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Last year, the BBC's Sam Piranty was given access by the Catalan police, Mossos D'Esquadra, to an investigation into a Nigerian sex-trafficking gang. He spoke to traffickers and women rescued from sexual slavery before filming an early morning raid in November, which led to 23 arrests. He also discovered that the gang is now using …
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Getty Images Students at publicly unded universities have had their education interrupted by several strikes The futures of more than a million Nigerian university students are on hold as a lecturers' strike drags on less than a month before a presidential election, as Yemisi Adegoke reports from Lagos. Olamide Tejuoso had been looking forward to …
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Crisis at Home Makes the United States Vulnerable Abroad Analysts of international affairs rarely focus on how the domestic condition of the United States shapes the country’s influence and role in the world, but today the connection could hardly be more relevant. The United States is currently experiencing three upheavals simultaneously: the COVID-19 pandemic, the …
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PHOTO: Freance24 The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic has turned the envy of most Nigerians in the diaspora to pity and of course, the beginning of wisdom for those who still harbour a dream to seek the Golden fleece abroad. The pathetic tales of inhuman treatment of Nigerians in China is quite disheartening. Thanks to technology …
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Editorial The optics. Am aspiring governorship candidate of the running party whose main plank is anti corruption and yet set to nominate a candidate whose articles of corruption is now perfected by the court. A bunch of useless people A federal high court sitting in Benin, Edo state, has validated the money laundering case instituted …
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