Zanu PF controversial youth member Energy Mutodi has said the arrest of the activist of #ThisFlag Pastor Evan Mawarire will fuel more civil unrest if the government is not clever to have a foresight of things. Mutodi said the arrest of a civic activist Mawarire this afternoon on charges of inciting....

LAGOS, Nigeria, (UPI) -- Six suspected Boko Haram members, including a senior leader, were arrested after a local vigilante group found them in Lagos, Nigeria. They were rounded up in various parts of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, after leaving Maiduguri in Borno state, headquarters of the militant....

The NAIJ.com team has gathered the most important news that hit the headlines on Tuesday, July 12. Find all the stories you might have missed below. 1. Senators at war: Buhari to be impeached, Melaye threatens to beat up Tinubu’s wife. President Muhammadu Buhari has been threatened with impeachment....

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has expressed his grief and sadness over the gruesome murder of Mrs. Mojisola Olawale who was killed last Saturdeay in Abuja while making early call to salvation. Adeboye made this known in a statement issued....

Perry Noble was removed as pastor of NewSpring Church as of July 1. Noble has served on Elevation Church’s board of overseers. ‘No one is more disappointed in me than I am in myself,’ Noble said in statement. By Tim Funk and Rick Rothacker. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

A Canadian man was pulled over and questioned by police for “reading while black” for a couple of hours at a seaside wharf, he said. Louizandre Dauphin, a small New Brunswick’s city’s director of parks, recreation and tourism, wrote on Instagram Thursday that an officer told him a few people in....

*Party submits Ize-Iyamu as Edo guber candidate. Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has formally given recognition to the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party represented by the National Caretaker Committee led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

Two court bailiffs were killed and a deputy was injured Monday after an inmate grabbed the deputy’s gun outside a holding cell in a Michigan courthouse, Berrien County Sheriff L. Paul Bailey said. After shooting the officers, inmate Larry Darnell Gordon tried to take hostages in the courtroom area ,....

nytimes.com schreibt dazu weiter: The activism of the Rev Evan Mawarire, who organized the country’s largest protests in a decade, has galvanized public outrage over the president’s rule . Pastor in Zimbabwe Is Arrested as Anger Toward Robert Mugabe Builds. weiterlesen ... washingtonpost.

Clarence Shahid Freeman, the onetime community activist and local Democratic Party operative convicted this spring of trying to extort a former schools chief, was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and two years’ probation. Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley handed out the punishment for Freeman,....

As a boy, I had little delight in attending Sunday Mass. Our newly formed Catholic parish met in a large warehouse until such time as a church could be built. The service was in Latin. In the winter, the space was cold and uncomfortable; in summer, hot with an occasional flying bird overhead.

EGYEIKROM — Five years after the return of peace to Ivory Coast, 11,000 Ivorian refugees living in Ghana are still afraid to go home despite an upbeat economic climate in the world’s top cocoa producer. While the international community deems it safe for those involved in a decade of trouble to....

If there was anyone to be arrested for inciting public violence in Zimbabwe, then it should be President Robert Mugabe and Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, and not the activists who were being persecuted by the government, opposition PDP leader Tendai Biti said Tuesday.

DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the recent police-involved shootings around the United States (all times local): 3:40 p.m. A suburban St. Louis police officer who was shot last week during a traffic stop will require long-term care. The Ballwin Police department said in a Facebook posting Tuesday that....

A pastor ousted by his megachurch in South Carolina over problems that included alcohol use is a close friend of Elevation Church pastor Steven Furtick and has served on the board of overseers at the Charlotte church. As recently as 2014, Perry Noble – removed July 1 by the board at NewSpring Church in Anderson, S.

DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the recent police-involved shootings around the United States (all times local): 3:55 p.m. Washington's police chief says one man will be charged after firing on police officers during a carjacking early Tuesday. Chief Cathy Lanier said no officers were wounded during the unplanned attack in southeast Washington.

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja. The Independent National Electoral Commission has rejected the name of candidate submitted for the governorship election of Edo State by the Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the Peoples Democratic Party. The commission said that it decided to reject the list based on the fact....

Participants ask questions to an unseen entity and wait for the top pencil to move and point to one of the two answers on the sheet of paper. The news site reported that four teenagers initially took ill before more followed suit. They were all later taken to the hospital to be treated. Doctor Jair Ruiz recalled the moment they arrived.

Nachricht von voanews.com: Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a pastor after he posted several messages on social media, calling on people to protest police brutality and some of the government’s economic measures Evan Mawarire was arrested Tuesday ahead of a planned two-day protest, which the....

The Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change has condemned the police for arresting Pastor Evan Mawarire, the man who used the social media to call for last week’s shutdown which paralysed the country for a whole day though the state media has rubbished the stay-away as a flop.

THE Cebu City Council wants Mayor Tomas Osmeña to shed light on his supposed link with Jeffrey “Jaguar” Diaz, an alleged top drug lord who died in a police operation last month. This, after he revealed he was offered money by Jaguar’s camp to fuel his candidacy in the May 9 elections.

Asking others for help is one of the hardest things to do. Consequently, we power through our days trying to do it all on our own. If we only knew that we didn’t have to go it alone! Our helpers are there. Our advocates are waiting to lift us up. In fact, a Stanford professor found that we hugely....

Asking others for help is one of the hardest things to do. Consequently, we power through our days trying to do it all on our own. If we only knew that we didn’t have to go it alone! Our helpers are there. Our advocates are waiting to lift us up. In fact, a Stanford professor found that we hugely....

After shooting the officers, inmate Larry Darnell Gordon tried to take hostages in the courtroom area, shot a woman in the arm and was fatally shot by other bailiffs when he tried to flee, Bailey said. Gordon was being moved into the courtroom for an arraignment hearing, facing felony charges of....

DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the recent police-involved shootings around the United States (all times local): 2:40 p.m. Black and white religious and community leaders from a broad spectrum of churches and groups have met in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to share emotions, tragic stories and map out a....