Boston Firm Admits ‘Massive Failure’ in Plan to Aid South Africa Tax Agency

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, center, has promised to tackle endemic corruption in the government.Gulshan Khan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images CAPE TOWN — The Boston consulting firm Bain and Company, which usually gets top dollar for its meticulously researched advice, charged $11 million on a contract in 2015 to advise South Africa’s tax agency …

UK aid to stop modern slavery in Nigeria

UK aid will protect thousands of vulnerable men, women and children in Nigeria from modern slavery and unsafe migration through innovative prevention work UK aid will help tackle the root causes of dangerous migration and modern slavery in Edo state, the epicentre of Nigeria’s human trafficking business. World-class British expertise will reduce vulnerabilities to trafficking …

Herders’ terrorism: Buhari at it again Abdulfatai Ayobami Ibrahim

Punch Editorial Board President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrated his cluelessness afresh on Sunday when he blamed herders’ act of horrific violence on the shrinking Lake Chad and alleged biased media reports. His narrow narrative seeks vainly to explain away the campaign of terror and mayhem by bandits on the displacement of herdsmen from the lake area …

Trump Can’t Help Obstructing Justice. Who Will Stop Him? By Renato Mariotti a former federal prosecutor.

The president abuses his office and views the Justice Department as a tool to punish his political enemies and give his allies a free pass. President Trump (right) criticized Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, on Twitter this week.Tom Brenner for The New York Times, and Doug Mills/The New York Times On Monday, President Trump publicly …

Six-year-old British-born boy left stranded and ‘stateless’ after Home Office revokes his passport

A six-year-old boy born in Britain to a British father may be left stateless after immigration officials declared his passport and citizenship of this country a mistake. Leeds-born Mohamed Bangoura, who is due back at school in Sheffield next week, is stranded in Belgium after the Home Office denied him permission to board a flight …