No fewer than 100 fake professors have been uncovered in Nigerian universities by the National Universities Commission, NUC. Prof Abubakar Rasheed, the commission’s Executive Secretary, disclosed this in the NUC’s November bulletin. Rasheed said the NUC published the details of the fake professors on its website and also sent the names to the various universities […]
Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe died with $10m (£7.7m) cash in the bank, a legal letter from his daughter quoted by state media says. But he appears not to have left a will, according to the family’s lawyer. Mugabe, who died in September aged 95, was ousted in 2017 after 37 years in power. Separately, […]
75-year-old Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni has stated that he is not tired of holding on to the country’s Presidency after 33 years of being in power. The Ugandan President who got into power on January 29, 1986, disclosed in an open letter published on his Blogspot that he deliberately lost weight by shedding off the […]
Police in Mozambique have reportedly issued a warning that bald men may be attacked for the purposes of witchcraft and rituals associated with local superstitions. The warning comes after two bald men were brutally killed in the south-east African country’s Zambezia province, according to the Agence France Presse (AFP). One of the men had been found with his […]
A Nigerian man, identified as Comrade Mohammed, has suggested that President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, should provide his share of the 2020 budget in cash. According to the entrepreneur, he is not interested in the utilities outlined in the budget because he does not benefit directly from them. “I do […]
Flamboyant Malawian Pastor, Shepherd Bushiri seems to be having issues with the Botswanan government as all branches of his church in the country have been closed down following its deregistration in 2018. This came weeks after the government of Botswana lifted a visa travelling ban imposed on the founder of the Enlightened Christian Gathering church during former president […]
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has awarded an Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs in Nigeria for rejecting bribe. Bashir Abubakar, according to Mr. Buhari, rejected a bribe of $412,000 per container offered him by drug traffickers seeking to bring 40 containers of Tramadol into Nigeria. That amounts to about $16, 480,000. President Buhari, in a statement, described […]
At least 182 Kenyans living in the United States of America illegally were arrested while applying for citizenship to avoid deportation and become eligible for work permits. The figures were released by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an immigration policy that allows those with […]
The ZRP is warning the public from buying meat from unverified sources and dealing with any wildlife products without a licence. On Sunday, November 10, 2019 at about 1900 hours, Police in Victoria Falls arrested 5 men for contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act. 3 suspects were found selling a fresh lion head and skin […]
The Board Chairman of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Mr. Sammi Awuku has extolled youth on the African continent to endeavor to use their creativity and ingenuity for the overall benefit of the continent. According to Mr. Awuku who is also the National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), the youth must focus […]
A Congolese journalist who had been raising awareness about the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed at his home. The army said unidentified attackers raided Papy Mumbere Mahamba’s home in Lwebma, in the north-eastern province of Ituri, killing him, wounding his wife and burning their house down. DR Congo is […]
The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Olufemi Michael Abikoye has said that his country is working closely with Ghanaian officials to deal with the several truckloads of goods that have been grounded at the Seme border between Benin and Nigeria due to a temporary shutdown of Nigeria’s borders. Nigeria partially closed its borders with […]
