Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty in Australia of sexual offences against children, making him the highest-ranking Catholic figure to receive such a conviction. Pell abused two choir boys in Melbourne’s cathedral in 1996, a jury found. He had pleaded not guilty. As Vatican treasurer, the 77-year-old Australian was widely seen as the Church’s…

A group of funeral directors in South Africa say they will sue a self-styled prophet who claims to have resurrected a dead man. A viral video of Pastor Alph Lukau shows him shouting “rise up” to a man laying down in a coffin who then jerks upright to cheers from worshippers. The funeral companies say…

Nigeria’s electoral commission chair Mahmood Yakubu declared on Sunday that he was generally happy with the progress made in the conduct of the presidential and national elections. Yakubu, who was addressing journalists on Sunday following Saturday’s vote admitted that there had been some glitches in several parts of the country, including in the two capitals…

US actor Jussie Smollett has been arrested in Chicago after being charged with filing a false police report. The Empire star had said he was subjected to a homophobic and racist physical attack by two men in January. Police suspect the 36-year-old actor paid two Nigerian brothers to stage the attack. They are both co-operating…

Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has commended Akufo-Addo government for setting up a Commission of Inquiry to look into the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. According to him, in spite of the reservations many people had about the Commission of Inquiry “a lot of good appears to be coming out of…