation in mourning the death of a fish that lived in a pond at the country’s second-biggest...

Nigerian men arrested over German PPE ‘scam’

Two Nigerian men have been arrested for allegedly scamming a German state that tried to buy 2.3m euros (£2m) of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Nigerian...

Drunk security man dies with face mask on

A security guard, identified as Solomon Ede, has died after he allegedly slept wearing his face mask in his place of work in Alako area...

Check out how much Nigeria has spent on COVID-19 fight

The Accountant-General of the Federation of Nigeria, Ahmed Idris, has revealed the total amount spent on Covid-19 represents 84 per cent of the N36.3bn...

Meet Nigeria’s tallest man [Photos]

Afeez Agoro Oladimeji was just like any other child while growing up until the age of 19 when he fell ill and soon started...