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India sets world record for most COVID-19 infections in 24 hours

India reported 78,761 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours on Sunday, the highest single-day rise in the world since the pandemic began, while the...

Omotola and her kids recover from COVID-19

Veteran Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and her children have recovered from COVID-19. Kemi Filani News earlier reported that, the actress contracted COVID 19 and had...

Bernard A. Mensah heads Bank of America

Bernard Mensah is president of International for Bank of America, and is a member of the company’s executive management team. He is also chief executive...

Man weeps after girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal [video]

A video of a Nigerian man weeping and rolling in the mud after his girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal has been shared online. According to...

TB Joshua sends important message to Donald Trump

Prophet TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations has reminded President Donald Trump of the prophecy he gave concerning his re-election bid. The...

After waiting for 7 years, lady dies after welcoming quadruplets [Photos]

A 35-year-old trader, Adedotun Afusat Feyishara, has died on her wedding anniversary after giving birth to quadruplets in Lagos.According to her sibling, Afusat died...

40% of married Nigerian men are bi-sexual- Actress reveals

Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, has revealed that about 40 per cent of married Nigerian men are “Down-low” (bi-sexual). The Kogi state born actress made this...

George Weah under pressure for this reason

Liberia's President George Weah has come under criticism for not personally receiving a petition from protesters campaigning for anti-rape laws to be strengthened. This follows...

Why this pastor won’t bless a marriage

Controversial Kenyan preacher, Godfrey Migwi has announced that he won't officiate any wedding in which the groom is yet to see his bride's face...

Zimbabwe makes it illegal for schools to expel pregnant girls

Zimbabwe has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils who get pregnant, a measure aimed at tackling gender inequality in the classroom and...

Africa coronavirus cases near 1.2 million mark

African countries are closing in on 1.2 million Coronavirus cases mark, according to an update by Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The...

One of Ethiopia’s main coronavirus centres ‘nearly full’

One of Ethiopia's biggest coronavirus treatment facilities has told its patients it is nearly full and may not be able to accommodate new patients. The...

Woman’s long hair entangled in the wheels of Okada [Video]

A video showing a woman's long hair enmeshed in the tyre of a motorbike (okada) she was riding on has gone viral on social...

Africa to be declared free of wild polio in ‘milestone’

Africa is to be declared free from wild polio by the independent body, the Africa Regional Certification Commission. Polio usually affects children under five, sometimes...

University student ‘runs mad’ [Video]

A crowd gathered after a Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) student allegedly ran mad and jumped off a bike in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. In...

How I escaped from police custody – Serial killer confesses

A suspected serial killer has narrated how he initially escaped from Mokola Police Station in the Akinyele area of Ibadan, Oyo State. According to him,...

‘World’s oldest man’ dies aged 116 in South Africa

A South African who was thought to be the oldest man in the world has died at the age of 116. Fredie Blom's identity documents...

Doctors in Kenya’s capital begin strike

More than 300 doctors in public hospitals in Kenya's capital Nairobi have begun a strike. The health workers want better pay and working conditions including...

Shocker: Woman who was pregnant for 10 years recounts horrible experience (Watch)

Legit.ng crew had a major encounter with Elizabeth Packal, a woman who revealed she was pregnant for 10 years. In an exclusive interview with her,...

Man threatens to sue doctor for giving him blood to revive him while unconscious

An accident victim has revealed his intention to sue a medical doctor for giving him blood to revive him, claiming that blood transfusion is...

WHO, UNICEF urge reopening of schools in Africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have urged African governments to promote the safe reopening of schools during the...

Good news as Coronavirus cases in Africa fall

There are signs of hope on the African continent as cases of COVID-19 begin to fall in some worst hit countries. The continent-wide daily average was 10,300...

Lady arrested for faking kidnap to extort money from her parents (Photo)

Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a lady, Idris Mary, for self-kidnapping in Akure with the help of her boyfriend. The Commissioner of Police, Tunde...

House-help caught poisoning her madam’s drink with an insecticide [video]

A video of a Nigerian house-help, who was caught trying to poison her madam’s drink with an insecticide, has surfaced on the internet. In the...

Kenya to study Covid-19 blood plasma treatment

Kenya is developing a protocol that will allow experts to explore treatment of moderately ill Covid-19 patients with blood plasma from recovered patients. Covid-19 survivors...

Mali’s President resigns and dissolves parliament

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned, after being detained by soldiers on Tuesday, state TV reports.In a televised address, Mr Keïta said he...

Soldiers seize Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has been arrested by mutinying soldiers, a government spokesman has confirmed to the BBC.Prime Minister Boubou Cissé has also...

Kenya dismisses exposé on looting of Covid-19 funds

Kenya’s health ministry has dismissed an exposé that alleged massive looting and disappearance of millions of dollars of donor funds and equipment meant to...

Photo: Pastor holds special prayer for Trump’s re-election

A pastor in Imo state in Nigeria has organized a special prayer session to pray for Donald Trump's re-election as the president of the...

Man narrates how he had a baby with a ‘ghost’

A South African man has narrated how he unknowingly had a baby with a "female ghost" he dated for four years.  @Pluto_GP_ stated that he...

Woman in trouble for biting hubby’s manhood

A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for biting her husband’s penis while he was asleep at their home in Umuofuga Umuhu, Imo State. A cousin...

Shocking: Maiden witches and wizards meeting held in Nigeria [photos]

The maiden anniversary of Progressive Witches and Wizards Association held their annual meeting on Friday at Araba castle in Osogbo, Osun state. Renowned Ifa priest,...

I’ve been praying to God to bring me someone like Burna Boy – Diddy

American rapper and producer, Sean Jean Combs, popularly known as Diddy, says he has been praying to God to send him someone like Nigerian...

Burna Boy features Ghana’s Ama Ata Aidoo on ‘Twice As Tall’ album

What does an African literary giant like Ama Ata Aidoo have in common with Nigerian afrobeat artiste, Burna Boy? The answer is 'Twice As...

7 members of a family die of food poisoning, husband runs mad

A food poisoning incident at Auki village of Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State has left seven members of same family, consisting of...

Ivorians protest Ouattara’s third term run

President Alassane Ouattara will run for a third term in the October elections in Cote d’Ivoire, and some fifty-odd Ivorians are indignant as they...

Rapist begs police to kill him [Video]

A man, who was arrested and confessed to being an armed robber and a rapist, suggested that police officers should kill him, and a video...

Nigeria goes digital, set to include DNA data for ID cards

Nigeria has moved from National Identification and Registration of citizens via card-based version to strictly digital, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and...

Lady who deliberately infected men with HIV begs for forgiveness (video)

A Kenyan lady, Harriet Vihenda Akunava took to social media to beg for forgiveness for infecting people with HIV. While many thought she was joking, the...

70-year-old sentenced to death for defiling 12-year-old girl

An Islamic court in the Nigerian city of Kano has sentenced a 70-year-old man to death for defiling a 12-year-old girl. In recent weeks, there...