Man charged for disclosing patient’s coronavirus status
A Zimbabwean man has appeared in a court in the capital, Harare, for allegedly disclosing the status of a Covid-19 patient on a WhatsApp...
‘Dear Mr President, please give my cigarettes back’
A desperate South African has reportedly addressed a letter to the president himself, asking that the national ban on the sale of cigarettes during...
Woman hangs herself after poisoning her children, leaves suicide note
A tragic incident occurred on Wednesday night in Kenya, Nairobi County, as a 33-year-old woman, identified as Jane Mwende, committed suicide by hanging herself.The woman, who hanged...
3 female politicians ‘beaten and dumped’ on road
Three opposition politicians in Zimbabwe have been found badly beaten and dumped by a road.The politicians from the Movement for Democratic Change were reported...
Man allegedly kills cousin over mangoes [Photos]
The Abia state police command has arrested a middle-aged man, identified as Chinedu Omeonu, for killing his cousin, Solomon Monday Orji.The incident, according to...
Video: Two grown men fight over a woman
Two grown men took to the streets to fight each other over a woman.In a video shared online, both men are seen throwing punches...
Five million antibody kits ready to be shipped out to UK as second test approved
A major pharmaceutical firm is ready to begin shipping five million antibody kits to Britain a month after its test became the second given...
Comoros thanks Madagascar for supply of COVID-Organics
The Comorian president Azali Assoumani thanked the people of Madagascar and President Rajoelina for donation of COVID-Organics, the purported virus preventative and curative mixture.Also...
Mauritius ‘declares victory in Covid-19 battle’
Mauritius has declared victory in the battle against coronavirus, but says it has not yet won the war, the AFP news agency reports quoting...
Covid-19: Top govt official opens lid on drugs used to treat his case
A former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, has said “hydroxychloroquine” was amongst the medications he used to...
MTN grows revenue by 11% amid coronavirus pandemic
Telecommunication giant, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN), has recorded positive service revenue by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 2020.The increase in the...
Photos of highway temperature checks in Bono Region amid Covid-19
As Covid-19 continues to spread at both regional and community levels, the government and its collaborating agencies in the health sector are adopting new...
Covid-19: Lady tells story of how lockdown saved her friend
A lady has narrated how her friend nearly ended up getting married to a married man with kids.A few weeks to their wedding which...
Osibisa band, first African band to go Platinum
Osibisa band was the first Ghanaian as well as African band to notch up a whole series of best-selling singles and albums in the...
Coronavirus: Bishop Oyedepo makes revelation on vaccine
Pastor of Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has kicked against the bill before the House of Representatives which has been a source of...
Covid-19: Ibn Chambas gives prediction on African elections and economies
With some general elections in Africa marked by tension and violence, the outbreak of Covid-19 in an election era is likely to increase the...
3 men narrowly escape death as container falls on their car [Video]
Three unidentified men have narrowly escaped death after a container carrying goods fell on a car they were traveling in.According to a witness, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...