A 22- year-old man, Ayokunbi Olaniyi,has been arraigned before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly having sex with a pig.
The police prosecutor, Insp....
A 35-year-old married woman, Omolara Seriki, has allegedly damaged the scrotum of her 52-year-old husband, Raheem, after she allegedly caught him cheating with another...
Popular Nollywood actor, Anayo Modestus Onyekwere, popularly known as Kanayo O Kanayo, has reacted to being called a ritualist on social media.
The actor,...
Liberia’s Education Minister has been flown into Accra and is undergoing treatment after testing positive for Covid-19, sources close to Ghana’s Covid-19 management team...
Liberia’s Education Minister has been flown into Accra and is undergoing treatment after testing positive for Covid-19, sources close to Ghana’s Covid-19 management team...
Nigeria's largest opposition political party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has blamed the demolition of the country's High Commission's property in Ghana on its...
South Africa has rolled out the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial this week.
The university leading the pilot has said, as the country grapples with...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a couple for allegedly inserting a bottle into the private part of the man’s ex-girlfriend.
Osas Onyeokweni, and...
Seven popular journalists in Nigeria have died within the last seven days.
The journalists, who work with different media organizations in Nigeria, died of different...
A middle-aged man, Aminu Bala, has been arrested in Damaga, Zamfara state for allegedly raping and killing his brother’s wife, Hauwa Iliyasu.The spokesman of...
Brazil has become the second country, after the US, to register more than 50,000 deaths from Covid-19.
The grim milestone comes amid growing political unrest...
Why in Britain, in 2020, are black people still marching against racism and injustice?
In a hard-hitting series, launching today on Windrush Day – the...
A team of Nigerian scientists has announced the discovery of a preventive vaccine against the novel coronavirus, local media reported Saturday.
“It is our passion...
Burundi's president-elect, 52-year-old Evariste Ndayishimiye, who is expected to be sworn in Thursday, is highly regarded as a "humble" and "religious" man.
He was among...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has for the second time stopped the use of an antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine on severely ill Covid-19 patients.
Data from...
South Africa has said it was "considering" treating seriously ill Covid-19 patients with dexamethasone, a steroid drug that British medical scientists have hailed as...
A 42-year-old Zimbabwean man who raped his 11-year-old daughter on numerous occasions since she was eight years, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in...
As various campaigns against rape heighten, Ugandan media personality, Faith Mulungi, has claimed that a mother hired thugs to rape and humble her daughter...
The police in Zamfara state have arrested a 25-year-old man, Aminu Bala, who allegedly raped and murdered his elder brother’s wife, Hauwau Iliyasu.
The state police...
Four staff members working in the office of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta have tested positive for coronavirus, a statement from the presidency says.
All four...
In Kenya, more claims have emerged of the police using heavy-handed techniques to enforce the country’s Coronavirus curfew.
The BBC's investigation series, Africa Eye, has...
Some 717 rape cases were recorded in Nigeria between January and May 2020, the Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Muhammad, has revealed.
Speaking to State House...
Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa, has expressed his pain of seeing educated black youth being "instruments" of white people.
In a short clip shared...
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has ordered an investigation into a shooting incident inside the grounds of his official residence involving security guards.
The incident reportedly...
