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Raul Castro: to step aside as Cuba’s president on Thursday After 10 years in office, Cuba’s Raul Castro, 86, will retire as president on Thursday. Today the country’s after parliament proposed Miguel Diaz-Canel as his replacement, a shift that will usher in the island’s first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution. Raul Castro announced his departure several years ago and has...

In a strongly worded Press Statement released to the media on Wednesday April 18 at the Party's headquarters in Abuja and signed by its national secretary, Comrade Mark Adebayo, KOWA Party has condemned the Senator Omo-Agege-led "premeditated attacks on the National Assembly". According to the Party,  "It is a reprehensible act of retrogressive malady for the hallowed chambers of the...

Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has described the invasion and disruption of the proceedings of the Senate by hoodlums as inimical to democratic norms and values. In a statement, the National Secretary of the Union, Comrade Shuaibu Leman said paralysing Parliamentary Sessions and seizing the symbol of authority was a condemnable act. "A DASTARDLY ACT: We consider the invasion and disruption...

The Nigerian senate has stepped down the controversial Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill which seeks to reshuffle the sequence of polls in a general election. The bill, which was considered for second reading, suffered a setback when several lawmakers across party lines who spoke on it, raised various issues against the amendment. The lawmakers resolved that the bill be stepped down...

The abducted secretary of the Ondo State branch of the National Union Of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Comrade Kayode Agbeyangi on Wednesday regained his freedom.  Similarly, The National Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE) Ondo State Deputy President, Comrade Marcus Akinduko and Akoko South west Information officer, Gabriel Ajayi have also regained their freedom today. /script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); ...

File Photo: Farmers in Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is on course for economic growth of 3.1 percent this year, the World Bank said on Wednesday, marginally slower than it previously forecast but faster than last year thanks to rising commodity prices. By 2020 growth in the region should pick up to 3.7 percent, it said. Sub-Saharan African economies were hit hard...

  Weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari approved the take-off of the new 8 Division for the Nigerian Army in Sokoto, the state government said it has allocated land and structures to serve as temporary headquarters for the division. Inspecting ongoing renovation works at the site of the new division in Kalambaina area of the state capital, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said...

Today, some hoodlums led by suspended Senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, walked into the Senate plenary and seized the symbol of authority of the Upper Legislative Chamber, the mace. This action is an act of treason, as it is an attempt to overthrow a branch of the Federal Government of Nigeria by force, and it must be treated as such. All Security...

Prof. Akindele   For demanding sex-for-mark from a female student, the management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, has suspended Prof. Richard Akindele, THE PRECISION can understand.   Prof. Akindele had been in the eye of the storm, following the release of an audio conversation between him and a female student in his department, where he purportedly requested for sex five times...

Reports coming in from Ilesa, Osun state say some suspected armed robbers are currently attacking banks in the town. Though multiple sources contacted could not confirm which of the banks was attacked, but a source at Ilesha Roundabout said few minutes before 12pm, gunshots were heard near First Bank located in the area, sending people in the vicinity into...