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24-year-old sentenced to death by hanging for stealing cash and phones

Justice Oluwatoyin Abodunde of an Ado Ekiti High court has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Sola Jegede, to death for stealing phones and cash. According to...

2-year-old found dead 58 years ago has been identified

Roy Rogers was fishing in Keene Creek Reservoir near Ashland, Oregon on the night of July 11, 1963, when he found something wrapped in...

Japanese serial killer loses death sentence appeal

A convicted serial killer in Japan, dubbed the Black Widow, has lost her final appeal to avoid execution. Chisako Kakehi, 74, killed three of her...

South Africa’s ex-President, Jacob Zuma sentenced

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months by the highest court in the country. This came after the Constitutional Court...

Jubilation as police gun down notorious criminal

There was jubilation in Amukpe area of Sapele, Delta State, following the killing of a notorious criminal known as Fowlboy. The deadly armed robber met...

Pope Francis meets Spider-Man

Pope Francis met Spider-Man at a general papal audience in Vatican City on Wednesday. Mattia Villardita, the 28-year-old who dressed up as Peter Parker’s superhero...

TB Joshua’s wife to lead SCOAN – Reports

The wife of the late founder and leader of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), TB Joshua, Evelyn Joshua, will succeed his late...

Cardi B is pregnant again!

Cardi B is Pregnant! The rapper revealed she's expecting her second child during BET Awards performance. The rapper revealed the news while performing with her...

George Floyd’s Death: Former police officer sentenced!

The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and...

COVID-19: Checkout countries on UK’s red list

Uganda will be added to the UK’s travel “red list” of high-risk Covid-19 countries from 30 June. This means travellers from Uganda will not be...

Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance

The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which include new recommendations that companies permit their staff to opt to work...

I’m underperforming – Man with four wives;10 children cries

Popular South African polygamist, Musa Mseleku has said that he feels he is underperforming even though he has 10 children from four wives.   Speaking in an...

Fake Covid-19 certificates hit airlines

Test results, often required to fly across borders, can be easily manipulated. Airlines are battling a scourge of passengers traveling with falsified Covid-19 health...

COVID-19: Queen Elizabeth loses £10m of income

The Queen has been left with a £10million shortfall in her finances as a result of the pandemic. Buckingham Palace revealed yesterday that it had...

5 people hospitalised after pedestrian bridge collapses onto DC highway (Photos)

Five people have been hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries after a pedestrian bridge that was in "poor condition" collapsed onto a busy Washington, D.C., highway.  The...

John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell

Anti-virus software entrepreneur, John McAfee, has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to...

South African President plead for his missing iPad on live TV

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa had a moment of panic after his iPad mysteriously vanished during a press conference on Tuesday, June 22, leaving...

Man nabbed for attempting to smuggle guns from Turkey to Ghana

Police in Istanbul have announced the arrest of a Ghanaian national for attempting to smuggle 17 handguns into Ghana from Turkey. Istanbul Police in a...

ECOWAS Court stops Nigeria from prosecuting people using Twitter

The Nigerian government has been ordered by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja not to prosecute people for using Twitter while it considers a...

Presenter demands salary on live TV [Video]

A video making rounds online has shown moment a Zambian TV news presenter went off script and demanded his salary and that of his colleagues during...

Woman missing for 11 years found secretly living in neighbor’s house

An Indian woman who had left her family home in 2010 and hadn’t been seen since was recently found living just 500 meters from...

The Nigerian priest saving Igbo deities from the bonfires

While some Pentecostal preachers in eastern Nigeria set fire to statues and other ancient artifacts that they regard as symbols of idolatry, one Catholic...

South African woman’s claim of giving birth to 10 babies a hoax

The family of a South African man whose girlfriend reportedly gave birth to 10 babies last week concluded in a statement released Tuesday that...

Laurent Gbagbo, 76, files for divorce

Former President of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, has filed for divorce from his wife of three decades at the age of 76, his lawyer...

COVID-19: Philippines threaten to jail those who refuse vaccine

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, frustrated by the slow pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in his country, threatened people who refuse to get inoculated with jail...

Gaddafi’s ‘Flying Palace’ returns home after nearly a decade

A private plane belonging to Libya’s late leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has landed in the capital Tripoli after nearly a decade in France for safekeeping...

AG Godfred Dame, Ghanaian state attorneys cited for sleeping on the job in Us$170 million case

The Commercial Court in London has refused to allow Ghana to bring a belated challenge to an UNCITRAL award worth over US$134 million in...

Chile to begin drafting new constitution next month

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has said the Assembly will hold its first session on July 4, as the South American country moves towards replacing...

Man arrested for hacking cameras and obtaining 1,000 images of n*de kids

A British man has been arrested in Benidorm on suspicion of hacking the home security cameras of more than 70 families around the world...

18-year-old woman dies during s3x on wedding night

An 18-year-old newlywed bride reportedly died on her wedding night whilst having sex with her husband. The Sun reported that the lady, who was consummating her...

Sad news hits Joe Biden

The Bidens announced Saturday that Champ, their "beloved" German Shepherd who had been with their family since 2008, has died. Champ passed away at the Biden...

I don’t want her to suffer – Man says after infecting daughter with HIV

A 45-year-old man has been handed a life sentence after being arrested and arraigned for defiling his 15-year-old daughter and infecting her with HIV.  The convict, who...

Even more to watch on Showmax between Euro 2020 matches

These are the best sports shows and documentaries on Showmax to keep you entertained during UEFA Euro 2020.  Football fans, your time is now! After...

Stay true to your music roots to win Grammys – Top US artiste tells Ghanaian musicians [Video]

Grammy-nominated artiste, Stokely Williams, has urged Ghanaian musicians to stay true to their music roots. According to the USA music star, who arrived in...

Ivory Coast’s ex-President Gbagbo returns home after ICC acquittal

Former Ivory Coast President, Laurent Gbagbo, has returned home, 10 years after he was taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of...

Tributes pour in as Zambia’s founding president passes on

More tributes have been coming in for Zambian founding president Kenneth Kaunda, who died on Thursday at 97. Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi described the late...

Saudi man executed for crimes committed as a minor

Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences that rights groups say he committed while aged 17, despite the kingdom’s assurance that it had...

Nigeria blames Twitter boss for #EndSars losses

Nigeria’s government holds Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey indirectly liable for the losses the country suffered during the EndSars protest, the country’s Information...

Web designer names his son HTML

A Facebook post announcing the birth of a newborn in the Philippines has gone viral due to the child's unique name.  Hypertext Mark-up Language Rayo...

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour diagnosed with ovarian cancer

CNN's chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour told viewers Monday that she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. "I've had successful major surgery to remove it, and I'm...