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Man kills daughter, marches around town with chopped head

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have arrested a man suspected of beheading his daughter. Sarvesh Kumar was arrested as he walks...

‘Floating ship’ photographed off the coast of England [Photos]

Images of what appears to be a hovering ship have been captured as the result of a rare optical illusion off the coast of...

Covid: Italy ‘blocks’ vaccine shipment to Australia

The Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia. The decision affects 250,000 doses of the vaccine produced at an...

Yaw Tog’s ‘Sore’ remix features UK’s Stormzy and Kwesi Arthur [Watch]

Fast-rising Ghanaian drill musician, Yaw Tog, has finally released the remix of his hit song, ‘Sore’. The much-anticipated remix comes along with features from United...

WhatsApp introduces voice, video calls on desktop app

Facebook-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp, on Thursday, introduced voice and video calling features on its app’s desktop. WhatsApp, in a statement, said: “We’re excited to announce...

Man dances on frozen lake after receiving vaccine

A Canadian man went viral after he celebrated getting his coronavirus vaccine by dancing on a frozen lake. Gurdeep Pandher shared his joy in receiving the vaccine...

Fighting Covid-19: Police break up ‘fake vaccine network’

Police in China and South Africa have seized thousands of doses of counterfeit Covid-19 vaccine and made dozens of arrests, Interpol says. In China, police...

Young doctor leaves heartbreaking gifts to son before dying from brain tumour

A doctor left his three-year-old son as a heartbreaking final gift before he died from a brain tumour. Aria Nikjooy, a paediatrician from Manchester, wrote...

2.3m Nigerians registered for COVID-19 vaccination

The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that 2.3m Nigerians registered for COVID-19 vaccination in less than 24 hours. This was after the state...

Sister of WTO boss named ‘Physician of the Year’ in US

As the world celebrates the appointment of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), her sister, Dr Njide...

Homos3xuality is a mental disorder – Chinese court rules

A court in China has agreed with a textbook’s description of homosexuality as a mental disorder, upholding a ruling by a lower court. The decision...

Bunny Wailer: Reggae legend who found fame with Bob Marley dies, aged 73

One of reggae’s most important voices, Bunny Wailer, has died at the age of 73. The musician, from Kingston, Jamaica, was a founding member of...

Woman arrested for setting 8-year-old daughter’s private part on fire

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested one Aisha Abdullahi Gaide for child molestation and attempted homicide.  Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil,...

Nurses face increasing assault from families of coronavirus victims

Nurses at the Federal Medical Centre in the Southwestern city of Owo, Nigeria stopped treating patients after two nurses were badly beaten early last...

Presidential candidate ‘storms’ court with fetish priest during trial [Photos]

Revolution Now convener and Sahara Reporters founder, Omoyele Sowore, on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, stormed the Abuja Magistrate Court in the company of a...

Covax to send 200m doses to 142 nations by May – WHO

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said more than 200 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to...

‘Big boys’ who flaunt their wealth on social media caught in robbery operation [Video]

Two men were caught engaging in a robbery operation and it turned out they are young men who have been sharing videos of themselves...

Nigeria school abduction: Hundreds of girls released by gunmen

A group of nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped from a school in north-western Nigeria last week have been released, a local official says. The...

Golden Globes 2021: List of winners and nominees

The best film and TV shows of the past year were celebrated at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. Here is the full list of winners: Best motion...

Covid: Japan asks China to stop anal swab tests on its citizens

Japan has asked China to stop taking anal swab tests for Covid-19 on its citizens when they enter the country. Some have complained that the...

Drama as church evicts family as son donates house as seed

A family of eight has been rendered homeless after a man donated the family house as seed for God. The family has come out to...

Cattle traders attacked, 200 cows stolen

About 200 cows were stolen when armed bandits attacked a group of cattle traders along the Pibor-Juba road at the outskirts of Juba County,...

Akufo- Addo wins WHO boss’ heart

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has commended President Nana Akufo-Addo for receiving the covid-19 vaccine. To Dr...

Man kills wife for taking family planning pills without his consent

Police in Amuru District in Northern Uganda have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly killing his wife after she reportedly took family planning pills...

Nigeria to receive about 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

The Federal government has announced that Nigeria is scheduled to take delivery of 3.92 million doses of the COVID19 vaccine on Tuesday, March 2. The delivery...

Woman beheads one-year-old son for this strange reason…

There was a somber mood at a village in Ndhiwa sub-county after a lady beheaded her one-year-old son for refusing to suckle. The 23-year-old woman...

Cock in trouble for killing owner

A cock fitted with a knife for an illegal cockfight has killed its owner. It killed its owner when it tried to escape by...

Trump to seek re-election in 2024

Donald Trump has suggested he may run for president again in 2024 – amid an angry attack on Joe Biden in his first major...

Former French President jailed

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail-two of them suspended - for corruption. Sarkozy, 66, was found guilty of...

Woman burnt by ex-lover in chemical attack transformed by face transplant

A domestic abuse survivor has become the first person in the world to get a second face transplant. Carmen Tarleton is "very happy" with her...

Police arrest fake gold dealers

Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) have arrested eight foreigners in a sting operation in Munyonyo, a Kampala suburb. Daily Monitor understands that the...

How Marcus Garvey actually read his own obituary in a newspaper two weeks before he died

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was an eccentric man with arguably impossible dreams. But none of these things compare to the stranger-than-fiction story of how the...

Man arrested for attempting to bury pregnant wife alive

A 49-year-old Nigerian man, Phillip Tersso, has been arrested for attempting to bury his wife of 10 years, Mary, alive after finding out that...

Woman jailed for killing husband, dumping body in latrine

A court has sentenced a Ugandan woman and her two children to between 20 and 35 years in prison for murdering her husband Abel...

Gay Ugandan asylum seekers ‘in danger if sent home’

Same-sex liaisons are illegal in Uganda. People convicted of homosexual acts can be sent to jail for the rest of their lives. Some gay Ugandans...

The Nigerian civil war massacre that shook Africa

Only West African neighbour Burkina Faso has seen more successful overthrows of government than Nigeria, the world’s biggest Black-populated nation and the continent’s largest...

Man cuts off part of his manh**d to control his libido

A man in Benue state, identified as Terhemen Anongo, popularly called Doc K or Bob Korna, has cut off part of his genitals to...

Biden revokes Trump’s ban on many green card applicants

United States (US) President, Joe Biden, on Wednesday, revoked a proclamation from his predecessor that blocked many green card applicants from entering the US. Former...

14-year-old girl squeezes grandfather’s ‘balls’ during attempted defilement

 A 49-year-old grandfather has been arrested after being warded off by his 14-year-old granddaughter who he reportedly tried to rape.  B-Metro reported that the incident occurred...

Mother rescues children from fire by dropping them through window

A woman has rescued her four children from a burning building by dropping them through a window. The family was in a five-storey building in...