Young women and girls in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest informal settlements, are writing their street harassment experiences on roads and canvasses to highlight the damaging nature of sexual harassment. Warning: Some readers may find words part of this article distressing Zubeida Yusuf has lived in Kibera, in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, all her life, and […]
When my wife and I met nearly eight years ago, we had both recently graduated and were working long, late shifts in the service industry. She was co-managing a late-night bar and I worked in a celebrity chef restaurant where the only thing the celebrity contributed was his name. After a late shift I would […]
A Russian billionaire was killed in a road collision while walking his dog in England last week, it has been confirmed. Surrey Police released a statement on Thursday confirming that Dmitry Obretetskiy, 49, died on November 30, following an incident in Oxshott, a village near London, on November 25. Obretetskiy, the latest in a series of […]
According to his family, he was surrounded by loved ones and passed away peacefully on Saturday. “It is with sorrow that the Bonnke Family would like to announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on December 7, 2019.” Bonnke preached to […]
Desperate to reclaim his farmland from a gang of invading monkeys, a farmer in Karnataka, India decided to pain his dog to look like a tiger in the hopes that it would scare the monkeys away. Srikant Gowda, a farmer from Karnataka’s Shivamogga region, recently made international news headlines after it was reported that he […]
Our online data is already monetized by several technology giants, but one Japanese IT company thinks real-life data could be monetized as well, and it’s willing to pay people to have their everyday life video-recorded and sold to various businesses. Last month, Tokyo-based Plasma.inc made national news headlines for inviting people to take part in […]
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency says it has arrested 23 people undergoing training in internet fraud scams in a remote village in the south of the country. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the suspects – aged between 19 and 35 – were being trained on how to carry out romance and trading scams, as […]
A clergyman identified as Pastor Benjamin Akinsanya of the Life House Ministry, Ojo, Lagos, has been arrested with two others, for allegedly sponsoring suspected assassins in an attempt to kill a competitor, a female pastor identified as Janet Ogunsola over alleged spiritual popularity tussle. Trouble started in October, 2019 when the suspects invaded the residence […]
Mama Gee born Elizabeth Togbor who recently had a turf war with the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is back but this time round, she is now a pregnancy medicine expert. In her last video posted on Instagram, Mama Gee told her customers to keep calm. She assured them that she was going to bounce […]
Amnesty International Ghana has started a campaign to end sexual harassment and violence on university campuses. In line with the campaign, the organisation, in collaboration with the Australian High Commission and the French Embassy, has trained 75 students from some selected universities in Accra as part of efforts to find lasting solutions to the incidence […]
Social media is buzzing over the recent pictures trending several hours ago. A Kenya University graduate of (Makerere University) shared a picture of one of her lecturers giving her “mouthaction” in his office. She shared the photos on Facebook and people have been venting their opinion since then. The beautiful lady is a graduate student […]
At 29 years of age, George Lazenby is the youngest man to play James Bond in 1969. After this, the actor claims it made him an instant hit with the ladies. Now at age 80, he told The Herald Sun that he has likely slept with more than a thousand women in his time, adding: […]
