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Mauritania issued an international warrant Wednesday for the arrest of an opponent of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for supporting terror groups in the Sahel region, a justice official has said. Moustapha Ould Limam Chavi is charged with financing terrorism, sharing intelligence with terror groups, and giving them financial and logistical support, the official said on condition of anonymity. “These ...

The General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has called for a national conference to address thorny issues facing the nation in the wake of series of bomb attacks in the country. Kumuyi said the problems confronting the nation are beyond prayers alone and that the leadership of the nation needs to work towards achieving utmost ...

An Italian couple are to become the world’s oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s. The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the discovery a few days before Christmas. Notwithstanding the time that ...

The founder and President of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasehun, has warned President Goodluck Jonathan not to implement the proposed removal of oil subsidy to avoid unprecedented national crisis. The OPC leader said the planned fuel subsidy removal would cause more economic pains and hardship to many Nigerians. He urged members of the ...

An explosion hit the provincial office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF in the central city of Gweru, causing only material damage, state media reported on Thursday. “We are still investigating the cause of the explosion” which occurred late Tuesday, police inspector Patrick Chademana told The Herald newspaper. He said nobody was injured by the blast, which took place in ...