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Kenya detains Ghanaian accused of ‘sakawa’

The Kenyan authorities have arrested a Ghanaian national who is alleged to have fraudulently obtained $83,000 (£58,490) from a woman in a romance scam. The...

Popular boxer confesses to sleeping with prison counselor to reduce his sentence

Former boxing champion, Mile Tyson, has revealed that he slept with a prison counselor in order to reduce his prison sentence. In the prime of...

Heartbreak as university student takes her own life while family is on holiday

A university student took her own life while her family was away on holiday. Beth George had a history of mental health problems but had...

China scraps two-child policy allowing families to have three children

China has said it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing a...

UK PM Boris Johnson marries for the third time [photos]

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secretly planned wedding at Westminster Cathedral. The marriage took place in a...

Mali suspended from ECOWAS

The leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has, with immediate effect, suspended Mali. This is the outcome of the emergency summit...

Serial rapist sentenced to 1,088 years in prison

Tears and shouts of “we are free, we are no longer prisoners” erupted in the Pretoria High Court room GA on Thursday as serial...

14-month-old Kenyan needs the world’s most expensive drug to stay alive

A 14-month-old Kenyan, Ayah Lundt, was born healthy and hitting all the developmental milestones as the months went by.Her parents noticed things were off...

Lovers find out they’re siblings after dating for 10 months

A man and his girlfriend, who had been dating for 10 months and fell in love, have discovered they are biological siblings after they...

Man drinks wife’s urine for years; this is why

A saying goes that the emotion that can break one’s heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. A man has shared a bitter...

France asks for forgiveness after Rwanda genocide

French President Emmanuel Macron, in a visit to Rwanda, has said France recognised its “responsibility” in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, asking for forgiveness for...

WhatsApp sues Indian govt over privacy rules

WhatsApp has sued the Indian government in a bid to block new rules it says would lead to "mass surveillance" by forcing social media platforms to...

Exclusive photos: Check out current state of River Pra amid galamsey fight

Though the government is committed to put an end to galamsey across the country, the menace seems to be increasing polluting more water bodies...

Letter from Africa: Why Queen of England has a throne in Nigeria

A myth among the Efik people of southern Nigeria is that one of their 19th Century kings was married to Queen Victoria of England. "I...

Soldier allegedly kills man who gave him lift [Photos]

The Akwa Ibom State Police has arrested a soldier for the alleged murder of a businessman in Ikot Abasi Local government area of the...

Blind man has sight partially restored after 40 years

A blind man has had his vision partially restored using optogenetic therapy and engineered goggles — the first successful case of such therapy in...

First man in world to get Covid-19 vaccine dies

The first man in the world to be given the Covid-19 vaccine has died. Tributes have been paid to 81-year-old William Shakespeare who hit global...

Russia threatens to slow down Google for failing to delete prohibited content

Russia has threatened to decelerate Google’s traffic and issued the company with a small fine for failing to remove what it says is unlawful content.  A Russian...

Meet the blind cat with huge eyes

They say it is our uniqueness which makes us special, and this is certainly true in the case of Pico, a blind Norwegian Forest...

Release Mali’s president immediately, UN says

UN chief António Guterres has demanded the immediate release of Mali's President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane, who have been detained by soldiers. They...

TikTok boss quits at age 38 after amassing $44bn fortune from controversial app

One of the billionaire brainboxes behind TikTok is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the hit...

Massive reaction as lady delivers twins 2 years after saying it on Twitter

A Nigerian lady has taken to social media to announce new additions to her family as she delivers twins successfully. In a Twitter post,...

Chief orders Mugabe remains reburied

A traditional chief in Zimbabwe has ordered that the remains of the country's former president Robert Mugabe be exhumed and reburied at a national...

Nigeria names ‘Covid test fugitives’

The authorities in Nigeria have published the names of 90 travellers who arrived in the county in the last two weeks, saying they are...

Indian couple holds mid-air wedding ‘to escape Covid-19 restrictions’

An Indian couple reportedly chartered a plane and held a mid-air wedding with more than 160 guests in an effort to escape coronavirus restrictions. Video...

Police arrest eight men on suspicion of sending fake Royal Mail texts

Eight people have been arrested in series of raids as part of police investigations into scam text messages. Officers from a City of London and...

COVID-19: Father of 5 dies after refusing vaccine

A Michigan family is mourning the loss of their beloved patriarch who passed from COVID-19 after refusing the vaccine. Antwone Rivers, 39, and his wife,...

Black Lives Matter activist shot in London

Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is critically ill after being shot in the head, her party says. The Taking the Initiative Party said...

Social media on fire as twerking robot in heels enters the market [Video]

Technology is indeed the new normal, as a twerking robot is set to replace female strippers in night clubs. Social media has been set on...

Dubai Princess makes first public appearance after 3 years

A photograph posted this week on two public Instagram accounts purports to show Princess Latifa, the daughter of the ruler of Dubai, who has...

China doesn’t condone illegal mining – Ambassador

The Chinese government will not condone the participation of Chinese in illegal small-scale mining in Ghana. Besides, the Chinese government did not approve the procedures...

Davido acquires 2021 Rolls Royce Cullinan worth about $500,000 [Video]

Nigerian singer, Davido, has just acquired a brand new 2021 Rolls Royce Cullinan worth about $500,000, which is equivalent to GH₵2,888,072. The singer took to...

Rastafari group seeks to legalise ‘spiritual’ marijuana use

The Rastafarian Society of Kenya has filed a petition to decriminalise the use of cannabis or bhang for 'spiritual' purposes. They argue that followers and...

Nigerians prefer to identify as Ghanaians abroad – Man in Europe makes shocking revelation [Video]

A Nigerian scholar, who is currently in Czech, has stated that people who leave the country for abroad hate to be identified as a...

Newly wed falls to his death after wife almost caught him having thre3some

Newlywed Brazilian singer MC Kevin fell to his death from a hotel balcony after panicking that his wife was about to catch him having...

Trump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter’s phone and email records

The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have...

A$AP Rocky confirms he is dating Rihanna

US rapper A$AP Rocky has announced that he is in a relationship with singer Rihanna. The rapper described her as "the love of my life" in...

Boko Haram leader, Shekau reportedly killed

The leader of Boko Haram faction, Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS), Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly been killed. Eons Intelligence reports that his death happened...

Three charged over 500 kg of cocaine allegedly imported from Britain

 Australian police on Wednesday said three people were charged as part of an investigation into the alleged importation of half a ton of cocaine...

6 strands of musician’s hair sold for more than $14,000 at auction

Following in the footsteps of his guitar and cardigan, strands of fallen musician Kurt Cobain’s hair were auctioned off. The winning bidder went home with six hairs and all...