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The Nobel peace prize winner and president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has defended a law that criminalises homosexual acts, saying: “We like ourselves just the way we are.” In a joint interview with Tony Blair, who was left looking visibly uncomfortable by her remarks, Sirleaf told the Guardian: “We’ve got certain traditional values in our society that we would ...

A man died of renal failure at a ‘miracle’ rally in the Cape Town Stadium at the weekend, the Cape Times reported on Monday. Simon Williams, 56, a pastor, had been discharged from an intensive care unit on Friday before attending the “Higher Life World Conference”, where televangelist Chris Oyakhilome was said to perform miracles and cure the sick. It ...

South Africa is set to deport 56 Nigerians, The Nation learnt yesterday. The Federal Government has been notified of the planned deportation, which is coming barely two weeks after a row between the two countries. The deportees, who have overstayed their visas, applied for asylum because of alleged political “crisis” in Nigeria. They appeared before an Asylum Panel in South ...

As African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development gather in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, next week, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, and the UN Under Secretary General and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Abdoulie Janneh, have said that Africa should be seen as a pole of global growth. In a ...

(Premium Times) – The 23 Armoured Brigade, Yola, Adamawa State, has clamped down on a syndicate specializing in gunrunning, and sale of military gear to men of the underworld. Nancy James and her accomplice, Haliru Jumba, a pastor with Kunini Deeper Life Bible Church in Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State were caught with some cache of arms hidden ...