Category: Foreign
Sirleaf receives £5m Mo Ibrahim Prize for leadership
Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf described herself as an imperfect leader when she accepted the prestigious $5m Mo Ibrahim Prize for Ac [...]
Prince Williams and wife, Kate name their third child
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Williams and Kate Middleton have announced that they have named their third child and second son, Louis Arth [...]
Sierra-Leone’s president sacks ambassadors and workers above the age of 60
Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio has sacked all political appointees at the country’s foreign missions including ambassadors and information [...]
World’s first total penis, scrotum transplant done by US surgeons
For the first time, a team of US surgeons from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, has managed to transplant the penis and the scrotum from [...]
Meet the Africans on Time magazine ‘100 Most Influential People’s list
Time magazine has released their annual list of 100 Most Influential People and there are six Africans on the 2018 list which is made up of citizens f [...]
Xenophobia: South African mob burns another Nigerian alive
Clement Ebuka Nwaogu has been burnt alive by a mob, in the latest xenophobia attack in South Africa. The Publicity Secretary of the Nigeria Union in S [...]
76 year old Zuma welcomes baby by his 24 year old bride-to-be
Disgraced South Africa’s ex president, Jacob Zuma has welcomed a baby boy by a 24-year -old woman purported to be his bride-to-be, Nonkanyiso Conco. T [...]
Jacob Zuma’s son to be charged with homicide
South African prosecutors will charge former president Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, with homicide, after a 2014 car crash that left one woman dead, a s [...]
Former US first lady Barbara Bush dies at 92
Former US first lady Barbara Bush is dead. She died at the age of 92, triggering an outpouring of praise for the matriarch of a Republican family once [...]
Kenya Airways sacks 86.4% of its Nigerian staff
Kenya Airways over the weekend sacked about 22 of its Nigerian workers, representing 86.4 per cent of its Nigerian workers. In an unprecedented move t [...]