Soaring number of girls are being forced to sell sex by gangs taking advantage of the chaos caused by the migrant crisisA promising student who dreamed of going to university, Mary was 16 when a woman approached her mother at their home and offered to…
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Nigeria: Not Much Magic – Nigeria’s Buhari Completes His First Year in Office
After a mixed start, the hope and goodwill on which Buhari was elected a year ago is starting to run lowOne year after Muhammadu Buhari broke the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) 16-year reign and became the first person to defeat an incumbent presiden…
All at sea: Libyan detention centres at crisis point
“Yesterday, we received 203 new migrants, today it was 585, and tomorrow there will be more, and the next day, and the day after.”Khalid al-Tumi runs the Zawiya migrant detention centre, 23 kilometres east of Sabrata in northwestern Libya. The coast ar…
Nigerian Troops Recover Viagra, Other Sex Drugs From Killed Boko Haram Militants
The Nigerian Army on Friday said its troops on Thursday night ambushed and killed some fleeing Boko Haram terrorists from the Sambisa forest.A statement issued by the acting Director of Army Public Relations, Sani Usman, said the terrorists were ambush…
Nigerian Troops ‘Rescue 157 Captives As 77 Boko Haram Members Surrender’
Nigerian troops deployed in Borno State have rescued several abducted persons, arrested suspected Boko Haram terrorists, and recovered weapons and equipment, the army said in a statement.The troops of 81 Battalion and 251 Task Force Battalion, 25 Task …
Niger State Government flags off rehabilitation of primary healthcare centers
In line with the Federal Government’s policy of rehabilitating over 10,000 primary healthcare centers (PHCs) in the country within the next two years, Niger State Government has flagged off the rehabilitation exercise, with the commissioning of its pil…
NIGERIA, DR CONGO AMONG COUNTRIES WITH ‘HIGHEST ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD’
Nigeria leads in Africa and ranks eighth in the world with an estimated 875,500 modern slaves followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which ranks ninth in the world with an estimated 873,100 enslaved people.These are findings of the Global S…
We will not starve contractors of funds � Daramola
Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Prof. Claudius Omoleye Daramola has disclosed that the Ministry, under the changed Government would not starve contractors handling the Ministry’s projects of their financial dues, in order to fast-track proj…
Nigeria: Court Grants 88 MSSOB Members Bail in Ebonyi
An Abakaliki Magistrate Court on Wednesday granted bail to 88 members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) arrested by the Ebonyi State Police command in Abakaliki during this year’s Biafra day celebration.The pol…
Leading Cocoa And Chocolate Companies Join Together To Help Cocoa Farmers Adapt To Weather And Climate Impacts
New Partnership in West Africa and Latin America Focused on Industry’s Sustainability STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania, May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) announced today the launch of its new program designed to strengthen collaboration between the public and private sector to address the threat climate change poses to cocoa sustainability and the many […]