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Police operatives have arrested a man for selling his baby daughter online for £6,800 to pay off his gambling debts. Named only as Jiang, the heartless father sold the one-year-old to a couple after racking up debts of more than 60,000 Yuan (£6,798), according to reports in China. He flew her more than 1,150 miles away from their home in Guiyang, Guizhou province, last November after lying to his wife about needing to stay with…

A deserted shop in the devastated Mozambican city of Beira has become a place of refuge for dozens of families displaced by a deadly cyclone, which has caused flooding and rendered many areas inaccessible. More than 1,000 are feared to have died in the cyclone after it smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores were also killed in neighbouring Zimbabwe. In front of Beira’s city council in the modest neighbourhood of Praia Nova, locals have…

The beaten candidate in last month’s Nigerian presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday lodged a legal challenge to the official result, his lawyer said. Muhammadu Buhari, 76, was re-elected president after a delayed poll that angered voters and raised political temperatures, but the opposition immediately vowed to challenge the “sham” result. It was the second victory at the ballot box for Buhari, a one-time military ruler who was first elected in 2015 to lead Africa’s…

Romeo Beckham, the second son of famous couple David and Victoria Beckham is reportedly dating English actress and model, Millie Bobby Brown. The 16-year-old tennis hopeful is said to have met the ‘Stranger Things‘ actress, 15, at Unicef’s 70th-anniversary gala in 2016, and immediately the pair got attached to each other. Now the pair are reported to have started dating, with a source telling The Sun it’s ‘early days’ for the duo and Victoria Beckham is a fan of Millie.  The…

The recent decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to exclude the textile sector from the forex market will put over N5 trillion worth of investments in jeopardy, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has warned. Besides the threat posed on the N5 trillion investments the chamber equally raised the alarm that an estimated 500,000 jobs may also be wiped off. The chamber in a document titled ‘‘Comments on CBN Forex Exclusion…

A Nigerian man with the handle, @LegitChidi, has called for the bombing of Abuja Central Mosque after the New Zealand shootings which left over 50 people dead. The Nigerian man called for the bombing of Abuja Central Mosque, after Dr Joe Abah, made a post concerning the the New Zealand mosque shootings, calling on a condemnation of “all forms of extremism: religious, racial, ideological or political.” However many social media users condemned the attack in New…

An 8-year-old Nigerian homeless refugee child, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, was crowned a New York chess champion for his age group last weekend. Tanitoluwa Adewumi who fled Nigeria with his family in 2017 and is now living in a homeless shelter in New York City while his asylum application is pending, won his category at the New York State chess championship. He went undefeated at the state tournament last weekend, outwitting children from elite private schools with…

The heir to the Saudi throne has not attended a series of high-profile ministerial and diplomatic meetings in Saudi Arabia over the last fortnight and is alleged to have been stripped of some of his financial and economic authority, the Guardian has been told. The move to restrict, if only temporarily, the responsibilities of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is understood to have been revealed to a group of senior ministers earlier last week by his…

Nigeria Customs Service has promoted an officer identified as Comptroller Bashir Abubakar of Apapa Area Command to an Assistant Comptroller General (ACG), after he rejected a $420k bribe. The Nigeria Customs Service promoted the officer who rejected the $420K bribe offered by a drug trafficking cartel, to take delivery of 41 smuggled containers of Tramadol. Recall that it was reported last year that the Apapa command of the service intercepted 40x40ft containers of pharmaceutical products…

Shocking reports are emerging of a mass shooting in Holland as Dutch police confirm that several people have been shot in the city of Utrecht. At least one person has died and a number of people injured in a shooting ‘with possible terrorist motive’ in the central Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday morning, local news reports. One or several gunmen opened fire on a tram in the city centre at around 10.45 local time…