Monthly Archives: April 2015
Zimbabwe to appeal 2018 World Cup expulsion
Zimbabwe’s football governing body, Zifa, looks set to appeal the Zimbabwe national football team’s exclusion from the 2018 World Cup over its debt to...
2015 London Production of The Gods Are Not To Blame
“When the gods commend, we men must obey!” This statement from the play sums up the thrust of Ola Rotimi’s classic play, The Gods...
Suge Knight arrives in court in chains
The judge in Suge Knight’s robbery trial has given the former rap music mogul time to hire a new attorney after he and his...
British Army interpreter denied asylum
An interpreter from Afghanistan has been denied asylum by UK immigration despite saving the lives of British soldiers'.
Aslam Yousaf Zai began working with the...
Defeated Will sure Lucy was Twitter winner
Coach of this season’s runner-up on BBC 1’s The Voice, will-i-am has congratulated winner Stevie McCrorie and winning coach Ricky Wilson, while insisting his...
SA football mourns yet again
South African football has suffered a third tragic loss in a matter of months following the death of former international striker Richard Henyekane in...
Good Cop 1, Bad Cop 0 in bar shoot-out
A police officer in Jamaica who moonlighted as a robber has been shot and killed in the island’s Westmoreland parish.
The Jamaica Gleaner reports that...
‘Lesbian’ who played the asylum system loses appeal
Aderonke Apata, the lesbian gay rights activist who claimed asylum for fear of persecution in her native Nigeria, has lost her battle to remain...
Garissa attack suspects in court
Six suspects believed to have been involved in the massacre of 148 students and staff of Kenya’s Garissa University appeared in court this week.
Mohamed...
Buhari takes Nigerian presidency in historic election
General Muhammadu Buhari has beaten Goodluck Johnathan at the polls, in one of Nigeria’s most controversial elections.
Johnathan, who is the nation’s first sitting president...