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Nigerians On the Run As Military Combats Boko Haram

Kano — Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria's Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian fighter jets on Boko Haram (BH) camps from 15 May. The attacks on BH camps in northern parts of Borno close to the borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon followed the...

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Kenya Now A Country Held For Ransom

Nairobi — Gangs in Kenya Have Realised That Every Family, No Matter How Poor, Will Give Everything It Can to Stay Whole, Sparking a Rising Trend of Kidnappings for Ransom. the Crime, and the Public’s Reaction to It, Have Left Police At Something of a Loss, and Kenyans Scrambling to Stay Safe. You’re alone in your house, in your bed where...

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Wives fight over late Seiso Moyo estate

BULAWAYO South MP Eddie Cross (MDC-T) yesterday revealed there is a serious fight over the estate of the late Agriculture deputy minister Seiso Moyo, who was also in the MDC-T. The fight, he said, was between the deceased's two wives and the reason was that the late Nketa MP had not left a will. Cross made the revelations in the House of...

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Lusaka Polygamist finds wife in bed with another man

A LUSAKA polygamist stunned the Lusaka  Court when he narrated how he caught his pregnant wife in a sex romp with another man in their bed. This was heard before justices Martha Tembo and Kaputo Ng'andwe in a case in which Oliver Mweemba, 33, sued Lukas Lufino, 52, for compensation for adultery. Mweemba told the attentive gallery that on April 30...

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Deputy Minister Murisi Zwizwai faces eviction from his Borrowdale rented house

MEDIA, Information and Publicity Deputy Minister Murisi Zwizwai is facing eviction from his Borrowdale rented house after he failed to pay rentals and utility bills amounting to US$19 318,63. Deputy Minister Zwizwai, who is MDC-T legislator for Harare Central constituency, reportedly failed to pay US$750 monthly rentals from March 2012 to date and the bill now stands at US$10 623. As part...

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DJ Munya's murder case: Suspects demanded US$5,000, Munya's wife had confessed

The kidnapping and murder case which sucked in radio personality DJ Munya (real name Munyaradzi Mlimo) as a suspect has taken a new twist as it emerged that the suspects demanded a ransom US$5,000. These revelations were made by the deceased O'neal Tinashe Magorimbo's father yesterday at Tinashe's funeral wake. The demand was made through a text message directed to the...

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HIV positive Harare man arrested for raping 2 daughters and sodomising son

A 30-year old HIV positive man has appeared in court accused of raping his three children, raising fears he might have infected them with the deadly virus. The alleged rapist is said to have molested his 10 and six-year-old daughters and sodomised his five-year-old son during the period extending from last year to February this year. He denied the charges, saying the...

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Zimbabwe prophet, 34, gets 5-year jail term for stealing car from 60 year old Botswana woman

A Self-styled Zimbabwean prophet and building contractor based in Botswana has been jailed for five years for duping a 60-year-old Botswana woman into coming to Zimbabwe on the pretext of meeting a "high priest" before robbing her of her vehicle. Prophet Aaron Ngirazi (34) had denied theft of motor vehicle charges when he appeared before regional magistrate Mr Noel Mupeiwa but...

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Passengers Stranded At Lagos Airport As Strike Begins

Scores of air passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) embarked on an indefinite strike. The workers, who spoke to our correspondent, said the strike was to press home their demand for the implementation of the salary structure approved by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission. The unions...

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Wife gets 7 years for poisoning hubby a week after marriage

A High Court judge has jailed a 20-year-old Mutoko woman for seven years, after convicting her for poisoning and killing her husband. The couple had just married for a week, but the woman Esther Mapisa claimed in court that the man was sexually molesting her. High court judge Joseph Musakwa convicted Mapisa on murder with actual intent. She had however, denied intentionally killing...

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Robert Mugabe to summon army generals over inflammatory political statements

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has tacitly agreed to summon service chiefs over their recent inflammatory political statements in which they threw afresh their weight behind Zanu-PF, as pressure mounts on him to rein in military commanders ahead of watershed elections later this year. Mugabe is under pressure from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a victim of vicious military verbal attacks, and Sadc leaders...

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Catholic Priest 'caught' on camera performing oral s*x on another man

A Spanish priest has been removed from his job after apparently being busted on camera performing oral s*x on another man. Father Francisco Javier Ruiz was dismissed from his position in the Churra section of the city of Murcia by Bishop of Cartagena Jose Manuel Lorca Planes on Wednesday. It came after footage emerged purportedly showing him in an erotic embrace with...

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Chrispen Sibanda, 23 year old man fatally stabs drinking mate

A 23-year-old Kezi man has been dragged to court for allegations of fatally stabbing a drinking mate with a broken empty beer bottle. Chrispen Sibanda was arraigned before Bulawayo magistrate Witness Mtetwa on charges of murdering 22-year Lungani Nyathi at Venue Cocktail Bar on September 30 last year. The court heard that at around 3pm on the fateful day, Sibanda was drinking...

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Desmond 'The little Bishop' Tutu asked to go goat-skinning

IN the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, the elderly with cotton tuft hair are normally not sent skinning goats when villagers preside over matters of importance. When an elder is sent-goat skinning, it means he has outlived his usefulness and lost his moral compass, for, in the village cotton tuft hair normally comes with knowledge...

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Prophet Makandiwa converts 18,000 sinners in a week

United Family International Church founder and leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa claims to have converted 18,000 sinners in just a week. Prophet Makandiwa is said to be determined to reach lost souls following his recent statement that he is now after pegans as he holds crusades in stadiums countrywide. His spokesperson, Pastor Prime Kufakunesu said, ahead of their crusade in Chiredzi, 18,000 souls...

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Bulawayo woman's privates disappears after sleeping with married man

A 29-year-old Bulawayo woman from Matshobana suburb got the shock of her life when she woke up in the morning and realised that her private parts were missing, it is alleged.Chipo Sibanda reportedly learnt the hard way in the early hours of 29 April when she visited the toilet but could not urinate upon discovering that her vagina had mysteriously...

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Actress Afrocandy To Cast Uche Ogbodo, Cossy Orjiakor, Anita Joseph In An immoral Movie
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