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 Share  Share  Tweet The Kenyan authorities have arrested a Ghanaian national who is alleged to have fraudulently obtained $83,000 (£58,490) from a woman in a romance scam. The police’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said a female manager at Tala, a digital lender that issues small loans to Kenyans, met …

The management of the University of Lagos has dismissed two lecturers caught on camera demanding sex from a ”student” in a special BBC report. The lecturers – Dr Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integration Studies, Faculty of Arts, and Dr Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo of the Department of Economics, …

Twitter has deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet in which he threatened to deal with Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand”. President Buhari had in a tweet shared on Tuesday, evoked Nigeria’s civil war experience which was fought between 1967 and 1970, and noted that most of those “misbehaving” by …

A 41-year-old mother of six shocked Kenyans last week when she left her 20-year marriage to “marry” the Holy Spirit. Elizabeth Nalema, a town council officer from Makutano town in West Pokot County, was bound in holy matrimony with the Holy Spirit on Tuesday, May 25, in a ‘lavish’ ceremony …

The Lagos State chapter of the Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC), has cautioned Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the state’s Independent Electoral Commission, (LASIEC) from taking any steps that would lead to the exclusion of its members from the forthcoming local government elections scheduled for July.   The warning …

Kenyan woman Elizabeth Nalem marries Holy Ghost A Kenyan woman, Elizabeth Nalem, has shocked her countrymen by ending her 20-year-marriage to “marry” the Holy Spirit. The mother of six from Makutano town in West Pokot County exchanged wedding vows with Holy Spirit on Tuesday, May 25, in a ‘lavish’ ceremony that attracted …

Prime Minister of Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has emphasized the need to strengthen security cooperation and combat cross-border crime and terrorism with Algeria. Dbeibah expressed during a meeting with Algerian President Abdel Majid Tebboune Libya’s desire to consolidate and develop relations with its neighbouring country in various fields and at …

The political agreement signed in Somalia this past heralds not just a new democratic dawn but also one of equity and inclusivity by raising the quota of women in the formal political space to at least a third of the bicameral federal legislature. With a provision for 30 percentage quota, …

•Nigeria is known to be one of the countries with high rate of insecurity •Insecurity in the country has led to many murders over the years •MyNigeria has listed some gruesome murder cases in Nigeria’s history  Nigeria is known across the globe, to be one of the countries in Africa …

• Chelsea won their second Champions League trophy after beating Manchester City on May 29 • The London side currently has two African players in the persons of Senegal’s Mendy and Hakim Ziyech of Morocco • Chelsea also has two players with African parentage, Rudiger (Sierra Leone) and Kante (Mali) …