Africa

Ms Anifat Saheed, a female pilgrim who participated in the 2019 Hajj reportedly absconded after the Islamic spiritual exercise in Jeddah. Chairman of the Muslim...

A Gambian beauty queen has accused the country's former president, Yahya Jammeh, of raping her because she refused to marry him.Giving evidence to the...

Renowned cancer specialist, Professor Aderemi Tajudeen Ajekigbe, has died four months after he found that he had stage four prostate cancer, which is often...

Ghanaians who survived the unlawful killing of 56 West African migrants in the Gambia and the victims’ families have requested to testify at the...

Pastor Enoch Adeboye is set to hold special prayers for lecturers and students caught in the Sex-for-Grades scandal.As concerns mount over Sex-for-Grades...

A woman married three husbands against her father's approval and he gathered his clansmen to chase his daughter's husbands away from her ...

The Anambra State Police command has arrested a Pastor identified simply as Chukwuma, for raping a teenage student he reportedly lured on the pretence of conducting...

Authorities in Tanzania have arrested four Chinese contractors because of slow progress in a state-funded project in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam.The...

In April 1997 a woman dressed in a nurse's uniform walked out of a Cape Town hospital carrying a three-day-old baby taken from the...

For some days now, a certain woman has been making headlines for being used by different pastors for miracles.The woman whose arm has the...

The Lagos State Police has arrested a 25-year-old thief who abandoned his mission to watch a couple having sex in their apartment at Innocent...

Ibeh Augustine Chukwuma, a Brazil-based Nigerian man has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after arriving the Nnamdi Azikiwe...

Liberia is not uppermost when you think about the best-known places for tourism on the continent, but that could change if a new list...

A pastor has been exposed by his wife after he tried to secretly marry another woman.The game of betrayals reportedly played out...

A Nigerian husband and his Canadian wife of Ghanaian origin are fighting a deportation order scheduled for next week.Temitope Issac Kayode came to Canada several...

Ibrahim Adamu, a 35 -year-old man, on Thursday dragged both his parents-in-law before the Magajin Gari Shari’a Court in Kaduna State, accusing them of...

A man who died a year ago was mistakenly reappointed to serve on the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), the government says.Robert Kochalle died...

Police discovered more than 70 young men and boys in shackles when they raided a private Islamic school in northern Nigeria.Hundreds have been freed...

Doctors have finally found a way to stop Mariam Nabatanzi, said to be the world's most fertile woman from having more kids. The 36-year-old Ugandan woman...

Five people have been arrested in Uganda after they were found hiding their children to avoid the measles, rubella and polio mass vaccination programme.The...

Members of the Otunba Gani Adams-led Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), on Tuesday, October 15th arrested a suspected kidnapper in Ibadan, the Oyo State...

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has proved he’s not only amazing on the pitch but also marvelous at fathering his five-year-old daughter, Makka.He celebrated her...

Convicted rapist Nicholas Ninow has read out a poem he wrote for his seven-year-old victim as he appealed for leniency during a sentencing hearing...

Nulu Ssemakula, a Ugandan man with more than 100 children and over 19 wives has expanded his already huge family with an addition of...

First lady, Aisha Buhari, has finally reacted to reports making rounds that President Buhari is getting married.Aisha on Sunday said it was not her...

Abubakar Shekau, the founding leader of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, has asked the people of Borno state to repent and seek the...

The Niger state police command has arrested and paraded a suspected rapist identified as Mizanbilu Yusuf, for defiling si minors in the state. Yusuf, 18,...

Ojonugwa Ojomeje, the leader of a three man armed robbery gang, has revealed that he used his in-law’s police uniform for robbery in Ikorodu,...

A woman narrowly escaped death yesterday after being mobbed in a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) bus at Onipanu Bus Stop in Lagos for the...

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has lost a bid to avoid prosecution for corruption charges.The case has been hanging over Mr Zuma’s head...

Dancehall act, Shatta Wale has disclosed how he met American pop star, Beyoncé and her seven-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter during his recent travel...

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...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has said he is shocked by the lack of action against men who impregnated 229 schoolgirls in the south-western...

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...

Dr Boniface Igbeneghu has said that he will not be speaking anytime soon on the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him in the...

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...

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,...