The UN Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) said at least 2.5 million migrants were smuggled during the course of 2016. UNODC, in the first ever Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants, said migrant smuggling occurred in all parts of the world, generated an income of up to seven billion dollars. The
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New video purports to show gendarmes of Cameroon’s brutal and despotic ruler, Paul Biya, forcing women to crawl through mud in an ongoing reign of terror on the English-speaking citizens of South Cameroon. A similar display of barbarism was witnessed in Nigeria in September of 2017 on Aba-Umuahia expressway, when Nigerian troops terrorized pro-Biafra Igbos, […]
Three civil society organisations have supported Soyinka’s call on the President to set up a Hall of Shame for corrupt past leaders and politicians. The Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project, the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership and the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights said in separate interviews that the setting up of […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Katsina on Wednesday adjourned the trial of the former state governor, Ibrahim Shema to October 15th and 16th, 2018. This, according to the prosecution counsel, Sam Ologunorisa (SAN) follows an application filed by the defendant seeking to quash the charges levelled against him. He says the application was responded […]
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has commended for the proactive and strategic management of the menace of human trafficking and illegal migration in the state. The Regional Director for West and Central Africa, International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Mr. Richard Danziger made this commendation during a courtesy visit to the governor at the Government House,
Edo State government has promised to support in the setting up of two additional firms among the pool of best ideas from the participants taken part at the Youths Empowered Nigeria Workshop Programme in Benin City. Governor Godwin Obaseki, gave the assurance while declaring open the workshop organised by Nigeria Bottling Company Limited. He noted that […]
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