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‘Where in Africa are you from?’ – Buckingham Palace aide resigns over comments to Black charity boss

A Black charity boss who attended an event hosted by Queen Consort Camilla said she was left “traumatized” after a Buckingham Palace aide appeared to push her to answer questions about her ancestry. The questions the aide asked included, “Where in Africa are you from?” According to The Independent, Ngozi …

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Shocking: 4 Siblings Electrocuted Trying To Steal Electrical Transmission Wires

When they tried to steal transmission cables, four siblings were killed by electricity. People cry over this. People were sad when electricity killed these four siblings in Awoja Village, Soroti District, Uganda, on November 28, 2022. Two of the kids died right away, and the other two were seriously hurt …

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Landlord Sacks Tenant For Womanizing

Some landlords are always sticking their noses into the business of their tenants. So, if the tenant is a man, the landlord wants to know who his girlfriend or wife is. When the landlord is very religious, they will not put up with any promiscuity from their tenants. Some landlords …

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Nigeria to abolish English use for first six years of primary education

Nigeria’scabinet, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a National Language Policy for use in all primary schools across Africa’s most populous nation. The major highlight of the policy is that the first six years of basic education should be undertaken in the mother tongue of pupils. Minister of Education, …

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Another Man Stabbed To Death For Sleeping With A Married Woman

Yesterday, a man from Chitungwiza is said to have stabbed and killed a man he caught having sex with his wife. The police said this on their Twitter account. The suspect and his wife ran away after the crime, leaving the victim lying in a pool of blood in an …

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No African team will qualify: Oxford Uni’s research flops as Senegal progress into round of 16

No African nation will advance from the group stage; this was according to a research from the Maths Department at the Oxford University, one which appears to have failed so far. In group A of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Senegal, an African nation, advanced to the round …

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Three people found sitting on ship’s rudder survived an 11-day voyage from Nigeria

The Spanish coast guard has rescued three people who were stowed on top of the rudder of a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria. In a photograph distributed by the coastguard on Monday, the migrants are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker …

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Zambia plans to sell controversial presidential jet

Zambia’s leader has said he plans to sell the presidential jet his predecessor bought in his last months in office in controversial circumstances. Hakainde Hichilema said he wants to recover $193m (£160m) that was spent to buy the Gulfstream 650. “We do not support that extravagance, because we could have …

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South African president faces threat of impeachment over ‘Farmgate’

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a possible impeachment threat over the “Farmgate” scandal. The president has been accused of covering up a $4m (£3.3m) theft from his farm in 2020, including kidnapping and bribing the burglars into silence. A leaked report from an independent panel has found that …

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Sakawa boy beats his girlfriend to death

A 27-year-old suspected internet fraudster, otherwise known as Yahoo boy, Obeta John, has allegedly killed his girlfriend, Idowu Buhari over claims that she refused to remit to him, a proceed of fraud paid into the girl’s account by a victim. The victim, an HND 1 student of Mass Communication, Gateway …

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