TODAY IN HISTORY

• 2017 - Nigeria

Academic programmes in all public universities in the country were truncated, following an indefinite strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities

• 2016 - Nigeria

Suntrust, the branchless bank opened formally for business as it sought to reshape the banking space and the way consumers interface with their banks • 12 houses at Abeokuta and Ibadan Streets in Ilasamaja area of Lagos were shut down by the state government due to the discovery of shallow oil wells built by the landlords to steal diesel from pipelines belonging to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)

• 2015 - Cuba

The U.S. Embassy in Havana, re-opened after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–united States relations were broken off.

• 2014 - W/africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said death toll from the outbreak of Ebola had climbed to 1,069 in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

• 2014 - Colombia

Pres. Juan Manuel Santos endorsed the legalization of marijuana for medical and therapeutic use.

• 2013 - Egypt

Egypt declared a state of emergency as security forces killed 600 demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mohamed Elbaradei, resigned as Egypt's interim vice president in protest — a blow to the leadership's credibility.

• 2012 - Nigeria

Flooding in Plateau State caused by heavy rains killed 33 people, with many others missing, while also destroying homes, bridges and farms

• 2009 - Nigeria

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi sacked the heads of five banks for piling up debts and poor management - Afribank, Intercontinental Bank, Union Bank, Oceanic Bank and Finbank. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission froze the accounts of the sacked directors for running the banks into insolvency.

• 2006 - Nigeria

Nigeria handed over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon in compliance with a Un-brokered deadline, which ended a 13-year feud.

• Ayo Daramola, member of the ruling PDP and potential guber candidate in Ekiti State, was stabbed to death in his home.