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Harare – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet reshuffle quashed opposition within his government, state media said Tuesday, as the 93-year-old leader prepares to stand again in elections next year. Mugabe stripped Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa of his role as justice minister, reassigned the finance minister and created a new cyber-security ministry in the major reshuffle late Monday. Mnangagwa is one ...

Nigeria’s national oil company said it faced no legal requirement to consult Minister of State Emmanuel Kachikwu about crude contracts, rejecting his allegations of mismanagement and confirming a split among top officials in Africa’s biggest oil and gas producer. “The law and the rules do not require a review or discussion with the minister of state or the NNPC board ...

WASHINGTON ― The Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico expired Sunday night, and “it is not being extended at this time,” Department of Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan told HuffPost on Monday. DHS had temporarily waived the Jones Act ― an arguably outdated law that imposes exorbitant shipping costs on the U.S. island ― on Sept. 28. The waiver has ...

My earliest recollection of Liberia was the 1990 capture, torture and execution of its first native president Samuel Doe by rebel leader Prince Yormie Johnson. The grotesque episode; which was captured on video, showed Johnson presiding over the torture of Doe as he was maimed one extremity at a time. Prince Johnson later fled to Nigeria where he lived in ...

As the investigation into the mass shooting at country-music festival in Las Vegas continues, pertinent information from festival goers have come to light. NBC’s Las Vegas affiliate KSNV spoke to Brianna Hendricks who attended the final day of the Route 91 Festival Sunday (Oct. 1) for her 21st birthday. Hendricks said she was standing next to a woman who was ...

TENSION increased in Spain’s restless Catalonia region today as it emerged hundreds of police have been forced out of their hotels ahead of a strike dubbed “a nation’s walkout.” The owner of the three-star Hotel Vila in the seaside resort of Calella just north of Barcelona confirmed today that he had asked around 100 Civil Guards staying at the establishment ...

Singer Akon and one of his wives were pictured at CDG airport in Roissy en France, France. This is Akon’s latest wife. The singer, who practices polygamy, has other wives including Rosina Bruck, a performer; and Tomeka Thiam. He also has multiple girlfriends and has several kids.   Source:Myjoyonline Share on: WhatsApp

Hugh Hefner, American founder of the international adult magazine Playboy, has died at the age of 91. Playboy Enterprises Inc said he passed away peacefully at home in Los Angeles, from natural causes. Hefner began publishing Playboy in his kitchen in 1953. It became the largest-selling men’s magazine in the world, shifting seven million copies a month at its peak. ...

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Shola Taylor said he is highly impressed with the collaboration between the public and private sector organization that constituted the Ghana delegation to the ongoing ITU Telecom World Conference in Busan, South Korea. Ghana’s delegation, led by Deputy Communications Minister Nenyi George Kojo Andah, comprised of five public sector institutions, two private sector ...

SENIOR Labour figures have issued a swift apology after an MP launched a bizarre attack on Prince Harry at a fringe meeting of they party’s Brighton conference. Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad reportedly questioned Harry’s ability to fly a helicopter at a meeting called Reigning in the Monarchy. But John Woodcock, MP for Barrow & Furness and former chairman of ...