AFRICA

Founded some generations ago in 1961, the Legio Maria group of Christians believe in a toothless journey to Heaven. The religion with most of its members being in East Africa requires believers to remove their lower six teeth to gain a ticket to heaven. Just as the ancient Jews were …

A couple who had been married for seven years and had two children hit a snag when the husband divorced his wife and married his housekeeper. Because of this, the wife decided to take her husband to court to try to make up with him. The wife says she has …

Okpako, the head of the Igbudu Market in the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, died on top of his wife’s salesgirl. The Nation says that Okpako died on July 4 at a hotel (name not given) at Odibo Extension in the Igbudu neighborhood of Warri. A security …

A speeding driver has killed a female student of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), Adama Abdulrahman.   The accident occurred on Wednesday morning, January 18, 2023, at Angwan Lambu area of Keffi, a students’ community.   Eyewitness report indicates that the driver of the vehicle, who was on top speed, rammed …

Tech giant, Microsoft is reportedly set to fire nearly 11,000 employees this week amid the global economic slowdown.   According to Sky News, the company is “finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce during a global economic slowdown”.   The company’s contemplating reducing roughly 5 percent of …

A young man in Nigeria has been detained by the police after using a fake alert to purchase N1 million worth of goods. The young man was said to have been scamming people for a long time without ever being caught, but this time he was caught in the market …

The head of Ethiopia’s Supreme Court, Meaza Ashenafi, and her deputy, Solomon Areda, have resigned. According to BBC.com report, the two did not give any reason for their resignation. Judge Meaza, was appointed Supreme Court president in 2018 by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s …

A man who is devastated has spoken out about how his wife has been having an affair with her pastor. The man said that he loved his wife very much and respected his pastor because he was a man of God. However, he had no idea that his wife was …

  A four-year-old was admitted to hospital after complaining of “colicky abdominal pain” but doctors were shocked to find a bracelet digging holes into his bowels.   His parents said the child had been poorly for two days before visiting the hospital and had been vomiting and constipated.   Upon …

  A Zimbabwean Form 6 school girl identified as Melody Chiputura, has reportedly died after she was bitten by a black mamba while in class.   The Herald newspaper reported that the 17-year-old student of Rushinga High School in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central province, was bitten by the snake as she returned to class after …