Society

A British couple in their sixties have been jailed for growing marijuana in their back garden. Michael Foster, 62, and...

Hundreds of Red Cross Red Crescent leaders representing African National Societies and their partners today united in Addis Ababa for...

The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, spoke this week at the Hay Festival in Mexico. In an extract from his talk,...

A few weeks ago, a student walked up to me and said: “Mwalimu (teacher) I’m confused”. I did not understand...

I've just finished reading Gypsy Boy – an autobiographical work by Mikey Walsh where he documents harrowing childhood experiences. In...

In our house in Nsukka, the small university town in eastern Nigeria where I grew up, my parents’ bedroom harboured...

A Nairobi court has stopped US President Barack Obama’s half-brother from taking his three-year-old son to America and ordered him...

I do agree that the youth of today are a little different from we were when we were young but...

“Here is the mess,” the warder said when he shoved Michael Adams* into an overcrowded cell in Allandale Prison, near...

As a woman, I can tell you that I’m in a relationship with my breasts. After all, they’ve always been...

As Facebook announced that it hit the 1 billion users mark last week, becoming the world’s third largest “country,” penetration...

The culture of disregarding norms has reached the inner sanctums of holiness throwing old assumptions under the grind of progress...

Michelle Obama famously forgot her first wedding anniversary to her hubby, Barack. The week of the couple's first marriage milestone, as Michelle recalled...

Sperm has become one of the hottest commodities being sold in Ghana and many parts of the world. The target market for...

Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Saturday apologised for his affairs with two women whom he later dropped in favour of...

What 20-year-old Proscovia Oromait lacks in political experience, she makes up for in self-assurance. "I went into politics because I...

Twin prostitutes, 70, retire from being full-time sex workers after sleeping with a combined 355,000 men during their 50 year...

A new report claims that a broken heart is a medical syndrome that can be as lethal as a heart attack or...

Jesus Christ got married to Mary Magdalene, an ancient script appears to claim. A previously unknown 1,700-year-old papyrus fragment makes...

A few years back, while I was still a young beauty, it was almost unheard of for me to walk...