Not many women would come out openly to declare that they have no scruples about their husbands taking another wife. Although still single, stunning Nollywood actress, Chukwukere Sarah Ujunwa a.k.a Hon Sarah Martins told Potpourri in a chat that she wouldn’t mind having her husband take another wife. According to her, it is never a taboo for an African man to have many wives. Hear her: “Back in... 

Ancient people in what is now West Africa are believed to have interbred with a previously unknown species of ancient humans some 50,000 years ago. The proof, according to experts, is in the genomes of contemporary West Africans and cannot be found in old bones or DNA. They examined the genetic material of hundreds of individuals from Sierra Leone and Nigeria and discovered “ghost” DNA,... 

Algerian authorities deported 2,852 migrants between February 23 and March 5. The exiles were abandoned in the middle of the desert, several kilometers from the Nigerien border, without water or food. Among them are women and children. They were abandoned in the middle of the desert, under a blazing sun, without water or food. In just 10 days, 2,852 people from sub-Saharan Africa were deported from... 

Reverend Isaac Achi, a Catholic priest, was burnt alive on Sunday in a bungled home invasion at his residence in Kaffin Koro parish in Nigeria’s Niger state, according to a police official. When the armed would-be thieves were unable to gain inside, they chose to set fire to the property, leaving the priest to perish while his aide, Father Collins, nearly escaped with his life, suffering a gunshot... 

Nigerians are weary of corporations marketing their products in the nation with virtually solely white models and voiceovers with British or American accents. According to the Arab broadcaster Al Mayadeen, there will now be a law that only local models and readers will be allowed to participate. When African enterprises sell their products to an African audience, unlike in many Western countries,... 

At least 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, officials said. The violence at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town, in Ondo State, happened during the morning service on Pentecost Sunday in a rare attack in the southwest of the African country. While much of Nigeria has struggled with security... 

Tech behemoth Microsoft is bribing clients in the Middle East and Africa on a massive scale, according to whistleblower Yasser Elabd, a 20-year employee of the firm who published his testimony on Friday on the website Lioness. Elabd claims the company spends more than $200 million annually on bribes and kickback schemes in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Ghana, among other countries. Worse,... 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his country is being penalized for detecting the latest Covid-19 “variant of concern,” dubbed Omicron, urging other nations to lift travel bans imposed amid alarm over the new strain. “Excellent science should be applauded and not punished,” the president said during a state visit to Nigeria on Wednesday, noting that a growing number of countries... 

While many European countries are bending over backwards to grovel and apologize for participating in the African slave trade, no apologies are forthcoming from any of the African nations whose chiefs engaged in the slave trade long before White Europeans ever showed up — and continued to profit off of it well into the 20th century — long after the white nations officially abolished it. Nigerian... 

Twitter declared access to its platform a ‘human right’ on Saturday, prompting conservatives to accuse the firm of hypocrisy after it banned former President Donald Trump and millions of others for violating its terms of service. The social media giant’s statement came as a response to Nigeria’s decision to ban Twitter over the deletion of a tweet from Nigerian President Muhammadu... 

Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum threatening “financial sanctions” on African countries for failing to embrace the LGBTQI+ agenda. The memorandum directs federal agencies to “conduct and expand efforts to combat discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct”, with an annual report detailing the status of LGBTQI+ rights in countries... 

A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in northeastern Nigeria killed “tens of people”, the United Nations said late on Sunday, amending an earlier statement putting the death toll at 110. The killings took place in the early afternoon of Saturday in the village of Koshobe and other rural communities in the Jere local government area near Maiduguri, the capital of the conflict-hit Borno state. “Armed... 

A Belgian journalist is being threatened by Muslims for an article he wrote earlier this month about a three-year-old girl who was slaughtered by Islamic extremists using machetes in Nigeria. Jakob Kürüm writes for SCEPTR, a popular Flemish conservative news portal. On June 12 he published an article about a 3-year-old Nigerian Christian girl, Elizabeth Samaila, who was cut to pieces by Islamic... 

Authorities in the Borno state of Nigeria said Wednesday that at least 81 people were killed in an attack on a nomadic community believed to have been carried out by militants aligned with the Islamic extremist groups Boko Haram or Islamic State West Africa Province. The Borno government in northeast Nigeria released a statement Wednesday explaining that residents described how militants in armored... 

Crimes committed by migrants rose significantly in the Netherlands in 2019, according to government figures. A new report delivered to the Dutch House of Representatives revealed a sharp increase in criminal incidents involving foreign suspects. The overview addresses “incidents that occurred within the walls of reception centres (17,487 cases), but also outside them (4999). In both cases, an...