"The problem with FFK? He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot…" — Patrick Obahiagbo Three days earlier Three days after Fani-Kayode is the son of the former Deputy premier of Western Region who was popularly called FaniPower The mythology of …
There’s actually no right to family life in the UK By Iain Halliday
Everyone in the UK has the right to respect for their family life under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. But as a migrant from outside the European Economic Area, what do you actually need in order to be able to stay in the UK on the basis of your family life? …
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“The Chameleon in Theodore Orji” by Orji Uzor Kalu 2014
In a piece titled "The Chameleon in Theodore Orji", former Abia state Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu bared his thoughts about his successor and one time friend, Theodore Orji, calling him a chameleon. In the no-holds-barred piece, Uzor Kalu spoke about how he made Theodore Orji a governor and how his former friend turned his back …
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Inside Baltimore’s human trafficking industry
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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Nigerians’ double blow: Currency woes and Covid-19 By Ijeoma Ndukwe
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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Centre for Nigeria Progress 