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Many trapped in as 7-storey building collapse in Nigeria

An undisclosed number of construction workers have been reportedly trapped under the rubble of a seven-storey building that collapsed at First Avenue, Banana Island,...

Jamie Foxx hospitalised after facing a medical complication

Jamie Foxx is on the mend. The Academy Award winner’s daughter, Corinne Foxx, issued a statement on Instagram Wednesday revealing that the actor is recovering after facing a...

‘Facebook rapist’ repatriated after SA prison escape

A South African rapist and murderer who escaped prison was flown back to his home country in the early hours of Thursday following his arrest...

Ghana first to approve ‘world-changer’ malaria vaccine

Ghana is the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine that has been described as a “world-changer” by the scientists who developed it....

Uber driver caught on camera attempting to rape young drunk female passenger

A new disturbing video shared online shows a male driver trying to rape a young drunk female passenger. But his efforts were thwarted by a...

From Ghana to Germany: Tracking down the owner of a lost wallet

The black, weathered, plastic wallet found on the Italian island of Lampedusa had been carried 3,500km (2,200 miles) from Ghana and then seemingly discarded....

Tanker unloads Russian crude in Ghana after 6-week wait

The tanker Theseus offloaded its cargo of Russian crude into storage tanks at Ghana’s Tema oil refinery over the weekend, after being anchored full...

On the hunt for the businessmen behind a billion-dollar scam

A global scamming network has robbed ordinary investors of more than a billion dollars. BBC Eye identified a shadowy network of businessmen who appear...

Michael Mantey: Ghana-born British soldier who sued for £1.6m after an injury fined £70,000

A former British soldier who attempted to fraudulently claim £1.6m from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) by asserting that he was severely disabled and...

Man given weeks to live survives two years after wife gives him drugs

A dad-of-two who was given just weeks to live following a deadly brain tumour diagnosis survived another two years after his desperate wife gave him illegal drugs. Neil...

‘Facebook rapist’ escape: Two charged with murder

Two men have been charged with murder and arson after being accused of helping notorious convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester escape from a...

Kentucky bank employee shoots dead 5 colleagues

Five people died when an employee opened fire at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, and livestreamed the attack on Instagram, police say. The victims were...

UK red list Ghana, Nigeria for health workers’ recruitment

Ghana is now among the list of 54 countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers in...

Woman married to 3 husbands shares her experience

Nellie, a mother of two has left people astonished after sharing a story of how she is happily married to her three husbands Jimmy,...

Man dies at airport while waiting to board plane

Police in Nairobi have launched investigations after the death of a passenger at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi. The body of the...

Spiritual leader apologises after video asking boy to ‘suck my tongue’

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans’ 87-year-old spiritual leader, apologised on Monday after footage showed him asking a young boy to “suck my tongue” at...

Hundreds tie the knot in Easter mass wedding

More than 800 couples walked down the aisle on Easter Sunday in one of the biggest mass wedding ceremonies in South Africa since the...

Woman, 78, arrested on bank robbery charges

A 78-year-old woman with two past bank robbery convictions was arrested again for a third heist in Missouri, police said. Bonnie Gooch walked into Goppert...

 Parents witness lynching of 35-year-old son after crushing 4 to death

A mob has lynched a 35-year-old man, OlorunFemi Tope, after he reportedly crushed four persons to death in an accident at ljoka area of...

US to push for ‘speedy’ action on debt relief for Ghana

The United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push for immediate action on requests by Ghana and Zambia for restructuring their sovereign debts during...

Bride on the run after firing gun at wedding

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are on the lookout for a woman who fired a gun at her wedding. A video...

‘Facebook rapist’ who faked death arrested in Tanzania

A rapist and murderer who escaped a South African prison by faking his own death has been arrested in Tanzania. Thabo Bester was at large...

Pope Francis: Easter Mass brings relief to public after pontiff’s illness

In the early hours on a stunning Easter morning in Vatican City, thousands of people from around the world waited to be let into...

UK wife dumped by Ghanaian husband after taking £30k loan for him

A UK-based woman is living in regret after taking a huge loan for her husband only to get dumped. The wife, Mercy on Adom...

Groom killed after bride’s ex gifted them sound system rigged with explosives

Police in India have arrested a man after he allegedly gifted a music system rigged with explosives, which killed the new husband of his ex-lover, according...

Pilot forced to make emergency landing after spotting snake on plane

A routine flight turned into a nightmare for pilot Rudolf Erasmus when he discovered a highly venomous Cape cobra on board. Erasmus, who obtained...

Pastor flees with worshippers 52 phones, money during crusade

A pastor, Dr. Owen Abraham, has allegedly absconded with 52 phones, money and other valuables of worshippers that attended a crusade he organised at...

I paid outrageous amount to kidnappers for my father’s release – Mikel Obi

Former Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel, has explained that in 2018, he spent a “crazy amount of money” to gain the release of...

Chained woman case: 6 jailed in trafficking case that horrified China

A Chinese court has jailed six people in a high-profile human trafficking case of a woman found chained in a remote village last year. The...

Man cries out in agony as he is nailed to cross in real crucifixion on Good Friday

Eight people were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ's suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to the...

Husband catches wife poisoning his tea

A wife was allegedly caught poisoning her husband's tea with drain cleaner after he installed hidden cameras in the kitchen to catch her. Dermatologist Yue 'Emily' Yu,...

Worshippers in tears as Virgin Mary figure bursts into flames during Easter parade

Easter worshippers were left in floods of tears and two people were injured when a statue of the Virgin Mary burst into flames during...

Guinea seizes 1.5 tonnes of cocaine

Authorities in Guinea have seized 1.5 tonnes of cocaine from a ship flying the Sierra Leone flag. The crew included four Sierra Leoneans, three Ghanaians...

54-year-old dies after having bum lift and tummy tuck

A British grandmother died after travelling to Turkey to undergo a tummy tuck and a Brazilian Bum Lift procedure. Carol Keenan, 54, died in April last year...

18-year-old dies a week after beating cancer

A brave teenager tragically died a week after beating cancer. Molly Hinchliffe fell ill with an infection due to her immune system being low after she completed chemotherapy. The...

Majid Michel breaks silence on Spike Lee, Ghana film industry brouhaha

Ghanaian actor, Majid Michel has finally reacted to claims by American filmmaker, Spike Lee that no Ghanaian movie director or actor approached him for...

The barefoot nun who became Ethiopia’s ‘piano queen’

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died this week at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being...

Man stabs elder brother to death over shirt and trouser

A 20-year-old man, Halifa Hamza, has stabbed his elder brother, Usman Hamza, to death with a pair of scissors in Kurna of Kano State,...

Cock loses court battle over noise pollution

A Nigerian court has ordered the slaughter of a rooster on Friday after a noise pollution complaint by neighbours, local media report. The court in...

Zimbabwe to criminalise foreign recruitment of medics

Zimbabwe plans to enact a law criminalising the recruitment of its health personnel by other countries, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has said. Mr Chiwenga, who...