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Founder of the Living Faith Church also known as the Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has described as an insult a report by Forbes magazine that he is worth $150M. Sometime last year, Forbes evaluated the networth of the clergyman and estimated him to worth around $150 million. Bishop Oyedepo who owns one of the most thriving churches in Nigeria, ...

Sixty-six people have been killed in a passenger plane crash in Iran, airline company officials say. The Aseman Airlines plane, en route from Tehran to the south-western city of Yasuj, came down in the Zagros mountains of central Iran. The Red Crescent has deployed a search and rescue team to the site near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province. ...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, about a woman seeking justice for her daughter’s murder, scooped the top prizes at the Bafta Film Awards. The drama won five trophies including best film, best British film and best actress for Frances McDormand. Gary Oldman won best actor for playing Winston Churchill – one of two awards for World War Two epic Darkest ...

Ghana is hosting the 5th ECOWAS Presidential Task Force Meeting on the Single Currency Programme from the 17th – 21st February, 2018 at the Accra International Conference Centre. The four-day meeting is being chaired by Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, H. E. Muhammadu Buhari; President of the Republic of Cote d’ ...

Two new language services have been launched by the BBC World Service for Igbo and Yoruba speakers in Nigeria and West and Central Africa. Their digital content is mainly aimed at audiences who use mobile phones. Igbo is primarily spoken in south-east Nigeria and Yoruba in the south-west, as well as in Benin and Togo. The new services are part ...

Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is qualified to contest in presidential elections scheduled for later this year, leader of the legislature has said. Aguila Saleh Issa, Speaker of House of Representatives told news outlet Sputnik that with the adoption of a new amnesty law, Saif like anyone else could contest to lead the north ...

South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned from his office with immediate effect. He made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening. Earlier, Mr Zuma’s governing ANC party told him to step down or face a vote of no confidence in parliament. The 75-year-old has been under increasing pressure to give way to Deputy ...

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died in South Africa, a senior official in his MDC party has said. Mr Tsvangirai, 65, a former prime minister, had reportedly been suffering from colon cancer. “He died this evening. The family communicated this to me,” MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri told Reuters. Mr Tsvangirai’s career was marked by a long political ...

  American Chamber of Commerce Ghana (AMCHAM) and the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (GARIA) would be hosting a Panel discussion on Ghana’s Economy: Moving from Stabilization to Growth with experts drawn from the Business environment in Ghana. The program is schedule on Friday 16, 2018, from 9:00am to 12:00pm at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. The ...

Embattled South African President Jacob Zuma will hold a media briefing at 10:00 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) today, local portals including the state-owned SABC reported late Tuesday. This briefing comes barely 24 hours after the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party ordered him to step down as head of state. It remains to be seen whether Zuma will announce his response to ...