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2 bag death sentence for defiling, killing 8-year-old girl

A High Court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria has sentenced a level 200 student of Physics department, University of Port Harcourt, Ifeanyi Dike and his...

Burundi orders WHO official to leave country

Burundi has expelled the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the country and three other health experts. An unsigned letter from the foreign affairs ministry...

‘I was shunned over coronavirus fears’ – Kenyan nurse

A Kenyan nurse found herself being shunned and harassed after she prepared a patient for a Covid-19 test while she was on a nightshift. Eunice...

2baba’s baby mama Sunmbo Adeoye welcomes baby girl

Congratulations are in order for Nigerian singer 2baba's baby mama Sunmbo Adeoye as she welcomes a beautiful baby girl. Sunmbo delivered her baby girl...

Covid-19: T.B. Joshua’s message to the world after returning from the mountain

Popular televangelist, Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, has prayed for the recovery of coronavirus patients. The leader of The Synagogue...

Society where women are allowed to pick their husbands [Photos]

The story of Bijagos Archipelago, a community in Guinea Bissau, is a counter-narrative to popular societies where most things are controlled by the men....

Church fined for selling bleach as coronavirus cure

A church in Australia has been fined for unlawfully advertising a purported “miracle” coronavirus cure that contains a bleach product, the Therapeutic Goods Administration...

Pastor and his wife living with HIV-Aids for 20 years share their story

Rev. and Mrs John Azumah are HIV-AIDS patients with very unique and admirable life story. On Joy Prime’s morning show in the show’s Survivor...

Nigerian pastor reveals his source of money and power [video]

Nigerian pastor, Prophet Odumeje, has gained the attention of a lot of people on social media in recent times and more people continue to...

Lawmaker tested for Covid-19 after coughing in parliament

An Australian lawmaker has been tested for Covid-19 after a coughing fit in parliament on Tuesday made it difficult for him to finish his speech. Video footage shows Australian...

Coronavirus drains Vatican coffers as income falls, deficits loom

Late last month, the Vatican announced the coronavirus pandemic had forced Pope Francis to postpone an annual fund raising campaign among Catholics worldwide to...

Customers chased out of the bank for defying social distancing [Video]

Chairman of the Ikwerre Local Government Area in River State, Nigeria on Wednesday stormed the United Bank of Africa (UBA)’s branch in the area...

Twitter says staff can work from home forever

Twitter has told staff that they can work from home "forever" if they wish as the company looks towards the future after the coronavirus...

Coronavirus detected in South Sudan camps

Health officials in South Sudan have for the first time confirmed cases of coronavirus in camps for people displaced by conflict. Two people have become...

COVID-19 unemployment grant launched for citizens

South Africa’s government on Monday made available to citizens access to state grant for those rendered jobless due to the coronavirus. The government’s COVID-19 relief programme for...

Director of Louis Vuitton & CEO of Off-White endorses rapper Kofi Mole

Virgil Abloh, the artistic director of fashion brand, Louis Vuitton, who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Off-White has endorsed Ghanaian rapper,...

It ‘will be madness’ to hold elections amid Covid-19 pandemic

Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has given the strongest signal that presidential election in his country due next year may not take place if the coronavirus...

Madagascar’s President says the West ‘looks down on’ Africa over herbal drug

Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has responded to critics of his country’s much touted herbal remedy for coronavirus. He told French news channel France24 that those doubting...

Two newborn babies,12 others killed by gunmen at a maternity ward [Graphic photos]

Suspected ISIS gunmen have killed two newborn babies with at least 12 mothers and nurses after they stormed a maternity hospital in the Afghan...

Girl drowns baby for making her miss university admission

A 22-year-old lady, Adisa Funmilola, has drowned her baby because she prevented her from going to the university to study law. According to reports,...

113-year-old Spanish woman becomes oldest person in world to recover from coronavirus

A 113-year-old Spanish woman is believed to have become the oldest person in the world to recover from coronavirus. Maria Branyas, the oldest person in Spain, confirmed she...

South Africa coronavirus: US gives 1,000 ventilators, cases pass 11,000

South Africa has become a COVID-19 model for the continent in many ways since it confirmed its index case on 5th March, 2020. From...

Tanzania hit by sugar shortage after price controls

Tanzania has run short of sugar over the last three weeks causing frustration among traders and consumers. Most shops have not stocked the commodity -...

Coronavirus: ‘Nearly 1,000 African medics infected’

The World Health Organization (WHO) has tweeted that nearly 1,000 health workers in the African region have been infected with coronavirus.The WHO urged governments...

Congolese rail worker dies of coronavirus after being spat at

A Congolese woman, who worked as a railway ticket office worker in London, has died of coronavirus after she was spat at by a...

Spain to quarantine all arrivals from overseas

The Spanish government announced on Tuesday that it will impose a 14-day quarantine on all travelers who arrive from another country as another measure...

What Bill Gates told Trump about coronavirus in 2016 [read]

Billionaire Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, has revealed that he informed Donald Trump to prepare for pandemic weeks before Mr Trump became the United Staes...

Canes, punches fly as ladies engage in gang fight over a guy

It was a survival of the fittest moment in Ilupeju, Lagos in Nigeria when a group of ladies stormed the street to allegedly fight...

Five coronavirus patients killed in hospital fire

Five coronavirus patients died in a hospital blaze early today due to a short circuit igniting a ventilator machine, said reports in Russia. An inferno swept through an...

Why I sold my baby for $300 – Orphan

A 20-year-old lady, Miracle Kalu, who was arrested for selling her one-month-old baby for N130,000, to an unknown couple in Lagos, has blamed her...

Coronavirus: Kenya has freed 7,000 inmates

Kenya has released 7,000 inmates in a bid to decongest prisons since coronavirus pandemic hit the country, Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i has told Senators.The...

Buhari accepts Madagascar’s coronavirus ‘cure’

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to accept the consignment of a herbal tea touted as a cure for...

Video shows Rome City shaking after being hit by earthquake

A mild earthquake shook Rome on Monday morning after the Italian city came out of Coronavirus lockdown following a massive drop in new cases. The...

Coronavirus: Tears can help spread infection – Scientists reveal

Scientists have claimed the coronavirus can enter the body through the eyes after finding they contain a protein used by the infection to bind to...

Can air condition spread coronavirus? Here’s what you must know

Once coronavirus restrictions lift, we face huge changes in the way we go about our lives ― it’s been suggested that social distancing will...

Offer your church halls as isolation centres – Pastor to colleagues

Popular Nigerian pastor, Tunde Bakare, has called on other pastors to offer their church halls as isolation centres. The Senior pastor of Citadel Global Community...

Emeka Ike’s savage reply to fan who said his ex-wife ‘fits him more’ than his new wife

Veteran Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike, recently got into it with some followers on Instagram about his ex-wife and his current wife, Yolanda who is...

The fight over Kwame Nkrumah’s dead body

The Fight Over Nkrumah’s Remains: On April 27, 1972, Kwame Nkrumah, the deposed President of Ghana and a great Pan-Africanist died in Bucharest, Romania after...

COVID-19 vaccine status: These 4 coronavirus vaccines are leading the race

Nations around the world have closed their borders and ordered a strict lockdown in order to avoid further pressure on the already overwhelmed medical...

Ghanaian lands appointment on Oversight Board of Facebook and Instagram

Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Programme Manager at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa from Ghana, has been appointed as...