Ms Anifat Saheed, a female pilgrim who participated in the 2019 Hajj
reportedly absconded after the Islamic spiritual exercise in Jeddah.
Chairman of the Muslim...
A Gambian beauty queen has accused the country's former president, Yahya Jammeh, of raping her because she refused to marry him.
Giving evidence to the...
Renowned cancer specialist, Professor Aderemi Tajudeen Ajekigbe, has died four months after he found that he had stage four prostate cancer, which is often...
Pastor Enoch Adeboye is set to hold special prayers for lecturers and students caught in the Sex-for-Grades scandal.
As concerns mount over Sex-for-Grades...
The Anambra State Police command
has arrested a Pastor identified simply as Chukwuma, for raping a teenage
student he reportedly lured on the pretence of conducting...
Authorities in Tanzania have arrested four Chinese contractors because of slow progress in a state-funded project in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam.
The...
Ibeh Augustine Chukwuma, a Brazil-based Nigerian man has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after arriving the Nnamdi Azikiwe...
A Nigerian husband and his Canadian wife of Ghanaian origin are fighting a deportation order scheduled for next week.
Temitope Issac Kayode came to Canada several...
Ibrahim Adamu, a 35 -year-old man, on Thursday dragged both his parents-in-law before the Magajin Gari Shari’a Court in Kaduna State, accusing them of...
A man who died a year ago was mistakenly reappointed to serve on the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), the government says.
Robert Kochalle died...
Police discovered more than 70 young men and boys in shackles when they raided a private Islamic school in northern Nigeria.
Hundreds have been freed...
Doctors have finally found a way to stop Mariam Nabatanzi, said to be the world's most fertile woman from having more kids.
The 36-year-old Ugandan woman...
Five people have been arrested in Uganda after they were found hiding their children to avoid the measles, rubella and polio mass vaccination programme.
The...
Members of the Otunba Gani Adams-led Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), on Tuesday, October 15th arrested a suspected kidnapper in Ibadan, the Oyo State...
Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has proved he’s not only amazing on the pitch but also marvelous at fathering his five-year-old daughter, Makka.
He celebrated her...
First lady, Aisha Buhari, has finally reacted to reports making rounds that President Buhari is getting married.
Aisha on Sunday said it was not her...
The Niger state police command has arrested and paraded a suspected rapist identified as Mizanbilu Yusuf, for defiling si minors in the state.Â
Yusuf, 18,...
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has lost a bid to avoid prosecution for corruption charges.
The case has been hanging over Mr Zuma’s head...
Kelechi Nwigbo, a Germany-returnee, has allegedly been killed by lightning in his hotel room behind Eke Market, Afikpo, Ebonyi state.He had checked into...
The University of Lagos, Akoka, has suspended another lecturer, Dr Samuel Oladipo, of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, after he...
West African politicians and film stars are among thousands calling for action following a BBC report into sexual harassment at top universities.
A year-long investigation...
Political Science lecturer, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has refuted claims that he sleeps with vulnerable girls in exchange for grades in the University of Ghana.
Speaking...
Following the revelation in the ‘Sex for Grade’ documentary released by BBC Africa Eye, the University of Lagos has shut-down the ‘Cold Room’, where...
An American preacher, Gregg Schoof who was arrested on Monday in Rwanda for holding an "illegal meeting with journalists" has been deported, New Times...
Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic,...
