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Police on manhunt for 4 women who abducted, raped man

A leather factory worker in his early twenties says four females bundled him inside a vehicle as he was walking in the city of...

Elon Musk rejects concerns over beds at Twitter HQ

Elon Musk has criticised San Francisco Mayor London Breed over an investigation into offices turned into bedrooms at Twitter’s headquarters. The city’s Department of Building...

Mozambique’s ex-president’s son jailed 12 years for corruption

A Mozambican court on Wednesday sentenced the son of Mozambique’s ex-president Armando Guebuza to 12 years in jail. This is following a vast corruption scandal...

Boxer slumps and dies inside ring after heavy punch

A boxer representing Imo State at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Nigeria has died in the boxing ring. Chukwuemeka Igboanugo slumped after the opponent...

CSA issues public alert on WhatsApp-based cybercrime

The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) says it has observed a worrying trend of increased reports of unauthorised access and online scams perpetrated through the...

Mother-of-five going blind after tattooing her eyeball purple

A mum of five brushed off her daughter’s advice to not get her eyeballs tattooed due to potential blindness — and now, she’s losing...

Black Sherif is the voice of African youth – Akon

More global legends are spotting the talent in the Ghanaian superstar Black Sherif. American musician, Akon is the latest to join the tall list of...

Tanzania cancels independence celebration, diverts funds to build dormitories for kids

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories...

Nigeria imposes restrictions on cash withdrawals

Nigeria’s central bank has limited weekly over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals and corporates to 100,000 naira ($225; £186) and 500,000 naira ($1,125; £928) respectively. This...

Indonesia’s new sex laws and what they could mean for tourism

Tourism operators in Indonesia are still trying to recover from the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the country’s parliament has passed new...

People envy my wealth – Nigerian presidential hopeful Tinubu

It’s very rare for Nigerian presidential hopeful Bola Ahmed Tinubu to talk directly to the media. At a recent much-publicised event in London, questions from...

Spain’s former King Juan Carlos wins partial immunity in ex-lover case

Ex-Spanish King Juan Carlos has won an appeal to block part of a case brought against him in the UK by his ex-lover. Businesswoman Corinna...

No more airplane mode – EU to allow calls on flights

Airline passengers in the European Union (EU) will soon be able to use their phones to full effect in the sky. The European Commission...

Indonesia: Parliament creates new law banning sex before marriage

Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten...

Police hunt MPs who attacked female colleague in parliament

Police in Senegal are searching for two opposition lawmakers who attacked a female MP during a brawl in parliament last week.  Massata Samb slapped...

Ugandan doctors kneel to appeal to President to contest for the 7th time

Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) were seen kneeling before President Yoweri Museveni to beg that he contests for the country’s presidency in...

Ghana to earn £‎1,000 per nurse in trade with UK – Health Minister

The Government of Ghana has announced a bilateral agreement with the British Government to send trained nurses to the United Kingdom (UK) in exchange...

Tragedy as 14 church members drown during baptism

Fourteen Johane Masowe churchgoers have been confirmed dead after they drowned in a river during a baptism ceremony on Saturday evening. Thirty-three members of the...

Addis Ababa: Adom FM Editor Kwasi Agyeman gets invitation to be member of APRM Communications Network

Shortly after his presentation at the African Union - African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, David Kwasi Agyeman, Adom FM...

Ukraine war: Oil prices rise as cap on Russian crude looms

Oil prices have risen after major producers agreed to continue to cut output and the G7 and its allies said they will cap the...

Sad: Baby drowns in bucket of water

A year-old boy has died after falling into a bucket of water in Nnewi, Anambra state of Nigeria. The child's parents reportedly left him...

Two including Imam shot in mosque attack

Bandits have attacked a mosque in Maigamji village in Katsina State of Nigeria. An eyewitness, Alhaji Lawal Maigamji, said the bandits stormed the mosque during...

Iran to disband morality police amid ongoing protests

Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country’s attorney general says. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri’s comments,...

Fugitive arrested after commenting on ‘most wanted’ post made by police

A Georgia man assisted law enforcement in his arrest after he commented on the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page. The sheriff’s department, located east...

Police arrest man in fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff

Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff. The 28-year-old Grammy-nominated musician was shot...

Charges dropped over student’s tweet about first lady

Charges have been dropped against a Nigerian student who was arrested over a tweet in which he allegedly accused the first lady of misusing...

Man found dead inside well after drinking with friends

A man, identified as Panshak Simon, has been found dead inside a well in Dashem Bakin Kogi village in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area...

Body of girl, 5, discovered in concrete used as a bedside table

A mum has been arrested after the body of her daughter was found set in concrete and used as a bedside table in her San Andrés,...

Dangote Cement factory workers kidnapped

Armed men affiliated with Ethiopia’s rebel Oromo Liberation Army have been blamed for kidnapping more than a dozen staff working for the Dangote Cement...

Elon Musk produces brain chip that enables disabled patients to move, see and communicate

Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expects a wireless brain chip developed by his company Neuralink to begin human clinical trials in six months,...

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...