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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...

Woman dies during alleged intercourse with Catholic priest

A Catholic priest, identified as Father Abel Mwelwa, has been suspended in Lusaka, Zambia, after his married lover allegedly died during a marathon sex in...

Artisanal miner kills colleague over US$20

An artisanal miner at Gasela homestead in Hope Fountain allegedly axed a colleague following a dispute over money. This was heard by Bulawayo magistrate Shepherd...

Libya’s intelligence chief dies of heart attack

Libya's intelligence chief Abdul Qader Al-Tuhami died of a heart attack on Saturday in the capital Tripoli, the country's presidential council said. In a statement,...

Goodluck Jonathan reveals why he is staying away from partisan politics

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he reduced his political activities since he quit power in 2015 to enable him to concentrate on his...

15 die as under-construction building collapses

At least 15 workers in Uganda died as an under-construction building collapsed on Sunday night, police said. The incident took place on the outskirts of...

Coronavirus can enter the body through the eyes, scientists warn

Coronavirus can enter your body through your eyes, a new study has warned. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that the eyes...

Coronavirus: How ‘secret burials’ in South Africa could help tackle Covid-19

A ban on large funerals in South Africa has forced people to give up many traditions, but they have also rediscovered old ones, including...

Banker commits suicide for this shocking reason [READ]

A banker identified as Okpanachi John, working with a branch of one the new generational banks in Kaduna, has reportedly committed suicide. The 37-year-old, who...

Popular musician begs God for a hit song

Veteran Nigerian rapper, Panshak Henry Zamani, popularly known as Ice Prince has cried out to God for a hit song. The Angas born rapper, producer...

Compulsory coronavirus vaccines in the UK, other rumours fact-checked

We’ve been fact-checking the most widely shared dubious coronavirus claims this week. There’s no mandatory vaccine law in UK First, we’ve looked at a widely shared...

Mother’s Day: Trump opens up about his parents [photos]

President Donald Trump opened up about his mother on Friday, saying she believed he could do no wrong, adding 'which is maybe why I...

Coronavirus: Pharmacist dies after drinking corrosive ‘cure’

A 47-year-old man in Chennai, India has died after consuming the concoction he helped create with his boss in an effort to beat the...

Ban on churches – Popular pastor invokes curses [watch]

Popular pastor has ruined curses on people in government behind the continued closure of churches in Nigeria due to coronavirus pandemic. Bishop David Oyedepo of...

Shocking story of how pastor defiled 5 minors including 4 siblings[video]

A pastor has been arrested for defiling five minors, including four siblings. The 48-year-old Pastor Otobong Emerson of Believers Ministries incorporated at Upper Owina, off...

China conducts first successful coronavirus vaccine test on monkeys

While the government and scientists all over the world are trying to develop an effective vaccine against the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed lakhs of...

More than 50% employees watch porn on their device while working from home

The Coronavirus or Covid-19 lockdown has forced people to face some ugly truths of life, which they were till now unaware of. Work from home has...

Covid-19: Ghana’s Saudi Mission begins registration for evacuation

The Embassy of Ghana in Riyadh and the General Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, says it has commenced compilation of a list of Ghanaians...

Angry wife poisons husband, gives shocking reason for the murder

A 33-year-old woman in Nasarawa state, Janet Ekpe, has killed her husband of eight years, Sunday Ekpe, after she discovered he was allegedly having...

Coronavirus: Ghana’s Mission in New York to compile evacuation list

The Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations and the Consulate General in New York has announced plans to compile a list of...

Over 500 of Ghana’s new Coronavirus cases were recorded at an industrial facility

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says over 500 of the 921 new Coronavirus cases in the country were recorded at an industrial facility. Ghana has...

​Asymptomatic coronavirus: All about what it is and if it can be identified

Even with strict lockdowns and social distancing measures, countries across the world are struggling to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. This highly...