Nigerian senate has passed a bill banning same-sex marriages, defying a threat from Britain to withhold aid from nations violating gay rights. The bill by Africa’s most populous nation calls for a 14-year sentence for anyone convicted of homosexuality. Anyone … read more
The State Security Service, on Wednesday, paraded seven suspects for circulating threatening text messages and emails to foreign embassies. According to the security agency, the messages caused the Eid-il-Kabir Boko Haram attack scare in Abuja earlier in November. Chinwedu Josiah, … read more
Defying pressure from Western countries against legislation that limits rights of sexual minorities, the upper chamber of Nigeria National Assembly, the Senate, on Tuesday passed a bill to prohibit same sex marriage. Tagged Same-Sex Prohibition Bill, the law proposed up … read more
Calls for the government to bring an end to the huge cost of the subsidy on fuel must be seen as a clear route to the economic survival of Nigeria , according to presentations made before the Senate committee probing … read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011, rested its submissions against a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Usman Nafada who are being prosecuted before a High Court of … read more
Few terrorism experts would deny that a radical Islamist sect that has made a series of increasingly audacious attacks in Nigeria, including the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Africa’s most populous nation this summer, is a growing threat. What isn’t … read more
Despite campaigns to stop HIV transmission, more than 70,000 newborn children still contract the virus from their mothers through delivery. Director general of the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA), John Idoko, has attributed the problem to mothers not … read more
The global terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, is planning a “wave of abductions” of Westerners in the Sahel, the Algerian secret service agency has said. According to a report in Algeria’s most widely read newspaper, el-Khabar, the country’s secret service, the Department … read more
Nigeria’s Islamist Boko Haram sect was responsible for a string of weekend bombings targeting government buildings and churches in Geidam in the northeast, its purported spokesman said Monday. Abul Qaqa, who claims to speak for Boko Haram, said in an … read more
Nigeria has withdrawn $2 billion from its crude oil savings for ‘various projects’ and distributed more money in October to the three tiers of government than the previous month, the minister of state for finance said on Monday. Yerima Ngama … read more