Africa

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,...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has praised a senior government official for caning a group of secondary school students who were accused of setting fire...

At least 13 people have been killed and others injured after a bus collided with a truck in a town near the lakeside city...

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,...

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...

The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested a pastor for the alleged murder of his girlfriend and church member within the Railway axis...

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...

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...

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 Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has stabbed to death during a church vigil.Vanguard reports that the in incident took...

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...

That question has been puzzling many Zimbabweans since it emerged that the body of former President Robert Mugabe - who died more than three...

Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused...

A Corporal in the Nigerian Army identified as Muzambilu Abdullahi has been arrested in possession of 169 blocks of Indian Hemp...

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Africa’s richest man and chairman of the Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote, has said his meeting with Bill Gates changed him into a different person...

He is known for his trademark green suits and colourful jibes often directed at real and perceived enemies of Deputy President William Ruto.Dr David...

Thieves have stolen two television sets from a home of South Africa's police chief Gen Khehla Sitole, a police spokesman has said."Actually it was...

A 39-year-old man accused of raping a mentally deranged teenager at Muhovhoya village in Limpopo, South Africa, was set on fire by an angry mob which...