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Miami helicopter crash: Police share footage showing swimmers metres away from site

Miami Beach Police have shared footage of a helicopter crashing metres away from bathers on South Beach. Eyewitness video showed people wading towards the helicopter...

Kelvyn Boy reacts as Wizkid, King Promise enjoy his ‘Down Flat’ song [Video]

Kelvyn Boy is obviously the man of the moment as he is presently having one of the biggest jams in the country and beyond. In...

Black Sherif’s ‘Second Sermon’ gets featured at NBA All-Stars Playoffs

Rapper Black Sherif's "Second Sermon" remix tune which features Nigeria's Grammy-Award winner, Burna Boy, got featured at the 2022 NBA All-Stars Playoffs over the...

Death has forgotten me – Woman who witnessed First World War cries

"I want to die because I am tired and weak. Others are working all I do is sleep the whole day, yet I want...

Nigeria seizes tonnes of ‘wele’ on sale as food

Nigerian authorities say they have seized 120 tonnes of imported animal hides and skins in Lagos city. They were intercepted on suspicion that they...

2 dead as robbers turn against each other during operation

A robbery operation took a tragic turn as the robbers disagreed and turned against each other, leaving two dead at a popular Resort in...

Queen Elizabeth II tests positive for Covid-19

Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for Covid-19, Buckingham Palace has said. The palace said the monarch is experiencing mild “cold-like symptoms” but expects to...

No vote registration no sex: Zim women launch campaign ahead of election

Zimbabwean women have come up with a novel campaign to force men to register to vote: a sex boycott. Cora Ndebele, 39, and her team...

One dead, 2 pupils hospitalised after consuming poisoned snack classmate gave them

A grade 4 pupil has died and two others have been hospitalized after consuming food laced with poison at a school in Harare. The victims...

Double tragedy: Woman dies in freak accident on her way to bury husband

A family has been left traumatized and searching for answers following a horrible tragedy which befell a hearse transporting a body for burial....

Ukraine conflict: Biden says he is convinced Putin has decided to invade

US President Joe Biden has said he is convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch an invasion of Ukraine, and that an...

6 African nations to get mRNA vaccine technology

The World Health Organization has announced that six African countries will be given the revolutionary mRNA technology to set up their own vaccine production...

US woman becomes first female to be cured of HIV

A US patient is believed to be the third person in the world, and first woman, to be cured of HIV. The patient was being...

Samuel Eto’o declared father of 22-year-old woman

Retired footballer Samuel Eto’o has been declared as the biological father of a 22-year-old woman in Madrid. The former striker has never acknowledged that he...

Politician expelled from ruling party for wearing yellow suit

Zimbabwean politician, Eric Knigh, has been expelled from the ruling party for posting a photo on Facebook which saw him wearing a yellow suit. In...

Nduom wins again as Birim loses appeal in US

A District Judge of the United States Federal Court in Chicago, Illinois, Thomas M. Durkin, has dismissed an appeal filed by Birim Group against...

102-year-old woman declares intention to run for Nigerian Presidency

A 102-year-old woman, identified as Mrs Nonye Josephine Ezeanyaeche, has declared her intention to join the 2023 presidential race in Nigeria. Ezeanyaeche said if the...

Islamic leader dies aged 130; leaves behind 476 descendants

The Chief Imam of Kafanchan Central Mosque, Alhaji Sheikh Adam Tahir, has died at the age of 130 years after an illness. Deputy Chief Imam...

‘I’ve spent over £73k on plastic surgery and nearly died – but I want more’

A self-proclaimed "plastic surgery fanatic" who has spent over £73,000 ($100,000) on surgeries to date and once nearly died on the operating table has...

The story of Amha Selassie, who is regarded as the last emperor of Ethiopia

Historians say he was proclaimed ruler of Ethiopia three times. The first was in 1960, the second in 1975, and the third in 1989...

Google moves to make Android apps more private

Google’s plan to limit data tracking on its Chrome browser has been extended to cover apps on its Android-based smartphones. Its so-called Privacy Sandbox project...

Woman, 53, dies after suspected botched butt enlargement surgery

A Connecticut woman has died after she was dumped outside a Bronx hospital, unconscious and partially naked, after she reportedly received botched butt injections. Maxine Messam, of...

Heads of public institutions sacked in Akufo-Addo’s tenure

The Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Yaw Kwakwa, was dismissed from his job. Journalists broke his dismissal to him while...

Mourners flee after relative of the deceased dropped beehive at funeral service

A dramatic scene was recorded at a burial ceremony in Gatanga, Kenya as mourners flee for their lives after a relative of the deceased dropped...

Migrants sew mouths shut in quest for Mexico passage to US border

A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico's southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country's immigration authority to...

Outrage as female Minister advises husbands to beat their ‘stubborn’ wives ‘gently’

A Malaysian female minister has sparked outrage after she advised husbands to beat their 'stubborn' wives 'gently' to discipline them for 'unruly' behaviour. Siti Zailah...

Algeria to give monthly pay to unemployed people

Algeria’s president says the government will introduce unemployment benefits for young adults as the country struggles with high rates of joblessness. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told...

Drama as wife, 4 side chicks shock husband with arranged lunch

A 36-year-old Ugandan man is undergoing medical examination after collapsing at a restaurant where he was being treated for lunch. Kelvin Waweru got the shock...

Kenya minister wants gay students to be day scholars

Kenya’s education minister says gay students infringing on the rights of other learners should not be allowed to attend boarding schools. Prof George Magoha advised...

Woman gives birth to baby girl inside courtroom

A Harare woman is reported to have given birth to a healthy bouncing baby girl at Harare Magistrate Court. According to Zimmorningpost, 39-year-old Patience Mubaiwa went...

Man kills neighbour over bucket of water

A 29-year-old tailor, Gado Yahaya, is in court for allegedly killing his neighbour during an argument over a bucket of water. The incident occurred at Rigasa...

‘I make £10K selling my breast milk to bodybuilders – it’s like liquid gold’

A woman has revealed how she made thousands after having her first child - as she sold her breast milk to bodybuilders. TikTok star Mila De'brito, @debrito_bunch, uploaded a video...

Liberia marks 200-year anniversary amid economic challenges

Year-long celebrations have begun in Liberia to commemorate the time when freed slaves from the US first arrived there two centuries ago. They then went...

Priest quits over baptism rules

A Catholic priest has resigned after the Vatican ruled he bungled thousands of baptisms over 25 years as he used the wrong words. Between 1995 and 2021,...

Naomi Campbell, 51, poses with first born on British Vogue cover

Naomi Campbell’s baby has made her magazine debut. The supermodel, 51, posed on the March cover of British Vogue, holding the baby girl she secretly welcomed in May...

Journalist rents a billboard to appreciate her husband on Valentine’s Day

Tanzanian media personality, Zamaradi Mketema, started off an online conversation after putting up a huge billboard with her husband’s face, as one of her Valentine’s Day...

Man finds love with rich woman with a growth disorder [Photos]

A South African couple is going viral on Facebook after the two met on a platform. Sharon Ndlovu, 34, the daughter of Property Investor millionaire,...

Man sleeping with his own sister kills her after she had sex with another man

A Texas man, who had been sleeping with his own sister, beat her to death with a baseball bat after he found out she...

Nursery teacher flogs 19-month-old to death for playing with water

A school teacher has been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly flogging a 19-month-old pupil to death, police say. The teacher at a nursery and primary...

Singer Muno drops visuals for ‘Killer Vibe’ off his latest EP

Nigerian singer and songwriter Oviemuno Oriero, popularly known as Muno, has dropped heartening visuals for his ‘Killer Vibe’ song off his “4 + 1”...