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This woman was abducted by Boko Haram in an attack on her home town CREDIT: LEKE ALABI-ISAMA Adamu Mohammed had braced himself for the worst. Five weeks ago, when Boko Haram gunmen staged a mass abduction in the northern Nigerian town of Dapchi, his 15-year-old daughter Maryam was among the 110 girls dragged off in broad …
In a country that is a byword for poor governance, Lagos is thriving — attracting investment and private enterprise. So what can the rest of Nigeria learn from it? © Getty Images. A bustling market on Lagos Island Just to the east of Lagos, in the rapidly expanding new city of Lekki, a huge industrial …
Louis XIV words 'L'etat c'est moi' ('I am the state') express the spirit of a rule in which the king held all political authority. The modern day pretender, the Moron of the USA seeks to alter such words but lacks the competence, authority, intelligence and skills to say such words. When he declared “only I …
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described as “criminal” the rejection of a free trade agreement for African countries, by President Muhammadu Buhari and nearly a dozen other African heads of state. African leaders gathered in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) to create a unified market for about …
Tens of thousands in UK could be in a similar position to long-term resident Albert Thompson. Theresa May has refused to intervene in the case of Albert Thompson, the London cancer patient asked to pay £54,000 for treatment despite having lived in the UK for 44 years, as it emerged that there could be tens …
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