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Survivors of sex trafficking and those who investigate it in the city share their stories. Baltimore, Maryland - Taylor* was 13 when she first became a victim of sex trafficking. She had recently escaped from an abusive home and was living on the streets of Baltimore. She was too young to work legally, but a …
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Tope Adenola/Ndidi Nwuneli/MOE+ Entrepreneurs in oil-rich Nigeria are finding it difficult to weather the economic fallout of the deadly coronavirus pandemic and a plummeting currency. Amid the lockdown a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia sent the price of the fossil fuel tumbling, dragging down the value of the Nigerian currency with it. With the …
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President Trump’s peculiar brew of relentless dishonesty and utter shamelessness often acts as a shield against his interviewers. The lies tumble out at such a furious pace, and the display of corrupt motives is so blatant, that pinning Trump down on them is like (and apologies for the cliche, but nothing else is better) nailing …
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The Punch Newspaper reported on August 4th 2015 that President Mohammadu Buhari had requested the approval of the Senate for a $75m credit facility from the World Bank on behalf of the Edo State Government. The money when converted at the official rate of N196 to a dollar is N14.7 billion. The president explained that …
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(CNN) — Never mind meddling by Russia, China or Iran. The most dangerous threat to the integrity of November's election is coming from the man sworn to protect it, the President of the United States. Trailing badly in the polls, overtaken by the worst health crisis in 100 years and deprived of the cruising economy …
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