Eleven people were arrested in southern Mexico on Tuesday after the mayor of their village was dragged out of his office, beaten, and then tied to a pickup...
Kelechi Nwigbo, a Germany-returnee, has allegedly been killed by lightning in his hotel room behind Eke Market, Afikpo, Ebonyi state.He had checked into...
The University of Lagos, Akoka, has suspended another lecturer, Dr Samuel Oladipo, of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, after he...
West African politicians and film stars are among thousands calling for action following a BBC report into sexual harassment at top universities.
A year-long investigation...
Political Science lecturer, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has refuted claims that he sleeps with vulnerable girls in exchange for grades in the University of Ghana.
Speaking...
Following the revelation in the ‘Sex for Grade’ documentary released by BBC Africa Eye, the University of Lagos has shut-down the ‘Cold Room’, where...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi Arabia has lifted some restrictions on women travelling in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, its tourism authority said Sunday,...
An American preacher, Gregg Schoof who was arrested on Monday in Rwanda for holding an "illegal meeting with journalists" has been deported, New Times...
Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic,...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has praised a senior government official for caning a group of secondary school students who were accused of setting fire...
Facebook Inc has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia, citing “coordinated inauthentic...
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An elderly female bank employee has been hailed after she fought off an armed bank robber and forced him to leave the premises.
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A Kenyan man was caught exhuming his father’s body to retrieve his leather shoes.
The 27-year-old Patrick Mwangi Katonye was caught by members of the public,...
Colombian officials have ordered an investigation following the daring escape in Bogota of an imprisoned former senator from a medical centre where she had...
A Ghanaian resident in Spain has allegedly killed another
Ghanaian in a meat factory where they both work.
The happening was made known to the Ghanaian...
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to face South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, weeks after Nigerians were subjected to xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
South African...
For decades state-regulated brothels have existed in Tunisia. They
remain legal, but pressure from women's rights activists and religious
conservatives has forced nearly all...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says social media is threatening to undermine national security, and has called for an end to hate speech.
In an address...
The 42-year-old founder of Divine Mount Zion Gospel Ministry, Pastor
Femi Olorunsoromidayo reportedly died while conducting the funeral
service of one of his members.
Pastor Femi, who...
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party will transfer ownership of the palatial home in which the late President Robert Mugabe lived in the capital, Harare, to...
Nineteen pregnant teens and women were rescued as Nigerian police busted a suspected child trafficking ring planning to sell babies, a police spokesman told...
Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe was buried in a steel-lined coffin under a layer of concrete on Saturday, September 28th, following a bitter...
An auction house in Switzerland is set to sell 25 luxury cars
including Ferraris, Rolls-Royces and Lamborghinis that Geneva
authorities seized from Teodoro Nguema...
A statement from the state police command spokesperson, Bala Elkana,
says the discovery was made following a tipoff from concerned members of
the public.
According...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised Nigerians evacuated
from South Africa following the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals
in the Rainbow Nation to get ready...
A 27-year-old man, Ebuka Everest, has been arrested for attacking his former employer, Theresa Nnamdi, in Ogun state.Everest was said to have tied his...
Police have launched an investigation in South Korea after a doctor performed an abortion by mistake.
On August 7, a pregnant patient with a six-week-old...
