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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Mass graves that authorities say could contain more than 2,000 bodies have been discovered in Rwanda nearly a quarter-century after the country’s genocide, and further graves are being sought nearby. The new discovery is being called the most significant in a long time in this East African nation that is still recovering from the 1994 killings of more than 800,000 people. Some Rwandans are shocked and dismayed that residents of the community outside the capital, Kigali, where the mass graves were found kept quiet about them for so many years. “Those who participated in the killing of our relatives don’t want to tell us where they buried them. How can you reconcile with such people?” asked a tearful France Mukantagazwa. She told The Associated Press she lost her father and other relatives in the genocide and believes their bodies are in the newly found graves. The discovery of the graves in Gasabo district came just days after Rwanda marked 24 years since the...

When Serena Williams announced she was engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, many people remarked about the fact that the Black woman hailed as the greatest athlete of all time was settling down with a white man. However, what remained important to Williams, who shares daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. with Alexis Sr., is that her spouse was kind, humorous and loving. “Ultimately I wanted to be with someone who treated me nice, someone who was able to laugh with me and someone who understood my life and someone that loved me,” the athlete previously linked to Drake and Common told The New York Times in a Friday, April 27 profile. “And you know, I’m sure there’s other people out there [pauses and laughs]. But you know, Alexis is the one I connected with, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.” The two met in Rome, Italy in May 2015. Williams, lounging by a pool, had initially told him there were rats around to get him to leave her and her friend...

Popular Nigerian music video director/filmmaker and television director, Kemi Adetiba has shared a bizzare story of how a woman manipulated her children to kill their dad. According to a series of post on her social media page, Kemi narrated that a certain woman grew tired of her marriage and instead of contemplating a divorce, she opted to kill her husband and father of her kids. Unfortunately, she got her kids who were twelve years old and below at that time roped in for the murder, as prior to the murder action, she asked the kids to dig a hole at the back of the house to plant a tree The innocent kids did as they were told, ignorant of the repercussion of their action.  Upon being asked the whereabouts of their father, their mother gave the excuse of him abandoning them and eloping with a strange woman These kids basically lived with the little secret for twenty eight years, now they are forty, married with kids and one of the daughters leaked out the secret ...

A 35-year-old lady identified as Kate Otu burnt to death in an early morning fire at Oghara Delta State. The incident occurred this Tuesday morning, May 1. The deceased said to be a black market vendor, reportedly left a candle close to a gallon of fuel. According to reports, the fire was so severe that nothing could be saved from the entire building. Fire fighters were said to have arrived very late after the damage has been done.

A Ghanaian woman has revealed her horrible past to a Facebook relationship speaker and blogger, Abena Magis. Sharing rape cases with the #Menso, Abena Magis has used her Facebook page to share almost 10 cases from both men and women who have been sexually abused.The anonymous woman explained how her father started his evil act by pressing her boobs and hitting her ass; an act her mother was always in support of. “I don’t remember how my dad started but I remember I one day went to tell my mother that my dad touched my breasts and it wasn’t the first time. She was cooking banku and used the bankuta to hit my head to shut up. She called me “gyimifo” (useless) but will smile if my father hit my buttocks. She will say “wo ne wo ba yi de3, as3 obi ne ne yere.” (As for you and your child, you’re like husband and wife)”, she said. Though she survived after she ran away from home at age 12, she has failed to comprehend how her own mother supported her ‘evil’ husband. “Abena, my dad raped me...

Photos of an amputee doing road work in Kaduna was widely shared online after President Buhari’s controversial statement on Nigerian youths. See the report here The young man identified as 30-year-old Ogun State indigene, Abdulraheem Idris had his led amputated after an accident six years ago. According to Daily Trust, Abdulraheem was working as an apprentice motor mechanic when he and others were directed to move a vehicle to their workshop in Kawo from the bye-pass. “We were bringing the car when we had an accident along Mando Road. I sustained various degrees of injuries and my leg got infected so it had to be amputated. I have been living like that since then,” he told Daily Trust on Sunday. However, what endeared Abdulraheem to many is that he defied all odds despite his challenge to do manual labour to fend for himself. In fact, he is a known figure along Ungwan Dosa-Kawo road in Kaduna metropolis, where he works as a labourer in an ongoing road construction. Though...

President Donald Trump of the United States has made it known to President Muhammau Buhari that his country will not accept the killing of Christians which is currently going on in Nigeria. Donald Trump made this known while playing host to his Nigerian counterpart at the White House on Monday. “We have had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria, we are going to be working on that problem very, very hard because we cannot allow that to happen,” Trump said. On his part, President Buhari said he was working towards putting a stop to the killings perpetrated by the Fulani Herdsmen. He also thanked the US government for approving the sale of military hardware to Nigeria. The attack from the Fulani herdsmen took a different dimension when gunmen invaded a Catholic church in Benue state last week, killing two priests and 17 worshipers. Condemning the attack the Pope prayed for Christians while conducting a mass in Rome on Sunday after a visit from Ni...