Kenyan woman cherishes the good life but is afraid of death, poverty and illness

Consumer Insight research Manager Ruth Ruigu releases a report that reveals the trends among modern Kenyan women at Gracia Garden hotel on April 30, 2015.

Money and marital bliss rank highest on the list of what the modern Kenyan woman desires, according to a new study by Consumer Insight.

Nigeria: Akwa-Ibom residents cautioned against consumption of Pomo

Akwa Ibom State citizens and residents have been warned against patronizing and consuming the skin meat "Kpomo" which is said to be poisonous and is being imported into the state by yet to be identified persons.

Bruce Jenner hailed for coming out as transgender

Reality TV star Bruce Jenner won praise Saturday from celebrities and activists for revealing he is transitioning from male to female, ending long-running speculation he identifies as a woman.

In a highly anticipated, two-hour television interview aired Friday — hailed by transgender rights’ campaigners and his own Kardashian-linked family the 65-year-old said he had wrestled with his sexual identity since he was a kid.

Nigeria: Court okays OBJ's book, My Watch, for release

Goodnews as a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja, has ordered the release of former President Obasanjo’s book: My Watch, which had been  in the custody of the Nigerian Customs Service.

South Africa: Zuma to blame for attacks on statues - AfriForum

Afrikaner civil rights group AfriForum on Monday has said that  President Jacob Zuma is to blame for the defacement of statues that have occurred across the country.
  
The group said Zuma’s statement, that all of the country’s problems had originated with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, was the catalyst for what has happened to the statues.

What a lovely sight! happy Nori

Kim Kardashian and  husband Kanye West looked like one happy family as they stepped out in Armenia on Sunday evening, along with their one-year-old daughter, North.

The couple swung the little girl through the air following dinner and the adorable child, who is affectionately known as Nori, whooped in delight and giggled as they did so.

The family   enjoyed their last night out in Armenia as a group, following their tour of the country.

Nigeria: Ajimobi appoints 9ice as Special Adviser

Nigerian musician Abolore Akande, popularly known as 9ice, has been appointed as the Special Adviser to the governor of Oyo state, Abiola Ajimobi, who is seeking a re-election on Saturday.

After Bollywood and Nollywood, Uganda brings ‘Wakaliwood’

It’s a searing hot day, and a group of commandos are attempting a daring prison break. “Stop, get them!” General Placdo, a drunkard and an invincible Kung Fu master in khaki fatigues, shouts in the local Luganda language.

Nigeria: Pastor Chris Finally Opens Up, Why My Wife Is Divorcing Me

Founder of Believers Love World Ministry aka Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has finally spoken on the divorce suit filed against him by his wife after a long time of silence on the issue.

Nigeria: Father who tortured boys says it’s devil’s handiwork

A man,Mr. Seun Odebunmi, father of Damilare and Michael, two children rescued by residents of Owutu in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Nigeria, after suffering severe abuse in the hands of their father and step-mother, has attributed his actions to devil’s handiwork.

France: Anorexia Crackdown Ban on Fashion Models Who Are Too Thin

France will ban excessively thin models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday.

US: Woman jailed for 20 years in Indiana for aborting her own child

An India - American woman Purvi Patel of Indiana, was arrested, charged and convicted after she aborted her own baby.

India: OMG!!! Woman urinates in in-law’s tea as revenge for interfering in her marriage

A mother in-law in India  was horrified to learn that her daughter in-law contaminated her tea with urine.

Rekha Nagvanshi, 30,  was caught red-handed squatting over the kettle by her mother in-law, who walked into the kitchen and caught her doing it.

UK: Jobless drunk boasts about his 40 kids

 Meet shameless, jobless and alcoholic Mike Holpin, who at 56 says he wants more children, claims he had them by 20 women and admits he would not recognise many of his offspring in the street.

Now engaged again, the three-times married man keeps track of their names with an ever-growing family tree tattooed on his back.

Tiwa Savage having a baby boy

Simi Osomo and Tiwa Savage

Beautiful and talented artiste Tiwa Savage, is heavily pregnant and is set to deliver a baby boy.

The  leading female in the Nigerian entertainment industry and her husband of 16months Tunji 'Teebillz' Balogun announced that they are expecting their first child together on January 1, 2015.

US: Same - sex marriage recognized by Presbyterian Church

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has updated its constitution to recognize same -  sex marriage, bringing the laws of the nation’s eighth largest Protestant denomination  with about 1.75 million member in line with its already accepted practice.

Individual churches will still be able to decline to perform such marriages if they believe them inappropriate, the church said Tuesday.

The General Assembly of the PC(USA), the largest of several U.S. Presbyterian denominations, OK’d the amendment to its Book of Order last year, but the change had to win the approval of a majority of the 171 local governing bodies, or presbyteries, to become official.

The church said Tuesday that the Palisades Presbytery, based in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, had become the 86th local body to approve the amendment.

5 men receive 20 lashes each for installing toilets in their home

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Mosul, announced that its fighters had whipped five men for using flush toilet instead of squat toilet in their homes.

The incident unfolded on Tuesday night. Each of the five men were lashed 20 times. Residents in the city, said that ISIS warned that they would lash anyone who uses a flush toilet in their home.

ISIS also warned residents to refrain from using cellphones, watching TV and chewing gum. Violators will receive 20 lashes for each offense.

Earlier this month, ISIS fighters captured a man and took him as a prisoner to Mosul.The mother of the man, who was determined to see her son, traveled to ISIS headquarters and asked to see him. The terrorists told the mother to rest after her long journey, and offered her food before taking her to her son.

They brought her cups of tea and fed her a meal of cooked meat, rice and soup. At first, she thought that they were kind.

When she was done eating, she asked the terrorists to take her to her son, but they laughed in her face, saying that she just ate him.

The poor woman did not know that the terrorists killed her son and made a meal from his flesh before feeding her.

 Weird!

Zimbabwe: 160 stray dogs shot as measures to curb the spread of rabies

Officials in Bulawayo have shot 160 stray dogs in a campaign to curb the spread of rabies.

The authorities are pressing on with “Operation Tie Up Order”, despite an outcry from animal welfare activists.

Madonna lost part of herself when Lourdes left for college

When Lourdes, 18, left for the University of Michigan, it was “an absolutely devastating experience, I have to say,” Madonna 56, says Tuesday in an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

South Africa: Mob lynched a Zimbabwean woman

An angry mob has lynched a Zimbabwean woman who was wrongly accused of killing a young boy in a shanty town near the South African capital, Pretoria.