Faith Nyasuguta Spiros Richard Hagabimana is going door-to-door in working-class neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Athens in an election campaign that could see him become Greece’s first Black MP. It is quite a journey for Hagabimana, who some eight years ago was jailed in his native land Burundi for refusing to open fire on anti-government […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Ghanaian social media influencer has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the US over allegations of swindling over $2 million from older, single American men and women in a twisted lonely hearts scam, federal prosecutors said Monday. In a statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) indicated that Mona Montrage,30,had been […]
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Faith Nyasuguta WhatsApp has introduced a new security feature that allows you to keep your sensitive chats private. The ‘Chat Lock’ feature will let users protect their ‘most intimate conversations behind one more layer of security’. The feature works by locking conversations with a password and putting them in a separate folder. When someone messages you […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Nigerian musician Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer, Lagos state police said on Monday. An order was made for the arrest of Kuti, a Grammy-nominated saxophonist and singer, on Saturday after a viral video showed him on a road, shouting and […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A 27-year-old Nigerian chef Hilda Baci has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest Cooking time held by an individual. The Chef who runs a restaurant in Nigeria dubbed My Food by Hilda has broken the world record after cooking for over 88 hours non-stop. The record was previously held by chef Lata […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Human rights organizations and parents are mounting pressure on the South African government to get rid of pit latrines in schools. It’s estimated that this highly unsafe and undignified form of sanitation is used in over 3,000 schools in rural areas countrywide. Especially for small children, like those at Jupiter preschool in Limpopo […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Popular Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o, is making headlines with her latest look: a bold, bald head. The 40-year-old Oscar winner took to Instagram to debut her fresh new look, and fans were stunned by her daring transformation. Nyong’o has also been seen in public rocking her new bald head with confidence and grace. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria has over 52,446 inmates awaiting trial and 3,298 on death row currently in correctional centres across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT). These huge numbers come amid complaints of delayed justice, For years, rights activists have continued to complain of prison congestion caused by convicts on death row and people […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A local newspaper report now shows that Namibian prison authorities have prohibited recruitment of persons with visible tattoos in a bid to salvage the image of prisons. The measure is being taken to safeguard the image of the prisons, as there have been concerns that certain tattoos worn by prison officers may be […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The UK’s highest court ruled Wednesday it was too late for people in Nigeria’s Niger delta region to lodge pollution claims against oil giant Shell after a huge oil spill over a decade ago. According to the Supreme Court, said its five judges “unanimously” rejected an appeal over the 2011 spill, upholding prior […]
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