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South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa faces threat of impeachment over ‘Farmgate’

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a possible impeachment threat over the “Farmgate” scandal. The president has been accused of covering up a $4m...

Adom FM editor Kwasi Agyeman delivers paper on Electoral Integrity and Unconstitutional Politics in Africa in Addis Ababa

Kwasi Agyeman, a PhD candidate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, is among a few authors whose scholarly works were accepted...

Nigeria to abolish English in junior school

The Nigerian government has announced a policy aimed at promoting the teaching of primary school pupils in local languages rather than in English. Education Minister...

Latest news on IMF deal

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated that it is premature to comment on the final form the financing programme for Ghana will take....

SHS headmaster beaten after being caught with student

A South African Secondary School deputy principal at Kgagatlou Secondary in Polokwane, Limpopo received deadly instant justice after getting caught bedding a student at...

Burna Boy’s lookalike in Kenya sparks controversy on social media [Videos]

A man based in Kenya is steadily garnering numbers on social media over his facial looks. Looking like the doppelgänger of Nigerian singer Burna Boy,...

Davido’s son’s drowning: Could tragedy improve Nigeria’s safety for swimmers?

The drowning of the three-year-old son of Afrobeats star Davido in the swimming pool at his home in Lagos last month has thrown a...

Kenya minsters to forgo a month’s salary in drought aid

Kenyan ministers will forgo their salaries for one month in solidarity with people who have been affected by the ongoing drought in parts of...

Far-right killer stabbed in South African prison

Janusz Walus, who was about to be released on parole after serving nearly three decades in a South African jail for killing anti-apartheid leader...

Nigeria police chief sentenced to three months in jail

The high court in Nigeria has sentenced the country’s police chief to three months in prison for disobeying a court order. The ruling followed a...

Namibia edges closer to having first female president

Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is edging closer to becoming the country’s first female president. The 70-year-old has just been elected as vice-president of...

Angola’s ex-president’s daughter charged with embezzlement of public funds

Angola’s Attorney-General Helder Pitta Groz has confirmed that his country has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ daughter, Isabel...

Shocking picture shows three stowaways rescued after spending 11 days on rudder of oil tanker

The Spanish coastguard says it has rescued three migrants who stowed away on the rudder of a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands...

Flight attendant dies mid-air after suffering heart attack

A flight attendant suffered a heart attack midair and died while working on a flight from Bahrain to Paris last week. Gulf Air flight attendant...

Nigeria commences 14 days paternity leave for civil servants

The Federal government has approved the commencement of a 14-day paternity leave for all federal civil servants. The Head of the Civil Service of the...

7 gunmen who stormed hospital in attempt to kill teen arrested

Police in Ecuador have arrested seven gunmen who stormed a hospital in an attempt to kill a teen being treated there. Gang members took...

Father of Ghanaian female singer killed in the US breaks silence

The father of Ghanaian-American gospel musician, Britney Boateng, Ernest Boateng, has spoken out for the first time following the death of his daughter. Speaking in...

Ghanaian plastic surgeon awarded US President’s Volunteer Service Award

A Harvard-trained Ghanaian-American plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Dr Michael K. Obeng, has been awarded the United States President’s Volunteer Service Award by the...

Court blocks Elon Musk from firing top Twitter executive

A court in Ireland has blocked billionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk from firing a top employee of the company. Ireland’s High Court granted an injunction to...

Comoros ex-president sentenced to life in prison for treason

A court in Comoros has handed down a life sentence for high treason to former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi. He was convicted of selling passports...

Ghana wins appeal in Norway case

The Oslo Court of Appeal has in a unanimous decision dismissed an appeal filed by Jongsbru AS, the sellers of a property identified by...

Snake bites sex worker during quickie with client in the bush

There was commotion when a thigh vendor in Zimbabwe’s Zhombe region was bitten by a snake while having an intimate moment with a client...

Squid Game actor O Yeong-su charged with sexual misconduct

Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been charged with sexual misconduct, South Korean judicial officials say. The 78-year-old is accused of touching a woman inappropriately...

All the beautiful pictures, videos from Rita Dominic’s white wedding in England

Nigerian actress, Rita Dominic and founder of Folio Media Group, Dr Fidelis Anosike, have tied the knot in the presence of family and friends...

FIFA World Cup 2022 opening match breaks Showmax Pro’s live-streaming record

The first day of the world's most prestigious football tournament, which streamed live on Showmax Pro courtesy of SuperSport on 20 November 2022, was...

Naked volunteers pose for Tunick artwork on Bondi Beach

Some 2,500 naked volunteers have posed in the early morning light on Sydney’s Bondi Beach for an artwork designed to raise awareness of skin...

Indonesian woman’s body found inside python, say reports

A woman in Indonesia’s Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, according to local reports.  Jahrah, a rubber-tapper reportedly in her 50s,...

South Africa police investigate killing of Zulu king’s ally

Police in South Africa are investigating two murder cases after an ally of King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini and a bodyguard were shot dead. Prince Mbongiseni...

Relationship allowance debated at Namibia’s men’s conference

Namibians have been reacting to a recommendation of the recent National Men’s Conference where what’s called a “girlfriend allowance” – a form of financial...

Rats blamed for eating 500 kilograms of marijuana seized by Indian police

Rats in northern India have been accused of eating hundreds of kilograms of marijuana seized from drug dealers and stored in police warehouses. “Rats are...

Here’s why Morgan Freeman wore gloves in Qatar World Cup opening ceremony

World Cup fans noticed that Morgan Freeman was wearing a glove - but didn't know that the Hollywood actor was the victim of a...

Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima arrested for corruption

Malawi's Vice-President Saulos Chilima has been arrested on allegations that he accepted money in exchange for awarding government contracts, the country's anti-corruption agency says. He...

Boy, 5, rescued from python by dad and elderly grandad

A five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size. Beau Blake...

Kanye West announces 2024 presidential bid

Rapper Kanye West has said he intends to run for US president in 2024, despite facing several scandals over his recent behaviour. The star, who...

Nigerian football club Lobi Stars rule out move for Man United’s Ronaldo

Nigerian side Lobi Stars has ruled out a move for Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo in what appears to be banter, maintaining that the club...

Notorious Kenya policeman to be charged with murder

A Kenyan policeman who gained notoriety after mobile phone footage showed him gunning down two men in 2017 is to be charged with murder. Kenya’s...

Donald Trump sued as New York Adult Survivors Act takes effect

Writer E Jean Carroll has sued Donald Trump in the US state of New York for allegedly raping her in the 1990s. Ms Carroll is...

Woman allegedly stabs husband to death over sexual demands

A 27-year-old woman, Odunayo Olumale, has been arrested in Oyo State, Nigeria for allegedly stabbing her husband, Olamilekan Salaideen, to death over sexual demand.  ...

Here is how much Morgan Freeman is worth now

American actor Morgan Freeman hit global headlines when he headlined the opening ceremony of the Qatar 2022 World Cup on Sunday. The veteran Hollywood...

Newborn baby killed in Russia strike at Ukraine hospital

A newborn baby has been killed in a Russian missile strike on a maternity unit in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, emergency services say. The baby’s...