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Nigeria’s senate passed a bill on Tuesday outlawing same-sex marriage in Africa’s most populous country as well as banning public displays of affection between homosexual couples. Approval of the bill, which still must be voted on by the House of Representatives and signed by President Goodluck Jonathan, came after debate that saw one lawmaker go as far as to suggest ...

Michael Jackson’s doctor has received the maximum sentence of four years in prison for the death of the pop superstar. Doctor Conrad Murray learned of the punishment Tuesday. A Los Angeles jury found Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter following a six-week trial that ended in early November. The judge said Jackson died not because of an isolated incident or accident, ...

The Federal Government yesterday blamed the nation’s economic woes on the Ibrahim Babangida’s military administration. The government said the country was yet to recover from the Naira’s first devaluation in 1986, when former President Babangida introduced the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). Information Minister, Labaran Maku, who revealed this, said the country had since the devaluation faced high unemployment rate, crises ...

The SENSE program is a U.S. developed computer game that has been helping countries prepare for national transitions following major moments of unrest since the 90s. Created by the U.S. Institute of Defense Analysis, the Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise is now being used to help train top officials from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya to manage those countries during ...

Few months after former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, made fleeting overture at reconciling their five-year beef, remarks from Condoleezza Rice’s memoir has plunged both men in a fresh war of words. The latest clash, sparked by Obasanjo’s Newspaper interview where he said Atiku failed to succeed him in 2007 because he was inexperienced and self destructive ...