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COVID-19: Queen Elizabeth loses £10m of income

The Queen has been left with a £10million shortfall in her finances as a result of the pandemic. Buckingham Palace revealed yesterday that it had...

Student allegedly suspended for not welcoming President Buhari

A student of College of Nursing and Midwifery has been allegedly suspended for not welcoming President Muhammadu Buhari during his visit to Borno state.  The...

Mind ‘N’ Health Foundation Ghana commemorates International Widows Day

On Wednesday, June 23, the world marked International Widows' Day on the theme 'Invisible Women, Invisible Problems.' Widow's Day is an awareness day observed across...

Car snatchers arrested after being involved in an accident

Some robbers, who were escaping with a stolen car, have been arrested after being involved in a road crash at Ode Remo, Ogun State.The...

5 people hospitalised after pedestrian bridge collapses onto DC highway (Photos)

Five people have been hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries after a pedestrian bridge that was in "poor condition" collapsed onto a busy Washington, D.C., highway.  The...

John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell

Anti-virus software entrepreneur, John McAfee, has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to...

South African President plead for his missing iPad on live TV

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa had a moment of panic after his iPad mysteriously vanished during a press conference on Tuesday, June 22, leaving...

Man nabbed for attempting to smuggle guns from Turkey to Ghana

Police in Istanbul have announced the arrest of a Ghanaian national for attempting to smuggle 17 handguns into Ghana from Turkey. Istanbul Police in a...

Former Mauritania President jailed!

Mauritania’s former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has been jailed after a judge in charge of a corruption probe ordered his incarceration. The ex-leader says...

7-year-old boy escapes after suspected ritualist chops off his hand

A seven-year-old boy has been amputated by suspected ritualist who kidnapped him along with two other colleagues. The little boy was attacked in Pategi town, Pategi...

Woman found dead in hotel room

An unidentified woman, who lodged a hotel in Kwara, Nigeria, has been found dead. According to a statement released by the spokesperson of the state...

ECOWAS Court stops Nigeria from prosecuting people using Twitter

The Nigerian government has been ordered by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja not to prosecute people for using Twitter while it considers a...

Presenter demands salary on live TV [Video]

A video making rounds online has shown moment a Zambian TV news presenter went off script and demanded his salary and that of his colleagues during...

South African President charges on live TV after his iPad was stolen [Watch]

South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, had a moment of panic after his iPad mysteriously vanished during a press conference on Tuesday, leaving him so...

Woman missing for 11 years found secretly living in neighbor’s house

An Indian woman who had left her family home in 2010 and hadn’t been seen since was recently found living just 500 meters from...

The Nigerian priest saving Igbo deities from the bonfires

While some Pentecostal preachers in eastern Nigeria set fire to statues and other ancient artifacts that they regard as symbols of idolatry, one Catholic...

South African woman’s claim of giving birth to 10 babies a hoax

The family of a South African man whose girlfriend reportedly gave birth to 10 babies last week concluded in a statement released Tuesday that...

Laurent Gbagbo, 76, files for divorce

Former President of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, has filed for divorce from his wife of three decades at the age of 76, his lawyer...

COVID-19: Philippines threaten to jail those who refuse vaccine

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, frustrated by the slow pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in his country, threatened people who refuse to get inoculated with jail...

Gaddafi’s ‘Flying Palace’ returns home after nearly a decade

A private plane belonging to Libya’s late leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has landed in the capital Tripoli after nearly a decade in France for safekeeping...

Man drops dead after consuming full bottle of gin during competition [Video]

A yet-to-be-identified man dropped dead after consuming full bottles of gin during a drinking competition. In videos uploaded on social media, the 70-year-old man is...

AG Godfred Dame, Ghanaian state attorneys cited for sleeping on the job in Us$170 million case

The Commercial Court in London has refused to allow Ghana to bring a belated challenge to an UNCITRAL award worth over US$134 million in...

Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto selected chairman of Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire cocoa initiative

Ghana’s Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has been elected the first Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Ghana-Côte d’Ivoire...

Akufo-Addo to serve 2nd term as ECOWAS chair

President Nana Akufo-Addo has been re-elected as Chairman by the Authority of Heads of States and Government of the Economic Community of West African...

Chile to begin drafting new constitution next month

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has said the Assembly will hold its first session on July 4, as the South American country moves towards replacing...

Mother parades ‘meat’ for sale only for people to find out it’s her newborn baby [Video+Photo]

It was a shocking sight to behold after a 32-year-old mother was spotted carrying a newborn baby in a basket in an attempt to...

Man arrested for hacking cameras and obtaining 1,000 images of n*de kids

A British man has been arrested in Benidorm on suspicion of hacking the home security cameras of more than 70 families around the world...

18-year-old woman dies during s3x on wedding night

An 18-year-old newlywed bride reportedly died on her wedding night whilst having sex with her husband. The Sun reported that the lady, who was consummating her...

Nigeria: Trigger-happy police inspector allegedly kills 5; injures 4

A trigger-happy policeman attached to RC Lotto Company at Golf Estate, GRA Enugu metropolis allegedly shot five persons dead on Sunday, June 20, 2021. The...

7-year-old exposes grandma who sells her out as s3x slave

A grandmother, who has been selling her granddaughter out as a sex slave, has been apprehended, alongside men who sexually abuse the minor. A group...

Missing 16-year-old schoolgirl busted for staging her kidnap

A schoolgirl, who masterminded her own kidnap after conspiring with her boyfriend, has been busted.  The suspect, Suluka Abimbola and her boyfriend Oluwaseun Daniel Olajide,...

Sad news hits Joe Biden

The Bidens announced Saturday that Champ, their "beloved" German Shepherd who had been with their family since 2008, has died. Champ passed away at the Biden...

Member States of ECOWAS announce timelines for ECO currency implementation

Member States of the Economic Committee of West African States, (ECOWAS) have fixed 2027 for full implementation of a single currency, ECO. The ECO,...

Full text: Akufo-Addo’s speech at opening of 59 Ordinary Session of ECOWAS

I welcome Your Excellencies to your second home, Accra, Ghana’s capital, for the 59th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government...

I don’t want her to suffer – Man says after infecting daughter with HIV

A 45-year-old man has been handed a life sentence after being arrested and arraigned for defiling his 15-year-old daughter and infecting her with HIV.  The convict, who...

Even more to watch on Showmax between Euro 2020 matches

These are the best sports shows and documentaries on Showmax to keep you entertained during UEFA Euro 2020.  Football fans, your time is now! After...

Stay true to your music roots to win Grammys – Top US artiste tells Ghanaian musicians [Video]

Grammy-nominated artiste, Stokely Williams, has urged Ghanaian musicians to stay true to their music roots. According to the USA music star, who arrived in...

Ivory Coast’s ex-President Gbagbo returns home after ICC acquittal

Former Ivory Coast President, Laurent Gbagbo, has returned home, 10 years after he was taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of...

65-year-old man arrested for allegedly raping step-mother

A 65-year-old man, identified as Durodola Kayode Ogundele, of Ayetoro-Ekiti, has reportedly been arrested by the police at Ekiti for forcing himself on his...

Moment Asian man rained praises on Sarkodie in London [Video]

Rapper Sarkodie is still receiving accolades for his Ghanaian music despite being far away in London. The Sarknation president posted a video where praises were...