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Horrors from Libya: Migrants’ reminiscences

Daily Dispatch January 31, 2018

Faith Oboh, 22, is the third in a family of 12 persons; the first daughter in a polygamous family who lost her mother before he finished with her secondary school’s education. Oboh is among the more than 200 returnees from Libya who had to undergo documentation organised by the Edo Anti-Human

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History: 35 Amazing Facts About Ijebu

Daily Dispatch January 16, 2018

Ijebu (also known as Jebu or Geebu) was a Yoruba kingdom in pre-colonial Nigeria. It formed around the fifteenth century. According to legend, its ruling dynasty was founded by Obanta of Ile-Ife. The King of Ijebu (right) The kingdom was one of the most developed in the region with a complex and highly organized government. The capital was at Ijebu Ode where

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Trump says Nigerians, other immigrants from ‘shithole’

Daily Dispatch January 12, 2018

US President Donald Trump has very zero regard for immigrants from Nigeria and other countries as he described them as people coming from “shithole”. It is the latest profanity to be mouthed by the American leader about foreigners. The last one reported, which his spin doctors denied, was that he described Haitians as people infected […]

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In Libya 20 Nigerians sold for $730

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

Nigerian returnees from Libya have continued to recount the harrowing ordeal they experienced while in the country, including a day when 20 of them were sold for just $730. The Nigerians gave their accounts in interviews with BBC at a hotel in Benin, where they are being accommodated by the Edo State government. Agen Akhere, […]

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Nigerian Judges, Court officials defrauded government N4.8billion

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2017

About N4.8 billion was either misappropriated or unaccounted for between 2012 and 2015, by federal courts across the country, audit reports of the Auditor General of the Federation revealed. A PREMIUM TIMES’ analysis of the reports covering four years shows how court officials illegally spent the taxpayers’ money in flagrant abuse of the Fiscal Responsibility […]

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At 55: Saraki most vilified, yet the best – Aide

Daily Dispatch December 17, 2017

An Aide to the President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki has said that he (Saraki) had continued to break many new grounds as the Senate’s President in spite of being “vilified”. Mr Chuks Okocha, Special Assistant to the Senate President on Print Media, in an opinion piece titled: “Saraki: *The Most Vilified, Yet the […]