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Lagos explosion: 3 year old rescued unhurt from rubbles

Emergency officials have rescued a three-year-old girl, Favour, from the rubble at the Abule-Ado explosion site in Lagos.Chairman, Nigeria Red Cross Society (NRCS) Lagos...

Nigerian doctor dies of coronavirus

Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Mamora, has said that a Nigerian medical doctor residing in Italy, has died of Coronavirus. Olumide Okunuga, a 63-year-old Nigerian...

‘The day I discovered I was born without a private part’

I was born with a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), where you have no womb or vagina, and you can also find yourself with...

How a female teacher died after saving her students in Lagos gas explosion

Among the victims who died in Nigeria's recent gas explosion is Rev Sr Henrietta Alokha SSH, Principal of Bethlehem Girls College, Abúlé Ado near...

Coronavirus: Four South Africans left in Wuhan

The South African government has said that four of its citizens had to remain behind during repatriation from Wuhan in China - the epicentre...

Gas explosion: Heartbroken man cries bitterly as he questions God [Video]

A heartbreaking video of a man who is one of the victims of Nigeria's recent gas explosion is fast circulating on the internet.The...

This beautiful couple died in Nigeria’s gas explosion [Photo]

Victims of the painful Lagos gas explosion which happened on Sunday morning are now being named.One Twitter user who lost a friend and...

Coronavirus: First human trial for vaccine to start on March 16

The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according...

Coronavirus: Supreme Court suspends proceedings

Supreme Court in Rwanda has issued a statement restricting face to face court activities as a precaution in the wake of the fast-spreading new...

Coronavirus: Mandatory 14 days self-quarantine to be imposed on travelers to Ghana

Government has announced that people arriving in Ghana from countries with 200 or more reported cases of coronavirus will not be allowed into the...

Coronavirus: University of Ghana cancels lectures on all its campuses over a recorded case

The University of Ghana has cancelled lectures on all its campuses with immediate effect after a student tested positive for novel coronavirus.A statement signed...

AngloGold Ashanti confirms case of coronavirus at Obuasi Gold Mine

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana has confirmed an employee at its Obuasi Gold Mine in Ghana, has tested positive with the COVID-19 virus.The employee is a...

Rwanda confirms first coronavirus case; President Kagame cautions against panic

President Paul Kagame has called upon Rwandans to showcase discipline and not to panic in the wake of the country’s confirmation of its first...

Coronavirus: University of Ghana cancels all interim assessments

The University of Ghana has suspended all interim assessment for students, effective March 15 until further notice.A circular issued by executives of the Students’...

Coronavirus: Rwanda closes churches, schools

Rwanda's Ministry of Health has released a statement asking it's citizens to close down all places of worship and educational facilities following the confirmation...

Just In: 6 coronavirus cases confirmed in Ghana so far [Video]

Dr Badu Sarkodie, the Director for Public Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has admitted that there are four more new coronavirus cases,...

Coronavirus victim in Sudan dies

Sudan says a man in his 50s who died on Thursday in the capital, Khartoum, had coronavirus, confirming the country's first case....

How a pregnant goat was raped to death

The long arms of the law has caught up with a 22-year-old rapist, Sunday Ogaji, for allegedly defiling a pregnant goat till it died.ALSO...

Watch: How Russia used Ghanaians to manipulate US elections

An investigation by CNN has revealed how Russia allegedly employed Ghanaians, mostly about age 20 as trolls with social media accounts, targeted at manipulating...

Soulja Boy’s soap company triples profits amid coronavirus pandemic

Soulja Boy chose the right time to invest in a soap company.The 29-year-old rapper recently revealed that he and manager Miami Mike invested in a...

Nigeria is now Coronavirus free as two patients recover fully

Nigeria is for now Coronavirus free after all of its two cases now test negative.Both first and second Coronavirus patients have now fully recovered, according...

Frightened Prince Charles forgets Coronavirus greetings [photos+video]

Prince Charles shocked onlookers when he literally jumped in panic after almost forgetting the official coronavirus guidelines on shaking hands as he arrived for...

Coronavirus: What happened to those who sat in the plane with the infected? – Mr Logic asks

Entertainment pundit cum musician, Emmanuel Barnes, popularly known as Mr Logic, has questioned aviation authorities in Ghana over the confirmation of two cases of...

Coronavirus: Stonebwoy’s New York show postponed

Authorities in New York have issued drastic directives to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus. This has compelled dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy, to suspend...

Doctors claim new coronavirus ‘may cause damage to a man’s testicles

Doctors in China have urged male coronavirus patients to test their fertility as soon as they recover because the infection may damage the function of their testicles.No study...

Female prison inmates beg for sex

Sex starved female prisoners in Kenya are pleading with authorities to implement new laws that will allow them to have sexual intimacy with their...

Dangote loses N240 billion in five hours due to coronavirus

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, suffered a huge loss due to coronavirus on Wednesday March 11, as he lost N240 billion in five hours. Dangote’s firms...

Meet the female pastor with anointed sex organ

A Nigerian pastor identified as Mrs Veronica has revealed that men who sleep with her, get cured from their fertility problems.ALSO READ:Video...

Coronavirus: Priest who served communion tests positive

A Catholic priest who distributed communion and shook hands with more than 500 worshippers has become the first confirmed Covid-19 case in Washington,...

My wife dated, slept with 8 different men, man tells court

An Ibadan-based barber, Abdulahi Olabamiji, yesterday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, that his wife, Yetunde, was wayward and he had...

Police arrest female teacher who steals and eat pupils’ food

A female teacher in Lagos Nigeria has been picked up by police for continuously stealing and eating food meant for pupils of the school...

Burkina Faso confirms first two cases of coronavirus

Burkina Faso has confirmed its first two cases of the novel coronavirus, local media reported Monday.The two patients are a couple, the wife having...

Strange but true: Mother gives reason for getting married to her son[photos]

A woman, identified as Memory Njemani, has revealed her reason for getting married to her son.In a publication in one of the Malawian...

My lawyers will get to the bottom of this – Okyeame Kwame fires back at Ambolley

Rapper Okyeame Kwame declined to answer questions about his scuffle with veteran musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley in an interview on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM....

Mercy Johnson’s husband drags Davido to court

It has been reported that Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson’s husband, Mr Peter Okojie, has sued sensational singer, Davido for allegedly duping him.It was gathered that the...

Man kills 14-year-old pregnant girlfriend

A 27-year-old man, Shafiru Haruna, is in the grips of the police for murdering his 14-year-old girlfriend over unwanted pregnancy.Based on a tip...

Wife of SA’s first coronavirus patient also has virus

The wife of South Africa's first coronavirus patient has also tested positive, bringing to three the number of cases detected in the country, the...

Take a closer look at Fella Makafui’s diamond ring Medikal gave her [Video]

Take a closer look at Fella Makafui's diamond ring

Pastor jailed for 34 years for abuse

An evangelical pastor was jailed for 34 years in Britain on Friday, after he was convicted of a catalogue of rape and sexual abuse...

I waited for 45 mins to see her die – Jealous lover confesses

A 24-year-old Daniel Chukwudiebele Okocha, who allegedly gruesomely murdered his girlfriend, Nkechi Vivian Agwor, over suspicion that she was cheating on him, has now...