South African rapist recites poem for victim in court
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...
94-year-old father of 100 marries four new wives
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, dares president to publicly deny not getting married to another wife
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...
Repent and seek God’s face – Boko Haram leader tells Borno residents
Abubakar Shekau, the founding leader of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, has asked the people of Borno state to repent and seek the...
I rape minors to ease tension – 18-year-old rape suspect
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,...
Man steals his in-law’s police uniform for robbery
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,...
Woman in trouble over disappearance of men’s private parts in BRT
A woman narrowly escaped death yesterday after being mobbed in a Bus
Rapid Transit (BRT) bus at Onipanu Bus Stop in Lagos for the...
Zuma loses bid to stop corruption trial
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...
I felt special meeting Beyoncé and her daughter – Shatta Wale
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...
Thunder kills ritualist in hotel room
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...
Magufuli shocked at pregnancy rates in schools
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has said he is shocked by the lack of action against men who impregnated 229 schoolgirls in the south-western...
Photo: UNILAG punishes another lecturer caught in sex-for-grade scandal
The University of Lagos, Akoka, has suspended another lecturer, Dr Samuel Oladipo, of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, after he...
#SexForGrades: Calls for action after BBC Africa Eye film
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...
Sexforgrades: I will not be pressured to speak – UNILAG lecturer
Dr Boniface Igbeneghu has said that he will not be speaking anytime soon on the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him in the...
Sex for grades: I’ll never sleep with my student, I’m a gentleman – Prof. Gyampo [video]
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...
SexForGrades: No more ‘cold room experience’ as UNILAG shuts down location
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...
Rwanda deports American pastor
An American preacher, Gregg Schoof who was arrested on Monday in Rwanda for holding an "illegal meeting with journalists" has been deported, New Times...
Video: ‘Sex for grades’: Undercover in West African universities
Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic,...
Magufuli praises official who caned students
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has praised a senior government official for caning a group of secondary school students who were accused of setting fire...
Thirteen killed in Kenya bus crash
At least 13 people have been killed and others injured after a bus collided with a truck in a town near the lakeside city...
Man, 27, caught digging up father’s body to retrieve his leather shoes
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,...
Murder: Ghanaian stabs Ghanaian to death in Europe
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...
Pastor robs, kills girlfriend, uses proceeds to renovate church
The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested a pastor for the alleged murder of his girlfriend and church member within the Railway axis...
The last legal sex workers in Tunisia
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...
Pastor dies while officiating member’s funeral service
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...
Mugabe’s family to ‘inherit Zanu-PF properties’
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...
Mugabe buried in steel coffin encased in concrete as family claims people are ‘after his body’
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...
Switzerland to auction 25 luxury cars seized from son of Equatorial Guinea’s president
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...
Police uncover baby factory in Lagos, rescue 19 pregnant girls
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...
Xenophobia: Obasanjo advises Nigerians evacuated from South Africa to return
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...
RCCG pastor stabbed to death during vigil
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...
Man attacks, robs employer for sacking him
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...
The dilemma of how to appease Mugabe’s spirit
That question has been puzzling many Zimbabweans since it emerged that the body of former President Robert Mugabe - who died more than three...
Torture House: Hundreds freed in police raid
Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused...
Army Corporal arrested with 169 blocks of cannabis
A Corporal in the Nigerian Army identified as Muzambilu Abdullahi has been arrested in possession of 169 blocks of Indian Hemp...
Video: Lady allegedly runs mad after alighting from G-Wagon
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2wyZuznP7k/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_againREAD: Special Report: Find out where poisoned water is used to grow vegetables for public consumption (video)A lady, suspected to be a student of...
How an encounter with Bill Gates changed my mentality about wealth and charity – Dangote
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...
‘The fastest way to become poor is to become MP’ – Kenya MP says as he quits
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 steal TV sets from South African Police Commissioners home
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...
Man, who allegedly raped 17-year-old mentally deranged girl, set on fire
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...