The United Nations says more than 12 African migrants were shot dead by human traffickers while attempting to escape a camp in Libya, where some were subjected to “torture” and “abuse and exploitation”. “Human traffickers in Libya reportedly killed more than a dozen people and wounded many others after a group of some 200 Eritreans, […]
There were about 41 million people counted as international migrants either coming from, going to or moving within Africa, said a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2018 report on migration unveiled on Thursday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. While some 19 million resided in Africa, 17 million left the continent while […]
There is a steady flow of customers, the dirt car park is filled with vehicles, and the stalls at Oluwo market in Epe outside Lagos city are full. The market is one of the biggest in this West African country where bushmeat is sold. The mood is festive and everyone from traders to customers appears […]
The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to mandate the Localisation of Data and Operations by Telecoms firms in the country in the interest of national security. The house urged the Federal Ministry of Communications to take necessary action to address all undermining activities of the telecommunication firms operating in Nigeria by […]
Popular American Gospel Singer, Kirk Franklin has frowned at a request by a pastor, Jessie Duplantis for donations to buy his fourth air plane at the cost of $54 million. Duplantis is an Evangelical Charismatic Christian Minister based in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, and the founder of Jesse Duplantis Ministries. The “Thank you’’ hit maker […]
Human traffickers are planning to exploit relaxed Russian visa controls for next month’s World Cup to sell Nigerian women into sex work, state officials and anti-slavery activists said. Officials in Nigeria said they had intelligence showing plans were well underway to traffic local women into Russia for the football tournament, exploiting a move by Moscow […]
The Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company (IVM) on Wednesday said that its efforts to upgrade from 10,000 cars production capacity annually to 60,000 were being hampered by litigations against the company. The company’s Head, Corporate Communications, Mr Cornel Osigwe, who made the disclosure at a news conference in Lagos, said the factory’s upgrading from manual to […]
Angolan cargoes were gradually clearing on Wednesday, helping nudge crude differentials higher, while unfavourable arbitrages and an influx of U.S. grades into refineries in northwest Europe and the Mediterranean continued to undermine the Nigerian market. * State firm Sonangol was said to be offering Dalia at a discount of $1.30 to dated Brent. Only a […]
More than 2,200 migrants have been rescued since last Friday in the Mediterranean Sea between Northern Africa and Italy, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday. “30,300 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea through the first 147 days of 2018, with about 40 percent arriving in Italy, 35 percent in Greece, with the remainder […]
The Nigerian government has yet again reinstated its commitment to revamping the nation’s ailing economy by investing in the Nigerian people. President Muhammadu Buhari made this known Tuesday in his Democracy Day speech. Buhari said in 2016, the present administration executed an expansionary budget and developed the Strategic Implementation Plan, to engender growth. He said, […]