Three killed in riot over wearing of face masks
Three people were killed in a small town in Kenya's Rift Valley during a confrontation between police and residents over the wearing of coronavirus face masks. Witness...
Politician who told God to kill him at 70 dies at 70 [Video]
https://twitter.com/Naijapals/status/1276220363387613185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276220363387613185&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacefmonline.com%2Fpages%2Flocal%2Fsocial%2F202006%2F415837.phpNigerian politician, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has been confirmed dead after being infected with Coronavirus.The former Oyo State governor reportedly died at 70 of...
Earth tremors show that a big earthquake is coming – Disaster Risk Management expert
A Disaster Risk Management Expert has cautioned that a bigger earthquake may be approaching due to the steady increase of earth tremors across the...
Tears as 6-year-old boy commits suicide
Police in Kilifi are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a six-year-old boy, who is alleged to have committed suicide on Thursday, June...
Nigerian returns huge cash he found in Indomie carton
A Nigerian man, Chidiebere Ogbonna, has suddenly become an internet sensation and tagged a “good Samaritan” after returning the sum of N1.8m he found...
South Africans call for school closure as students test positive for coronavirus
Calls for the closure of South African schools are growing as 204 people, mostly learners, tested positive at a boarding school in the Eastern...
Africa’s top virus deaths: Ex-Nigerian governor dies
The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa is heading is gone past the 1,000 mark as of April 18, 2020. The casualties...
Five kidnapped mixed-race women to sue Belgium
Five mixed-race - or métis - women who were in the colonial era taken from their mothers by force in Belgian-Congo are taking the...
Ivory Coast begins cleanup after deadly floods
A clean-up has begun in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan after floods triggered by torrential rains left streets and houses underwater and at...
Suppress COVID-19 transmission by all means – WHO urges countries
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked all nations to make it an urgent responsibility to suppress transmission of the coronavirus and save lives,...
Miner becomes overnight millionaire
A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones - the biggest ever find in the country.Saniniu...
584 drug suspects arrested in Nigeria – NDLEA
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has disclosed that it had arrested 584 persons for drug-related offences, in Lagos State alone, with a...
Gabon MPs vote to decriminalise homosexuality
Members of Gabon's lower house of parliament have voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse a...
Six people who’ve come back to life shares what happens after death
As the famous saying goes, there are only two certain things in life - death and taxes.But it still remains mysterious despite huge scientific...
Nigeria: Man in court for having sex with pig
A 22- year-old man, Ayokunbi Olaniyi,has been arraigned before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly having sex with a pig.The police prosecutor, Insp....
Bizarre: Woman crushes hubby’s balls
A 35-year-old married woman, Omolara Seriki, has allegedly damaged the scrotum of her 52-year-old husband, Raheem, after she allegedly caught him cheating with another...
Veteran actor reacts to being called a ritualist [Video]
Popular Nollywood actor, Anayo Modestus Onyekwere, popularly known as Kanayo O Kanayo, has reacted to being called a ritualist on social media.The actor,...
More than 180 SA pupils test positive at coronavirus hotspot
The health authorities in South Africa are scrambling to contain a coronavirus outbreak at a school in Eastern Cape province after about 180 pupils...
British school begs ex-Nigerian student over racism
The Head Master of Eton College, Simon Henderson, says he is “appalled” by the racism experienced by Dillibe Onyeama, the first Nigerian and first...
Liberia’s Education Minister flown into Ghana for Covid-19 treatment
Liberia’s Education Minister has been flown into Accra and is undergoing treatment after testing positive for Covid-19, sources close to Ghana’s Covid-19 management team...
Coronavirus: Liberia’s Education Minister flown into Ghana for treatment
Liberia’s Education Minister has been flown into Accra and is undergoing treatment after testing positive for Covid-19, sources close to Ghana’s Covid-19 management team...
Major political party in Nigeria wades into demolition of High Commission’s property in Ghana
Nigeria's largest opposition political party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has blamed the demolition of the country's High Commission's property in Ghana on its...
South Africa to start Africa’s first coronavirus vaccine pilot
South Africa has rolled out the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial this week.The university leading the pilot has said, as the country grapples with...
Lagos: Chief Imam’s son kills friend over mobile phone
The son of the Chief Imam of Isale Oja community in Agege, Abdulrahman Olayiwola, has been arrested by Lagos state police for allegedly stabbing...
Man stabs lover to death, commits suicide
A man, Chris Ndukwe, has reportedly committed suicide after stabbing his lover, Olamide Alli, to death at his place of residence on the Victory...
Couple arrested for molesting man’s ex-girlfriend [Photo]
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a couple for allegedly inserting a bottle into the private part of the man’s ex-girlfriend.Osas Onyeokweni, and...
Woman gifts husband branded coffin on Father’s Day (Photo)
Father’s Day is an occasion set aside to celebrate fathers, potential fathers and men who in one way or the other play the role...
Florida police caught using mug shots of black men for target practice
A South Florida family is outraged at North Miami Beach Police after mug shots of African American men were used as targets at a...
Bizzare: 7 Nigerian journalists die in a week [photo]
Seven popular journalists in Nigeria have died within the last seven days.The journalists, who work with different media organizations in Nigeria, died of different...
Man rapes, murders his sister-in-law to punish his brother
A middle-aged man, Aminu Bala, has been arrested in Damaga, Zamfara state for allegedly raping and killing his brother’s wife, Hauwa Iliyasu.The spokesman of...
Release pastors who violated Covid-19 safety protocols or curses will follow you – Pastor to Akufo-Addo [Video]
The founder of Potter’s Family Chapel has called for the immediate release of pastors who were jailed for not adhering to directives imposed by...
Coronavirus: Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 deaths
Brazil has become the second country, after the US, to register more than 50,000 deaths from Covid-19.The grim milestone comes amid growing political unrest...
Four devastating ways black Brits health is suffering because of racism
Why in Britain, in 2020, are black people still marching against racism and injustice?In a hard-hitting series, launching today on Windrush Day – the...
Nigerian researchers announce Covid-19 vaccine
A team of Nigerian scientists has announced the discovery of a preventive vaccine against the novel coronavirus, local media reported Saturday.“It is our passion...
Coronavirus pandemic accelerating with Americas worst, warns WHO
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day, and nearly half of them in the Americas,...
Egyptian LGBTQ activist takes her own life
Sarah Hegazi, 30, a prominent queer Egyptian feminist, committed suicide on Saturday in exile in Canada. She bore the scars of torture and assault...
Meet Burundi’s new ‘humble’ and ‘religious’ leader
Burundi's president-elect, 52-year-old Evariste Ndayishimiye, who is expected to be sworn in Thursday, is highly regarded as a "humble" and "religious" man.He was among...
Kenyan guards charged with leaking president’s video
Two Kenyan security guards have been charged in court after a video of President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga on a...
Coronavirus: WHO suspends use of Malaria drug again
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has for the second time stopped the use of an antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine on severely ill Covid-19 patients.Data from...
Africa reacts to success of dexamethasone trial
South Africa has said it was "considering" treating seriously ill Covid-19 patients with dexamethasone, a steroid drug that British medical scientists have hailed as...