AFRICA

Zimbabwe has secured two loans of more than $42.5m (£35.3m) from India to boost the generation of electricity in the country, the state-run Herald newspaper reports. The government announced that the finance minister had concluded the loan agreements in the last few months, the paper says. But the $23m and $19.5m …

At least 60 people have been killed and 70 injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Tanzania, police say. Pictures posted online show flaming wreckage scattered over a wide area and charred bodies lying on the ground. Police said people were trying to recover fuel from the vehicle, which had …

Nigerian cross-dresser, Okuneye Idris Olarenwaju, popularly known as Bobrisky, has reacted to the arrest of a notorious Rivers criminal, bearing the same stage name as him, Bobrisky. DAILY POST reported on Thursday that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state placed a N30 million bounty to find Bobrisky. The popular cross-dresser, …

Popular Afro beats singer and songwriter, Augustine Kelechi, also known as Tekno, has released a music video titled “Agege” and featuring Zanku pioneer, Zlatan. Despite the ongoing investigations as regards the controversial music video, the video shows scenes of four strippers’ pole-dancing in a moving van on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link …

Abubakar Tsav, a former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, has called for calm in the ongoing face-off between the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force. The two security agencies have been at loggerheads over the killings of some cops in Taraba State earlier in the week. Tsav, a …

Sorrow and anguish have continued to prevail at the home of the Nwawuike family in Ikorodu, an outskirt in Lagos State following the mysterious disappearance of their daughter, Cynthia Amarachi, 25, after she boarded a vehicle from Ibadan to Lagos to spend the weekend with her parents on March 15, …

Ten Turkish sailors who were kidnapped last month off the coast of West Africa have been released, according to reports in Turkish state media. The 10 men were bound for Ivory Coast aboard a container ship when the vessel was intercepted by pirates off the coast of Nigeria on 16 …

Ghana and Angola have waived entry visa requirements for their nationals who are holders of valid diplomatic and service passports. Holders of these passports may transit through and stay in the territory of either Ghana and Angola for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days from the date of first …

In a horrifying incident in India, a man addicted to gambling and alcohol bet his wife after running out of money and allowed his friends to gang rape her after losing the stake. The incident took place in Jaunpur district and after the incident; the victim went to court when …

David Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel, has placed curses on the killers of Jeremiah Omolewa, a resident pastor of the church in Romi New Extension, a suburb of Kaduna. Omolewa was travelling with his wife and son to Abuja on Sunday when …