by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
Nigeria’s most senior Muslim cleric has rejected a new gender equality bill, which proposes that women and men inherit an equal share. The Sultan of Sokoto, Mohamed Sa’ad Abubakar, said Muslims would not accept the violation of Islamic law guaranteeing men...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
There will be no Fidel Castro streets or plazas in Cuba, in keeping with the late revolutionary leader’s wishes, as spelled out in a law Cuban legislators passed on Tuesday. President Raul Castro, 85, said that before dying at the age of 90 on November 25, his...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
Nigeria has struck off 50,000 ‘ghost workers’ from the state payrolls this year, saving nearly 630 million euros, the presidency said Tuesday. The office of President Muhammadu Buhari, who was voted into power last year vowing to stamp out endemic graft in...
by Hope Media | Dec 28, 2016 | news
Senate is set to debate contentious changes to elections laws that were passed by the National Assembly last week. Anti-riot police barricaded Parliament Road and Harambee Avenue as more officers were deployed around Parliament Buildings. Some senators were forced to...
by Hope Media | Dec 27, 2016 | news
Mozambique’s Renamo opposition party will cease all military operations against government forces for the next seven days to allow the public to enjoy New Year festivities, its leader Afonso Dhlakama said on Tuesday. Rights groups estimate that dozens of people...
