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PHOTO: View Point Nigeria • FG targets N9.2tr from non-oil sector • Raises committee on export promotion Governors of the 36 states of the federation have agreed to take over the construction and management of some federal roads under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement. The governors are to submit to President Muhammadu Buhari a …
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Exclusive: The number of people seeking support in court because they have no lawyer is up 520% since 2011. BuzzFeed News spent three days in Birmingham's courts to find out how these people cope. Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed News It has only taken Adrian Hawkes four weeks of working as a civil lawyer to loathe …
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Europe is expelling thousands of Africans. To one Malian deportee, that looks like a recipe for revolution. BAMAKO, Mali — It was in Paris, but it wasn’t glamorous work. Amadou Coulibaly spent his nights swabbing a mop over acres of dimly lit office space as France’s corporate workforce slept. Each dawn, he bedded down with …
Diplomats who are accused of abusing their own employees cannot escape compensation claims under the shelter of state immunity, the UK's highest court ruled today. In a case brought by two Moroccan domestic workers against the Libyan and Sudanese embassies who employed them, the Supreme Court ruled that the State Immunity Act 1978 to prevent …
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