AFRICA

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A bachelor of Computer Science student, Kevin from the Federal University of Lafia (Fulafia) has been expelled from the higher learning institution, after sleeping with a lecturer and successfully impregnating her. The university disciplinary board is said to have received the disheartening news of the student impregnating his lecturer with …

In the Mandanga compound of Mongu, a man from Kalabo found his dead wife living with another man. A man, whose name has been kept secret for security reasons, was in Mandanga compound on Sunday, June 19, 2022, to see an old friend. When he got there, he was given …