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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...

Fix your elections before you give us lectures – Uganda govt jabs US

A spokesperson for President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has slammed criticisms from the United States (US) government leveled against the way and manner in...

Twitter planning a feature to let you auto-block and mute abusive accounts

Twitter plans to introduce a way for you to automatically block and mute abusive accounts, the company announced at its Analyst Day presentation on...

Man survives 14 hours in Pacific Ocean ‘clinging to sea rubbish’

A sailor, who fell overboard, survived by clinging to a "piece of sea rubbish", his son has revealed. Vidam Perevertilov spent 14 hours in the...

Bill Gates: Bitcoin not for me, says ex-Microsoft chief

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has not invested in Bitcoin, he said in a live chat on the social network Clubhouse. Mr Gates told host Andrew...

A brief walk into the lives of one of the world’s most ancient people

Being the first to find a settlement in the Lower Niger and Niger Delta, it is possible that they may have started inhabiting this...

Cameroon police arrest 9 for practicing homos3xuality

Nine Cameroonians, suspected of being homosexuals, have been arrested in western Cameroon. Two of the suspects are still in custody, a police officer and a...

Anger as Naomi Campbell promotes Kenya using Nigerian music

The tourism industry is dwindling, being one of the hardest affected by the coronavirus pandemic and many countries are looking for creative means to...

Why this lady was sacked on her first day at work will shock you

A lady has reportedly been sacked on her first day at work after asking a manager if she 'stands a chance with him and can...

Kim Kardashian steps out without wedding ring after filing for divorce from Kanye West [Photos]

Now that her divorce from Kanye West has been announced, Kim Kardashian wants people to know that she is a soon-to-be single woman. The reality TV star was...

Woman arrested for having s3x with 13-year-old boy

A yet-to-be-identified Greendale woman has been arrested after she was caught red-handed having sex with a 13-year-old boy at the teenager’s parents’ home in Houghton Park,...

Man abducts neighbour’s two kids for ‘child labour and pleasure’

The police in Imo State have arrested a 32-year-old man, Chibuzor Awurumibe, for allegedly kidnapping his former neighbour's two kids. The abducted children have been identified...

Japan appoints Minister of Loneliness to tackle alarming suicide rates

In a bid to tackle the rise in suicide rates for the first time in 11 years due to the coronavirus crisis, Japanese Prime...

Tears as Ghanaian woman is found dead in her room in London [Video]

A UK-based Ghanaian woman identified as Dora Mills has been found dead in her room. in London. Though the cause of death or date is...

Tears as victims of Nigerian Airforce plane crash are laid to rest [Photos]

The burial ceremony of victims of the Nigerian Air Force plane crash in Abuja last Sunday has been held at the National Cemetery, Abuja. The...

It’s unfortunate Mahama dragged us to court over innocuous error – EC in closing address

The lawyers of the Electoral Commission (EC), first respondent in the ongoing petition hearing say it is unfortunate that they were dragged to court...

Covid-19: A-level and GCSE results to be decided by teachers

GCSEs and A-levels cancelled in England by the pandemic will be replaced by grades decided by teachers, the exams watchdog Ofqual has confirmed. Schools can...

Australia passes law to make Google and Facebook pay for news

Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms. The news code legislation had been...

22 million Ugandans to miss Coronvirus vaccine

Ugandans in the age bracket of 0 to 17 years will not get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine jabs due to limited data on their...