80-year-old man identified as David Mluli died at a hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, while he was with his 33-year-old lover. Mr Mluli reportedly collapsed and died suddenly on Saturday, January 16, while he was in room number 22 at Mbezi Garden Hotel in Dar es Salaam, where he had gone to relax…
A Nigerian consultant anesthetist based in the United Kingdom who was suspended for beating his 10-year-old son has been reinstated back. Dr. Adekunle Okunuga, 59, reportedly caned his young son with the kitchen brush for misbehaving at school and made him perform squat thrusts and stand on one leg with his arms in the…
US President-elect, Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders on his first day in the White House, that will show a stunning rebuke of outgoing US President Donald Trump’s policies . The executive orders include rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, according to a…
China has locked down a city of 11 million people in its northern province of Hebei, in order to contain the country’s worst coronavirus flare-up in months. Residents of Shijiazhuang, a provincial capital close to Beijing, have been barred from leaving the city, as major highways were blocked, train and bus stations closed and flights…
Twitter has permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account two days after the siege at the Capitol that led to the death of five people and a few hours after he tweeted that he will not be attending Biden’s inauguration. Twitter explained why they took the decision in a statement they released a few hours ago. “After…
A court in east Zhejiang Province on Tuesday sentenced 17 people to prison for smuggling more than 23 tons of pangolin scales into the country from Nigeria. The scales, worth more than 180 million yuan (US$27.9 million), were smuggled by the gang from Nigeria in three batches in 2018 and 2019, according to the intermediate…
Former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke has contracted Coronavirus. Adoke who told The Cable that he has gone to Dubai in United Arab Emirates for treatment, disclosed that he is asymptomatic. He said; “Two days to my return trip to Nigeria, I went for the mandatory COVID-19 test. A day to the…
The European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) have finally agreed a post-Brexit trade deal, ending months of disagreements over fishing rights and future business rules. The UK is set to exit EU trading rules next Thursday – a year after officially leaving the 27 nation bloc. It will mean big changes for business, with…
British singer-songwriter, FKA Twigs has sued her ex-boyfriend, actor Shia LaBeouf for allegedly abusing her physically and infecting her with an STD during their relationship. The pair dated between 2018 and 2019. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, on Friday accuses the American actor of sexual battery, assault, and infliction of emotional distress. The singer-songwriter cited multiple incidents…
Time magazine has jointly named President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris its “Person of the Year.” Time’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal says Biden and Harris won the honor for “changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a…
