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A police officer from Koromotangi village in Kakamega County, Kenya committed suicide over alleged salary delay. Reports indicate that the officer identified as Abel Kemboi was on Wednesday, January 5, found dead after complaining to friends and relatives that his ...

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has tested positive for coronavirus just days before the start of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON), putting his participation for at least some of the tournament in doubt. Aubameyang has suffered a turbulent few weeks, losing his ...

The People’s Democratic Party has urged Nigerians to use the New Year to rekindle the virtues of love, unity, social justice as well as the quest for good governance in the country. This is as the party noted that surviving ...

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was released from prison on Friday nearly five years after being convicted of corruption, fuelling debate over whether she would play any role ahead of a March presidential election. Park, 69, was the country’s ...

  Linda Mabi-Praise, senior pastor of Temple of Praise Women Fellowship Global, Surulere, Lagos has been sentenced to five years imprisonment over N128 million fraud. Mabi-Praise was convicted and sentenced by Justice S.O. Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) in Benue State on Thursday said it recovered three dead bodies of missing young people who went on Christmas picnic at River Buruku in the Buruku Local Government Area of the state. ...

A chemistry professor has been mauled to death in a horrific attack by a rampaging pack of stray dogs. A shocking picture shows the mauled body of Dr Sardana Sleptsova, 53, lying on the snow in the Russian city of ...

The yuletide season turned tragic for a 60-year-old herbalist in Calabar, named Ani Ikoneto, who had his private parts bitten off and eaten by his dog. The man, who lives at 12, Jebbs Street in Calabar South, according to neighbours, ...

Two Afghan brothers have been charged in Germany with murdering their sister, whom they allegedly wanted to punish because of her Western way of life. The men, identified only as Sayed H., 26, and Seyed H., 22, due to Germany’s ...

A new scientific study published last week has identified the brain region linked to genital touch in women, and found that it was more developed in volunteers who reported having more s3x. The research involved stimulating the clitorises of 20 ...

Amerca’s first vitro fertilisation (IVF) baby, Elizabeth Carr who was born on 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, Virginia, is 40 years old today. At a point she was ignorantly described as “test tube” baby. Her birth then, recalled New York ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced plans to embark on nationwide protests on January 27, 2022, to protest against moves by the Nigerian government to increase fuel prices. This was contained in a letter issued by the General Secretary ...

An injection made using stem cells from ground-up milk teeth is being touted as a cure for impotence. A jab each side of the todger helped 37 out of 38 men rediscover their mojo. Researchers said the stem cells — ...

The teenager suspected of scaling Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow to try and “assassinate the Queen” on Christmas Day has been pictured for the first time. Jaswant Singh Chail, 19, posted a video on Christmas Day of a hooded ...

The Ghana Police Service have warned religious leaders to desist from New Year prophecies of “harm, danger and death” and others that could “create tension and panic” in the Anglophone West African country in the Year 2022. In many West ...

Ayo Adun, the founder and senior pastor of Millennium Christian Ministry (MCM), one of the biggest churches in Lokoja, Kogi State is dead. Adun died on Sunday, 26 December 2021, five months after his car rammed into a stationary trailer ...

The funeral of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon who died on Sunday has been set on New Year’s day in Cape Town’s St George the Martyr cathedral. Thabo Makgoba, the Archbishop of Cape Town, announced on Monday that the funeral ...

A 73-year-old man is being held by the police for killing his son at their home in Cherangany’s Chepsiro location, Trans-Nzoia, Kenya on Sunday evening. James Tarus is said to have strangled his 31-year-old son to death for disrupting his ...

The United Arab Emirates issued its first civil marriage license for a non-Muslim couple, state media reported Monday, as the Gulf country seeks to keep its edge over regional competitors. The UAE — where foreigners make up 90 per cent ...

A Ghanaian returnee simply identified as Osas is on the run after allegedly killing his girlfriend Elohor Oniorosa on Christmas Eve in what is suspected to be ritual killing in Benin, Edo State. The incident was said to have happened ...

  For centuries, there have been heated debates over the sources of economic growth in developing economies and why some countries reflect strong economic growth compared to others. The hypotheses have often centred around crude oil, agriculture, revenues, private capital, bubbling ...

The Imo State government has apologised to Anglican church for invading their sunday service to arrest Chief Uche Nwosu, son-in-law of former governor of the state, Senator Rochas Okorocha. The government however said it was aware of the futile efforts ...

Uche Nwosu a son-in-law to former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has been released. According to him, the police never invited him before whisking him away during a church service at his hometown, Eziama Obieri in the Nkwerre Local ...

A ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Sapele, Delta State, identified as Peter Agboghoroma, popularly known as Okponughari, is dead. Punch Metro, however, gathered that some family members have been insinuating that he was poisoned at a social ...

A bus loaded with passengers has plunged into a canal at the Oworonshoki area of Lagos State. It was learnt that some of the passengers were injured in the incident that happened on Monday. It was also gathered that the ...