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Man caught trying to write exam for his wife during recruitment exercise

A man identified as Adekunle Aremu has been apprehended for impersonating his wife during an Osun Teacher's recruitment exercise in Nigeria. The impostor was caught while trying...

Two masks wearing reduces COVID-19 spread, U.S. study shows

Making sure a mask fits snugly on the face and use of two masks are likely to significantly reduce a person’s exposure to the...

Popular cross dresser, two others jailed for practicing homos3xuality [Video]

A popular Cameroonian cross dresser known as Shakiro and two homosexuals have been sentenced to prison.  According to Cameroon News Agency,  the court of first...

Coronavirus: Bat scientists find new evidence

Scientists say coronaviruses related to Sars-CoV-2 may be circulating in bats across many parts of Asia. They have discovered a virus that is a close...

Europe’s oldest person, a 116-year-old nun, survives Covid-19

Europe's oldest person has survived Covid-19 after testing positive just a few weeks before her 117th birthday. Sister André, a nun who was born in 1904, tested positive for...

Mystery illness in Tanzania leaves patients vomiting blood

A mystery illness that causes people to vomit blood has killed 15 people and hospitalised more than 50 others in Tanzania. The illness detected in...

16-year-old stowaway survives flight from Kenya to Holland

A 16-year-old Kenyan stowaway was found alive after he reportedly hid in the landing gear of an airplane that flew from the East African...

Iranian cleric makes wild claims against COVID-19 vaccine

An Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian, has warned his social media followers not to "go near" anyone who's had the covid-19 vaccine, as they...

Biden expands protection for LGBTQI

U.S. President, Joe Biden, on Thursday issued a presidential memorandum aimed at expanding protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer...

Two Christians flogged publicly for drinking and gambling [Photos]

Two Christian men were publicly flogged today in Indonesia's ultra-conservative Aceh province for drinking alcohol and gambling, in a rare case of non-Muslims facing...

Two judges elected to the African Court

The 34th African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Ordinary Summit has elected two new judges as members of the African Court on...

Woman allegedly kills house help after inserting pepper, metal into her private part

The Kano State Police Command, Nigeria, is set to prosecute a mother-of-four, Mrs Fatima Hamza, who is accused of killing her housemaid, Khadija Rabiu. Mrs Hamza was...

Church usher reveals what a member put in the offering envelope

A church usher took to Twitter to share a photo showing what a member put in the offering envelope. Rather than put money or a cheque...

Ghanaians abroad angry at govt

Some Ghanaians in Holland and Germany have lamented over the compulsory $50 COVID-19 testing fee announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo. After commending the government...

Diddy sues Sean John clothing company for $25m for using his image

Diddy is once again embroiled in a legal battle with Sean John, the clothing line he made famous. According to federal court documents filed in Manhattan, N.Y....

BBC Africa Eye: Lady P and the sex worker sisterhood – Abused, trafficked or killed?

n Sierra Leone, sex workers are often seen as immoral outcasts to be shunned and avoided, even though their profession is legal.   BBC Africa Eve...

New Ebola case detected in eastern DRC

A new case of Ebola has been identified near the city of Butembo in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s health...

Why Nigeria was removed from WHO vaccine-sharing program

Nigeria expected to receive not fewer than 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccines by the end of January or at the beginning of February but...

A new case of Ebola virus detected in DR Congo

A new case of the Ebola virus has been detected in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's health ministry says. A...

Why I killed my wife and child – Evangelist confesses

Chukwuemeka Obijofa, a 28-year-old man, who claimed to be an ordained evangelist, has explained why he killed his wife and four-year- old son with a shovel in...

Chaos in church as pastor refuses to wed couple for being 5 minutes late [Video]

Church members and wedding guests in a church in Port Harcourt engaged in a verbal fight when the pastor refused to wed a couple...

Woman mauled to death ‘by dog she rescued’

Woman, 25, chewed to death by her rescue dog that attacked her on her sleep A 25-year-old woman was savaged to death by her family's...

Coronavirus: Check out the country that’s rejecting the vaccine

For months, Tanzania’s government has insisted the country was free from Covid-19 – so there are no plans for vaccination. The BBC’s Dickens Olewe...

Biden: ‘Erratic’ Trump should not get intelligence briefings

President Joe Biden has said his predecessor Donald Trump should not be given access to intelligence briefings because of his “erratic behaviour”. The United States...

60-year-old man dies while taking part in drinking challenge

A 60-year-old man has died while taking part in a drinking challenge live on Youtube. Yuri Dushechkin took in one-and-half litres of vodka on a...

Africa’s best Rolls Royce collector laid to rest

Popularly known as a collector of one of the most expensive cars, Rolls Royce, Dr Bolu Akin-Olugbade, has been laid to rest. The wealthy businessman...

Suspect flirts with female judge during virtual bond hearing [Video]

A Florida burglary suspect tried to shoot his shot at the female judge during a virtual court appearance on Thursday, February 4. Defendant Demetrius Lewis flirted with...

Church under fire as six-week-old baby dies during baptism

The Orthodox Church in Romania is facing growing pressure to change baptism rituals after a  six-week-old baby died following a ceremony earlier this week. The...

Airport officials discover parcels of drugs in woman’s hair [Watch]

An unidentified woman's attempt to cheat airport checkpoint with her hard drugs was shut down when officials nabbed her. A video, which has since gone...

Siblings murder ‘rival’, disfigure body with acid

Two siblings have been arrested for the part they allegedly played in the death of a missing makeup artist whose death shook Twitter. Recall that...

Why this barber was arrested will shock you

A young barber from Benue State, identified as Elijah Ode, has reportedly been arrested in Kano for blasphemy.  According to a Benue activist, Smith Akoko, the young...

Instagram stops some users from posting ‘feed photos to stories’

Instagram is disabling the ability to share (and reshare) posts from your feed to stories as part of a test to see how it...

Minister takes back ambulance after losing party primary

A Ugandan minister has withdrawn an ambulance she donated to residents of the northern town of Koboko ahead of the ruling party's primaries which...

15-year-old pregnant girl contracts HIV and Syphilis

A 15-year-old girl is three months pregnant, HIV positive and also being treated for Syphilis after her mother forced her into prostitution. The...

Two MPs exchange blows at a funeral [Video]

Two Kenyan Members of Parliament (MPs) have exchanged blows at a funeral after one of them insinuated that the other was corrupt."We have several...

Drama as DNA proves High Court judge is not father of his 3 children

A Nigerian High Court judge has been left traumatised after DNA proved he is not the father of three children with his ex-wife. The judge,...

Late Zimbabwean lawmaker left behind 12 wives and 79 children [Photo]

Luke Phibion Masamvu, the Zimbabwean lawmaker who represented Mutasa North constituency, has died of Coronavirus.  The former legislator, who was a well-known businessman in Marondera, Bindura and...

4 big myths about coronavirus variants people need to stop believing

Over the past month, news of new SARS-CoV-2 variants has emerged from around the globe: first in the United Kingdom, then South Africa and...

Man, 21, confesses to kidnapping, murder of two nephews

The police in Osun State in Nigeria have arrested a 21-year-old undergraduate of a state-owned university and his herdsman accomplice for kidnapping and killing...

Tears as beautiful wife dies five days after her wedding

Social media has been inundated with photos of a beautiful Nigerian woman who has died five days after getting married. The deceased, identified as Khadijat...