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Two jets go missing at Lagos airport

Two Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 aircraft formerly used by Topbrass Aviation Services Limited, a local operator, have been allegedly stolen in Lagos.The airplanes (registration...

Ex-UBS trader gets last-minute reprieve from deportation

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader convicted of fraud, has been given a temporary reprieve from deportation to Ghana, where he was born.Adoboli was...

Fake nails, eye lashes banned in Tanzania parliament

Tanzanian lawmakers will no longer be able to come and go as they please and dressed as they want in carries out their duties...

Video: Politician allegedly caught bathing in a market

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1041019824430825473READ: I have a very high libido now – Joyce Dzidzor MensahAhead of the Nigerian elections next year, a politician has been caught naked...

Rwanda to immediately free jailed opposition figure

Rwanda has decided to immediately free Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader jailed for 15 years, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power to grant...

Rwanda pardons Kagame’s female opponent jailed in 2013

The Rwandan cabinet has approved a presidential pardon of over 2,000 convicts in a move that will benefit two prominent persons currently serving jail...

Liberia parliament jails minister two-nights for insulting MPs

No court conviction just a legislative debate and a deputy minister in Liberia was sentenced to two-days in jail for rude behaviour.Deputy Information Minister...

Kenya ban on lesbian romance film challenged

The Kenyan maker of a film about a lesbian romance has gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of its banning in her home...

All the photos as Kofi Annan goes home today

The mortal remains of the late United Nations (UN) Secretary-General will be laid to rest today at the Military Cemetery in Accra.The three-day state...

Separatists burn buses, vow to disrupt elections in Cameroon

Separatists who torched several buses and blocked access to the Northwest region have said it is part of their plan to disrupt the October...

Tanzania’s president condemns birth control

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has urged couples to keep reproducing, saying only "lazy people" opted for birth control, the local Citizen news site has...

Texas officer charged with manslaughter over ‘wrong flat’ killing

A police officer who shot and killed a man in his flat in Texas after apparently thinking she was in her own apartment has...

Ugandans attack govt officials at funeral of slain police chief

Protests broke out at the funeral of a top police officer who was shot and killed in Uganda on Saturday.Afande Muhammad Kirumira, an outspoken...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome accused of faking miracles in South Africa

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy has been accused by a member of his own church of staging miracle-healing sessions.According to a report from...

Uganda is ‘World’s most active nation’

A report into the levels of physical inactivity across the globe has found that Uganda is the world’s most active nation.The study, published in the...

Parents arrested after teen son dies during 40 days fasting

A Nigerian couple has been arrested in the US after their 15-year-old son reportedly died during a 40-day religious fast.Kehinde Omosebi, 49, and Titilayo...

Kenyan community establishes own form of ‘instant justice’

On a bitterly cold night in July 2014, Morris Nkonja grabbed his machete and set out along a muddy path off the main road...

Unexplained explosion kills 8 at South African munitions depot

An explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, has left at least eight people dead, but authorities are...

Kweku Adoboli to be deported September 10

Kweku Adoboli, a former trader convicted of fraud in 2012, is facing deportation to Ghana, after being detained by police in Scotland.He served four...

SA students ‘abandon difficult exam – and protest’

Students at a university in South Africa gave up on writing an exam - and started protesting that it was too difficult, local media...

3 killed in Soweto violence

Three people have been killed in South Africa during violence on Wednesday targeting foreign-owned businesses in Soweto, police say.Protests broke out after shopkeepers were...

Germany returns skulls of Namibian genocide victims

Germany has handed back the human remains of indigenous people killed during a genocide in colonial Namibia more than 100 years ago.A Namibian government...

Slap any comedian that cracks jokes against Jesus – Apostle Suleiman

General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleiman has hit at Nigerian comedians who love to crack jokes using the name of...

Kenya’s Deputy Chief justice arrested

Kenya’s Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has been arrested at her offices in the Supreme Court in the capital, Nairobi over alleged corruption.She has...

Photo: Mom sells 6-weeks-old baby; uses money to buy new phone

The Edo state police (Nigeria) command have apprehended a 23-year-old mother of two, Miracle Johnson, for selling her six-weeks-old baby and using proceeds from...

After South Africa, Namibia wants to embark on land reform

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Sunday urged citizens to participate in land expropriation talks, as he seeks to ease political and ethnic tensions over...

Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in as new President

Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the oath as Zimbabwe's president, after winning last month's bitterly contested election that marked the country's first vote since Robert Mugabe was...

Zimbabwe court dismisses Nelson Chamisa’s bid to annul election result

Zimbabwe’s constitutional court confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed July 30 election victory on Friday, dismissing an opposition challenge that had held up his inauguration.In a...

Six pupils reveal how they were initiated into witchcraft

Six pupils (one male and five females) who are alleged to be witches and wizard, have revealed how they were initiated into witchcraft.The oldest...

Over 100 migrants force entry into North African Spanish enclave

Spanish police have said more than 100 African migrants managed to force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco when they...

Zambian fined GH 90,000 for trafficking ephedrine

An Accra High Criminal Court has convicted a Zambian businesswoman Matildah Nkole Kangombe for trafficking precursor chemical in her luggage at the Kotoka International...

Melania Trump to visit Africa

US First Lady Melania Trump will travel to Africa later this year, although it is not clear where or when she plans on visiting...

South Africa opens Zuma corruption inquiry

A public inquiry in South Africa has started investigating alleged corruption by ex-President Jacob Zuma.The inquiry is looking into "state capture", where the wealthy...

Angolans embrace better life with Chinese social housing project

The flagship 3.5-billion-dollar Kilamba New City project, by China’s CITIC Construction, has converted a backward rural area into a modern satellite town in the Angolan capital...

Funerals are becoming one last extravagant display of wealth

Live lavishly, go out extravagantly.For many of the rich and powerful, funerals are becoming the final opportunity to flaunt immense wealth, competing with weddings...

Nigerian girls win Silicon Valley contest for app that spots fake drugs

Five months ago Jessica Osita had never used a computer, sent an email or even browsed the internet, yet she is part of a...

Tragedy in Sudan as over 20 primary school children drown

Over 20 people including primary school children and a female hospital employee perished on Wednesday when a boat carrying more than 40 people sank...

Man charged for refusing to pay prostitute

A young man has been charged in court after allegedly refusing to pay a prostitute after engaging in three hot rounds of intercourse.The 28-year-old...

Man sneaks into hospital ward to make love with sick wife

A Zimbabwean man who reportedly sneaked into his sick wife’s hospital ward to make love to her is currently in trouble.The man, a prominent...

Photos: Housewife beheads husband, buries him in their bedroom

Ugandan police have arrested one Harriet Nassali, a housewife, for allegedly beheading her husband, Siraje Kavuma, and digging a grave in their matrimonial bedroom...