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Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Monday sacked his finance minister Armando Manuel. The presidency announced, as the country battles an economic crisis caused by sinking oil prices. No reason was given for the dismissal of the 44-year-old London-educated minister who has held the post for three years. He has been replaced by Augusto Archer de Sousa Mangueira, 53, who was chairman of the country’s Capital Markets Commission prior to the new appointment. The new minister takes over of struggling economy which has slumped mainly due to the steep…

According to a statement by the NNPC, Former Group Managing Directors of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, weekend, called for an upward review of the price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, stating that the present price cap of N145 per litre is not in line with current economic realities. The Former Group Managing Directors (GMD) stated this at a one-day meeting with the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru and the immediate past GMD and current Minister of State for Petroleum Resources,…

Quasem Ali, Bangladesh wealthy tycoon and top financial backer of its largest Islamist party was hanged late Saturday for war crimes, dealing a massive blow to the group’s ambitions in the Muslim-majority nation. Mir Quasem Ali, a key leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed after being convicted by a controversial war crimes tribunal for offences committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan. The 63-year-old was hanged at the Kashimpur high security jail in Gazipur, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Dhaka, amid stepped-up security outside the prison…

Nicholas Chamberlain, a British bishop, has become the first in the Church of England — the mother church of the worldwide Anglican faith — to announce he is homosexual, in an interview published Saturday. The Bishop of Grantham in central England, told the Guardian newspaper he was in a long-term relationship with his male partner, after a Sunday paper reportedly said it was about to publish a story on his private life. “It was not my decision to make a big thing about coming out,” he said, adding that he…

92-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe joked Saturday that he had been resurrected as he returned from a foreign trip, mocking rumours that he had died or is critically ill. President, Robert Mugabe said, “Yes, I was dead. It’s true I was dead. I resurrected as I always do once I get back to my country. I am real again,” the 92-year-old ruler told reporters at Harare international airport after arriving from Dubai. His comments came after an online news site reported he had died mid-air on his trip to Dubai.…

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, President Muhammadu Buhari commended the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of social networking website, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, for sharing his wealth of knowledge with Nigerian youths, and inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs. Buhari made the commendation when he received the Internet entrepreneur at the State House. He said that President Buhari told Zuckerberg that the various meetings he held with Nigerian youths since his arrival were timely, as the…

Many Nigerians have always looked forward to an eclipse hoping that the May 20, 1947 event would recur. It was, therefore, not surprising that Nigerians, in many parts of the country, yesterday, trooped out to observe the annular eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between earth and the sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the sun for a viewer on earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon’s apparent diameter is larger than the sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness.…