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Twenty-five-year-old Purity Wanjiru, a reformed commercial s.e.x worker in Nairobi, recounts her time in the streets. She says at one time, she was married and her then-husband, whom she describes as “irresponsible and uncaring” knew about her prostitution but did ...

Meghan Markle claims she’s “too well known” to do normal things with her son Archie, like going to mother and baby classes, it has been claimed. The duchess is currently living in LA with her husband Prince Harry, having moved ...

  A girl who ran away from home following a row with her parents was r*ped and killed after being picked up by a married couple, say police. Chilling CCTV footage shows eight-year-old Victoria (Vika) Teplyakova walking alone next to ...

A man has been charged with murder after allegedly battering his much younger wife with a hammer and smothering her baby after discovering he was not the father. Dennis Chambers, 60, was arrested in relation to the savage attack on ...

A 35-year-old man, Mr Christian Alisigwe from Ihite Azia, Ihiala local government area of Anambra State has killed his four-year-old son. It was gathered that he butchered him with a cutlass. Police authorities, who are working to unravel the reason ...

Kiki Osinbajo, one of the daughters of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has rubbished claim that she owned the N800 Abuja property housing her Glam D’Africa business. Jackson Ude, a former presidential spokesperson had alleged that the multi-million naira building belonged ...

A policeman in Ibadan on Thursday afternoon allegedly shot a 32-year-old businessman, Yemi Ajayi, dead at the Iwo Road interchange, Ibadan, Oyo State. A witness who pledged anonymity told journalists that some policemen drove to the scene of the incident ...

Kazakhstan is facing a deadly “unknown pneumonia” more dangerous than coronavirus, China has claimed. The alert comes as the Kazakh authorities have admitted both a “second wave” spike in Covid-19 but also a sharp rise in pneumonia cases. The Kazakh ...

Italy has banned entry to people coming from 13 countries that it said presented an excessive rate of COVID-19 infections. The list compiled by the health ministry comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, ...

Indian police shot dead one of the country’s most wanted gangsters Friday just a day after his dramatic arrest, sparking accusations of a staged extra-judicial killing. Officials said Vikas Dubey, detained for the killing of eight police officers, was shot ...

A Nigerian man has died three weeks after his wedding. The Special Assistant to President Buhari on Youth and Students Affairs, Nasir Adhama who shared the story online, said the deceased died while on his way to Kano on Wednesday. ...

Renowned obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr. Doreen Lugaliki has passed on aged 38. Dr. Lugaliki succumbed to COVID-19 complications on Thursday at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi after being admitted at the facility for two days. The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of the boss of the country’s anti-graft agency, Ibrahim Magu days after he appeared an investigative panel. The Nigerian Government said Magu’s suspension is to “allow for unhindered inquiry” by the panel investigating ...

Police operatives attached to the Special Tactical Squad have arrested a seven-man criminal gang that attacked and robbed three comm​ercial banks in Ondo and Ekiti between 2019 and 2020, killing innocent citizens including six policemen and carting away several millions ...

The Kano State Police Command has threatened to prosecute owners of uncompleted buildings in the state following a rise in case of r.a.p.e, especially in the ancient city. The police had recently disclosed that 33.3 per cent of r.a.p.e cases ...

Tunde Braimoh, the lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency 2 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, is dead. The former chairman of Kosofe Local Government died early Friday, two months to his 60th birthday. Taiwo Fadipe, the chief press secretary to ...

One Mrs Rose Uwaga has been arrested by Abia State police command for allegedly strangling her 83-year-old husband, Alhaji Isa Uwaga, to death in Umuahia. It was gathered that the two aged couple had a disagreement, which degenerated into fisticuffs ...

Chicago foremost lawyer Gal Pissetzky, who is representing Nigerian fraudster, Ramon Abbas Igbalode, better known as Hushpuppi, has said his client is into legitimate businesses and not fraud. Hushpuppi, who was extradited to US from Dubai last week Thursday faces ...

A pregnant Colorado woman has posed for a shocking maternity photoshoot with her pregnant belly covered in ‘thousands’ of bees — despite her own claims that she is allergic. Bethany Karulak-Baker‎ shared the photos in the Beekeeping Basics group on ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today sign into law the revised 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly in June. The Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashr Ahmad, confirmed this on his tweeter handle in Abuja on Thursday. ...

President Jeanine Anez of Bolivia announcing her coronavirus status on Thursday Bolivia’s President Jeanine Anez said on Thursday she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. At least seven ministers, including its health minister, have also tested positive and were ...

The mayor of Seoul, a contender to be South Korean next president and a former human rights lawyer, took his own life a day after he was accused of sexual harassment, authorities said Friday. Park Won-soon, whose body was recovered ...

A Life Camp Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered a 30-year-old man, Yusuf Muazu, to sweep the court premises for three hours for stealing a bowl of food and a cup of cold water. The Police charged Muazu of ...

The fate of over 16,000 Nigerian students in the United States is currently hanging in the balance as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moves to deport foreign students whose schools will switch to online classes due to the ...

Nigeria recorded 499 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing total cases reported in the country to 30,748. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said 12, 546 patients have been discharged upon treatment and recovery. It added that 689 associated ...