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(CNSNews.com) – The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals–or bestiality. On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ...

(Daily Nation) The government has tabled a new salary offer to 2,300 doctors whose national strike enters its fourth day on Thursday. But the negotiations are set to continue because the doctors expressed reservations about the government’s counter-proposal. The talks resumed on Wednesday as Parliament’s Health Committee termed the strike as a “national emergency” that should be addressed urgently. The ...

The winners of the US climate change competition “Apps4Africa” were announced on Wednesday with Nigeria emerging champion for the West African zone on the sidelines of the ongoing COP 17 in Durban, South Africa. The Apps4Africa challenge is a competition which challenges program developers to find innovative technological solutions to everyday problems on issues ranging from transparency and governance to ...

Source Premium Times Normal vehicular and pedestrian traffic along the Abuja-Lokoja highway in Nigeria remain crippled, as the blockade mounted by soldiers to prevent Abuja-bound supporters of Governor Timipre Sylva from entering Abuja remains in place. Travellers, mostly night commuters from the eastern and western parts of the country, as well as those going out of the Federal Capital Territory ...

After about 25 years of construction work, the multimillion Naira National Temple of The Apostolic Church Nigeria, TAC, touted as the largest church in the world, has been inaugurated in Lagos. Sited at the international ground of the Church in Ketu, the newly dedicated temple has a sitting capacity of 100,000 worshippers at a time. The national president of The ...