Oscar Pistorius to be sentenced on July 6

The judge at Oscar Pistorius' hearing in Pretoria, South Africa has announced he will be sentenced on July 6.

The South African athlete shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013. 

Judge Thokozile Masipa is reconsidering his sentence after a court found him guilty of murdering Ms Steenkamp, overturning an earlier manslaughter verdict, BBC reports. 

CBN announces Devaluation of Naira, introduces New ‘Flexible’ Forex Regime

The value of the Nigerian currency was today devalued to the dollar as the Central Bank of Nigeria announced a flexible foreign exchange regime that would see the country abolishing the dual exchange rate regime.

Under the new plan, the official exchange rate of the naira will exist in a "single flexible window," which will likely be determined by market forces.

President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on medical vacation in the United Kingdom, had

Obama slams Trump’s ‘loose talk and sloppiness’ over Muslims

President Barack Obama on Tuesday charged that “loose talk” about Muslims by presidential hopeful Donald Trump and other Republicans was betraying American values and harming the fight against extremism.

“We’re starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we’re fighting, where this can lead us,” Obama told a news conference, two days after the Orlando