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A closely fought presidential election will fail to convince voters that anything much will change A closely fought presidential election will fail to convince voters that anything much will change WHEN MUHAMMADU BUHARI won Nigeria’s presidential election in 2015, his victory was greeted with euphoria. He unseated the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which had ruled …
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An abandoned border control post at the entrance to Muff, in the Republic of Ireland. LONDON — The Irish backstop … convenient shorthand for a devilishly complex subject. It sounds almost like a fence, but the issue is about not having a fence at all — an apt paradox for a problem that may not …
As the deadline for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, or Brexit, bears down, the government is paralyzed. Companies are jumping ship. Fears of medicine shortages are rising. And after Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for leaving the bloc was resoundingly rejected by lawmakers, Parliament is only now getting around to debating other ideas — …
MINISTER of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, articulated the obvious recently when he bemoaned Nigeria’s energy paradox. He highlighted the near-hopelessness of an economy that exports raw energy but imports the processed product, and is desperately short of power for commerce and social activities. But this is a self-inflicted trilemma that, though inherited, the …
Authorities believe trafficking ring lured young women to Italy to force them into prostitution Sicilian authorities have made a series of arrests after a suspected sex trafficking ring was believed to have forced at least 15 Nigerian girls into prostitution in Italy. Among those arrested were two Nigerian women, Rita Ihama, 38, and Monica Onaigfohe, …
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