Apartheid still lives in South Africa as white church bars blacks during Sunday service
A South Africa’s Church has barred blacks from attending service as the church on Sunday disallowed two black journalists from entering. The Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk church in Orania, told the…
Boko Haram guns down 8 soldiers, injures 18 in bloody battle
Eight Chadian soldiers were killed in fierce fighting with Boko Haram insurgents at the weekend on islands on Lake Chad, which borders four countries on the edge of the Sahara,…
Please, don’t go, South Africa community tells Nigerians
“They have told us not to worry about the quit notice but we are worried that it was given in the first place”, Oby Okezie, a Nigerian woman resident in…
Facebook launches campaign to fight online extremism
US social media giant Facebook launched a campaign in Britain on Friday to counter the spread of online extremism following warnings from Prime Minister Theresa May after four terror attacks…
140 perish in tanker inferno, fire sparked by a passer-by lighting a cigarette
A lorry carrying fuel has burst into flames near the Pakistani city of Ahmedpur East, killing at least 140 people, local officials say. Villagers had gathered, reportedly to collect fuel…
Court okays secret ballot no-confidence vote against Zuma, but…
South Africa’s top court ruled on Thursday that secret ballots may be held for motions of no confidence in parliament, a potential blow to the tenure of beleaguered President Jacob…
Nigerian, in US, pleads guilty to global email scam, risks 20 years jail term
A Nigerian man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to taking part in email scams attempting to defraud thousands of victims around the world of millions of dollars, U.S. prosecutors said. According…
2,000 migrants drown in the Mediterranean in six months
The UN’s refugee agency has confirmed that nearly 2,000 people drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean this year. Celebrating the World Refugee Day on Tuesday, the agency released a catalogue…
Boy stabbed to death after fatal threesome
The police have confirmed that a threesome in Park Slope spiraled into a deadly attack with bats and knives after one of the participants began filming the sexcapade. The Brooklyn…
Senior Barclays bankers charged with fraud over credit crunch fundraising
Four former Barclays executives could face lengthy jail sentences after the Serious Fraud Office charged them and the bank with fraud over the way Barclays raised billions of pounds from…