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12-year-old boy kills land lady to get initiated into cult group

A 12-year-old boy has allegedly robbed and killed his landlady at Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State. According to the boy, he...

Court allows secret Zuma no-confidence vote

South Africa’s highest court has ruled that a vote of no-confidence against President Jacob Zuma can be held in secret. The constitutional court said that...

Angolan capital ‘most expensive city’

Luanda, the capital of Angola, has regained top spot as the world’s most expensive city for expats, pushing Hong Kong back into second place. The...

‘My kids suffer a lot of backlash because of my profession’ – Ramsey Noah reveals

Veteran Nollywood actor and filmmaker,  Ramsey Noah, has revealed that his kids suffer a lot of backlash because of his profession as a movie...

Ghanaian pleads guilty to making bomb threat at US Uni

A Ghanaian who was arrested in April after telling his date that he was a terrorist and would blow up her University of Massachusetts...

(Photos) Pastor prays for thief caught stealing in church

Instead of beating or handing over a thief to the police, Baptist church members in Warri, Delta state laid their hands on him and...

‘Jealous’ 12-year-old pours acid on classmate over good grades

This reportedly happened in a yet-to-be identified school in Lagos. A 12-year-old boy almost killed a classmate with acid because she surpassed his initial...

Photos: Tonto Dikeh dressed like a man to son’s school

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh showed up at her son’s school dressed up as a man for father’s day celebration. Sharing photos and videos from the...

Man beats up wife for denying him early morning sex

A man allegedly beat up his wife for denying him early morning sex. According to lawyer and human right activist, Emeka Ugwuonye, the woman refused...

Ghanaian man arrested in Canada for selling rice as iPhones

Ghanaian-Canadian man has been arrested for allegedly defrauding two clients by selling packaged rice to them as an iPhone. City News.ca reports that Andrew Boateng...

7-storey building collapses in Kenyan capital, 15 people missing

15 people are reported missing after a seven-storey building in Kenya’s capital Nairobi collapsed early Tuesday morning. The building located in Kware Pipeline, Embakasi in...

South African girl in court for killing alleged rapist

A 17-year-old girl, who handed herself in to South African police, is expected to appear in court, accused of killing a man who allegedly...

Kenya’s mobile internet beats the United States for speed

Kenya has the world’s 14th-fastest mobile internet speed, according to a report from the content delivery network Akamai, which collects data from more 130 countries. At 13.7...

DR Congo jailbreak frees 900 inmates

Eleven people were killed when militants attacked a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo and freed more than 900 inmates, officials say. The governor...

Mugabe sacks Zimbabwe’s chief prosecutor

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has sacked the country's chief prosecutor, Johannes Tomana, after a tribunal found him guilty of misconduct and incompetence. Local media say...

Soldier sentenced to death for killing Boko Haram suspect

The Army General Court Martial in Borno State today sentenced a soldier, Lance Corporal Hillary Joel, to death for killing a suspected Boko Haram...

South Sudan president declines to attend summit on his country’s situation

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has declined the invitation to the Extra-Ordinary summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) trade bloc to be...

Witch doctors are decapitating BALD men for black magic

Bald people have become the latest targets of witchdoctors in Mozambique, police chiefs say. Police say the body parts and heads of bald men are...

Zambia deports Chinese illegal miners

Thirty-one Chinese nationals, held for illegal mining in Zambia, have been deported. China said Zambia had provided insufficient evidence to justify the arrests. It said one...

South Africa falls into recession

South Africa has fallen into recession for the first time in eight years after economic growth shrank by 0.7% between January and March. The downturn,...

Cameroon: About 30 anti-Boko Haram soldiers arrested over bonus protests

About thirty Cameroonian soldiers engaged in the fight against insurgent group, Boko Haram, have been arrested and sent to the capital, Yaounde. The Ministry of...

Togolese President is new ECOWAS chairperson

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has been named the new chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Liberia’s capital Monrovia. He takes...

ANC calls for investigation into Zuma corruption allegation

South Africa's ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma's family and...

20-year-boy kidnap’s father

A 20 year old boy,  Ibrahim Aliyu Babatunde, who worked with others to kidnap his father has been arrested and paraded alongside others by the Oyo...

ANC calls for Zuma corruption probe

South Africa’s ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma’s family and...

Liberia’s former leader’s ex-wife charged with torture

The ex-wife of Liberia's former president has been charged with torture, the Metropolitan Police said. Agnes Reeves Taylor, who was married to Charles Taylor, is...

Your turn to lead will come – Mugabe tells rivals

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, 93, has called on leaders vying to succeed him to keep their ambitions in check, saying their chance to lead...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to woo the youth vote

Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has begun a series of rallies across the country in a bid to win the support of young people...

John Mahama blasts Trump

Ghana's former President John Mahama has called the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change...

Militants burn down school, kill teacher in Kenya

Suspected al-Shabab militants killed a teacher and abducted another as they burned down a school late Wednesday in northeastern Kenya. The Kenyan MP from the...

40 migrants die of thirst in Sahara desert

More than 40 West African migrants died in the Sahara desert this week after their truck broke down in arid northern Niger, the Red...

Kenya opens first railway for a century

Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early. President Uhuru Kenyatta said during...

‘Last African dinosaur’ discovered in Moroccan mine

A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate...

Search for children abducted from school in Nigeria

Nigerian police are searching for six children abducted from their school on the outskirts of the main city, Lagos. The abductors freed four other children...

Jacob Zuma ‘plans second home in Dubai’

South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media. The reports...

Girl-14 attempts to kill master with rat poison

A 14-year-old maid allegedly tried to poison her master because she was rebuked. Mr. Nasiru Akinlosotu, 63, a former medicine store operator escaped death...

Emails reveal Zuma ‘plans second home in Dubai’

South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media. The reports suggest deepening...

PHOTOS: Ghana marks AU Day

Today Thursday, May 25, 2017 is the 54th African Union (AU) Day and Ghana joins the rest of the continent in commemorating the day. AU...

Today marks AU Day

The youth are the centre of focus today as the continent marks the 54th African Union (AU) Day with ceremonies in member countries and...

‘Work harder’ – Nigerian civil servants told

Nigeria's acting President Yemi Osinbajo has extolled the virtues of hard work, while addressing civil servants. Mr Osinbajo, who is standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari,...