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Photos: Before & after make-up photos of a bride

The power of make-up transformation! Here are some before and after make-up photos that allegedly made an attempt to crash the net today. With the...

Nigeria grazing ban to stop deadly cattle wars

Nigeria has implemented a controversial ban on cattle grazing they say will bring peace to the area, but opponents have decried as a recipe...

Women ‘won’t have equality’ for 100 years – World Economic Forum

The equality gap between men and women would take 100 years to close at its current rate, an economic monitoring group has suggested. It is...

Mugabe wants return of death penalty to cure rising murder cases

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has made a case for the return of death sentence onto the law books. Mugabe cited the increasing rate of murder...

Tanzania burns 6,400 chickens smuggled from Kenya

An animal rights group in Tanzania has criticised the burning of more than 6,400 live chickens illegally smuggled from Kenya to curb the outbreak...

Liberia Court halts presidential run-off

Liberia’s Supreme Court has ordered preparations for Tuesday’s presidential run-off to be halted amid allegations of fraud in the first round. Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph...

Egyptian lawyer says raping women who wear ripped jeans is a man's 'national duty'

An Egyptian lawyer has come under attack after stating that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped. Nabih al-Wahsh said that if a woman...

NYC attack suspect charged with terrorism

An Uzbek immigrant has been charged by US prosecutors with causing the deaths of at least eight people in New York by mowing them...

Nigeria's growing taste for haute cuisine

As more chefs start serving Nigerian food in expensive restaurants, Ijeoma Ndukwe asks if Nigerians will ever consider paying a lot of money for...

Kenya upgrades security for top judges after attack

Kenya Chief Justice, David Maraga, on Wednesday clarified a news report that said the government had refused to beef up security for Supreme Court...

Photos: Married lovers dead after sex in a car

Few days ago, we brought you reports about the lovers who were found dead inside a vehicle while having sex, in the Ogba area...

Kenya election: Raila Odinga rejects 'sham' repeat vote

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has rejected the results of the re-run presidential election that saw Uhuru Kenyatta gaining a second term. Mr. Odinga called...

Cameroon Anglophone crisis forces thousands to flee into Nigeria

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, had disclosed that thousands of Cameroonians from the restive Anglophone region continue to flee into neighbouring Nigeria. UNHCR said on Tuesday...

'They used technology to turn me into a bloody dictator' – Faure reacts

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has bemoaned the use of social media to portray him in a bad light as thousands of opposition supporters call...

Cameroon jails Prez Biya critic for 25 years

Amnesty International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison. Aboubakar Siddiki was...

Buhari fires govt secretary, spy chief over corruption

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has fired two top officials of his administration for their respective roles in two separate cases of corruption. The two officials...

Kenya election: Kenyatta re-elected in disputed poll

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared the winner of a controversial re-run of the presidential election. He won 98% of the vote with the...

Trump rages at Clinton and Russia inquiry

US President Donald Trump has launched a Twitter tirade about the "guilt" of Hillary Clinton and the opposition Democratic Party. His Sunday morning outburst came...

Al-Shabaab behind new deadly twin car bomb attack in Mogadishu

Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab have claimed a deadly car bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday. A Somali journalist who specializes in reporting...

Barack Obama called for Jury Duty in Illinois

Former US president Barack Obama has been summoned for jury duty in the state of Illinois and is planning to serve, a court official...

George Weah’s visit to TB Joshua ahead of run-off

Ahead of Liberia’s presidential run-off on November 7, 2017, the leading contender, George Weah is beginning to attract bigwigs boosting his chances of inching...

Ghana Police arrest 26 Togolese for staging unlawful protest

The police in Accra have arrested 26 Togolese nationals for planning to stage an unlawful demonstration over the political situation in their country. The suspects...

What Nigeria needs to be great again

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye popularly called Daddy G.O, has revealed what he believes Nigeria needs...

HIV-positive Italian jailed for infecting 30 women

An Italian accountant has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30 women with HIV. Valentino Talluto is said to have had unprotected sex...

Burundi leaves International Criminal Court amid row

Burundi has become the first country to withdraw its membership from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It accused the ICC of deliberately targeting Africans for...

How BBC reported defilement of 4-year-old Ghanaian girl

Ghana's inspector general of police has ordered an investigation into the alleged rape of a four-year-old girl after national outrage over the case. The parents...

France sentences Equatorial Guinea VP

A French court has handed down a three-year suspended jail term to Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorin Obiang for corruption. The 48-year-old, known for his...

Photos: Mad woman names popular pastor as baby-daddy

A mentally deranged woman identified as Mary, with a one-year-old baby, has named an Oyo pastor as her baby’s father as she provided pictures...

Kenya’s election body postpones vote in four counties citing insecurity

Kenya’s election body has postponed voting in four counties to Saturday, October 28. The main reason for the move was due to insecurity in the...

Thai king cremated a year after his death

The funeral cremation ceremony for Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej has started in Bangkok, with hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets to...

Man stoned to death for defiling girl, 6

A South African man has been stoned to death by a mob after they allegedly caught him raping a six-year-old girl. The unnamed man was killed...

Kenya election set to go ahead after court no-show

Kenya's controversial presidential election will go ahead as planned on Thursday after the Supreme Court couldn't rule on a challenge because not enough justices...

Clinton team ‘funded’ Trump dirty dossier

US President Donald Trump has seized on reports that Hillary Clinton's team bankrolled a sleazy dossier of allegations linking him to Russia. Unfounded claims that...

U.S. worried over Togo’s excessive use of force on protesters

The United States says it is concerned about the increasingly deteriorating political situation in Togo. The use of excessive force by security forces on...

Top US Republicans lambast Trump

In a surprise move, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake has said he will not run for re-election, citing "outrageous and undignified" behavior from the White...

Togo cancels international conference amid anti-government protests

The Togolese government has cancelled the Francophonie ministerial conference scheduled to be held in the capital Lome in November. The cancellation comes amid opposition protests...

Xi Jinping ‘most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong’

China's ruling Communist Party has voted to enshrine Xi Jinping's name and ideology in its constitution, elevating him to the level of founder Mao...

Why Zimbabwe has a ‘Minister of WhatsApp’

A spoof government notice hit social media as soon as President Robert Mugabe announced he had set up a new ministry responsible for Cyber...

Odinga’s sister to be charged over Kisumu protest

Kenya’s chief prosecutor has ordered that opposition leader Raila Odinga’s sister should immediately be charged with inciting violence against the election commission. Ms Odinga, a...

Soldier’s widow: Trump ‘made me cry’

Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, confirmed a congresswoman's earlier comments that President Trump had said her husband "knew what he...