Nigerian women, including minors, are being trafficked to cote d’Ivoie for forced prostitution, according to international group, Human Right Watch, Empowered Newswire reports.
In a statement issued on Thursday in Washington D.C., the US-based organisation said on one occasion, its investigators met with groups of about 30 Nigerian women trafficked to the West African nation for prostitution.
Criticising the Ivorien government, the human…
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A Nigerian woman, Chinwe Masi, 47, on August 19 died in the United States home of Ex-Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. Chinwe died from suspected internal organ failure that may have been triggered by ingestion of alcohol. She suffered from high blood pressure according to friends.
Chinwe, formerly married to one Okechukwu Ogbonna, reportedly arrived the ex-governor’s home at 14900 River Road, Potomac, Maryland at 8.30 pm on the fateful day, Thursday, August 19. According to…
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Project Fame Studios located inside Murhi International premises in flames last night.
PHOTO: AKIN FARINTO.
Equipment worth billions of naira were lost yesterday as fire razed Ultima Limited’s studios where MTN sponsored programmes; Project Fame and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are recorded.
The studios, which are located inside Murhi International House, Omole junction, Isheri Road, Ojodu, were gutted by fire at…
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Residents of Ogele, a community near Eiyekorin in Ilorin, Kwara State, were on Monday evening thrown into mourning as a policeman from the state mobile police unit allegedly shot and killed an assistant driver of a truck and injured another.
The victim, one Dele Olaniyi, died on the spot, while another assistant driver, Waheed Jamiu, was seriously wounded and as at Monday night receiving treatment at the General Hospital Ilorin, the state… Continue
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After twice visiting Mecca, the Islamic holy city, one would expect Alhaji Idowu Saliu to live above board like Ceasar’s wife.
But the police are claiming that Saliu is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
According to them, he has been the Second-in-Command of a gang of suspected robbers who were snatching exotic cars and selling them at giveaway prices.
Saliu, with his suspected partner in crime, Saheed Onitolo, were caught…
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The Recovered truck.
THE combined efforts of both the Lagos State Police Command and the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele road, Lagos, frustrated the attempted diversion of a truck loaded with 40 feet container, containing three tractors, valued at several millions of naira belonging to the Borno State government by a syndicate.
The syndicate led by…
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Rogue Candidate: Former Military Dictator, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
Written By Francis Falola, Minna
Members of a group campaigning for the emergence of the former military dictator, Gen Ibrahim Babangida, as President in…
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Musa Yar'adua, the Aso Rock gunner, shows his Father's Wild Side. Image taken from "The Wild Little Ones" Yar'adua's Son, Musa
The wild teenage son of Umaru Yar'adua, Musa Yar'adua is here toying with a MOPOL weapon at the Aso Rock grounds. Do we need anymore fortune teller to reveal that a wild child like this will grow up to become a menace to the world? His father died in May from an…
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Determined to tackle crime and criminals in Ogun State and ensure that citizens sleep with their eyes closed, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Musa Daura, has ordered 24 hours vigilance on different areas of the state, leading to arrest of some suspected criminals.
Daura said his men, attached to various divisions within the state, were combat ready to fish out criminals disturbing the state, no matter the holes they had crawled into after…
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Monday, 23 August 2010.
TRAGEDY struck in Enugu the Enugu State capital, on Sunday, when fire that gutted a two bedroom apartment at Abakpa Nike, a suburb of Enugu metropolis, claimed the lives of three family members.
The fire disaster was said to have engulfed the entire apartment at 7, Nwamadu Street , Ugbene II Abakpa
Nike, Enugu and destroyed property worth millions of…
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About 10 persons sustained various degrees of injury in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Sunday evening, as members of the Izala and Tijaniya/Adriya Islamic sects clashed in the Hausa community of Sabo, Mokola.
Mostly affected were members of the Izala sect.
While some were said to have been stoned, others reportedly sustained machete cuts.
It took the intervention of the police for normalcy to be restored to the troubled…
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•As NDLEA arrests 20
One of the saddest people among the 20 drug traffickers arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), was Igbinigie Tina, a mother of two.
Tina claimed she would not have gone into drug trafficking, if customers who bought shoes and bags from her had paid up.
As soon as Tina was nabbed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport,Lagos, for…
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TRAGEDY struck on Ediba Road, Calabar, the Cross River State capital, about three days ago, when a man allegedly beat his pregnant wife to death.
The man, Solomon Ogbeide, a retired Army officer who hails from Edo State, was said to have been enraged by the refusal of his late wife, Esther Essien, to use her cell phone.
The late Esther…
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Officers of the NNS Victory of the Nigerian Navy in Calabar, Cross River State capital, have held nine suspected illegal loggers.
The suspects, all from Akwa Ibom State, were said to have been arrested at about 7.30 a.m., on Friday, at Parrot Island in the state, while heading to Oron in Akwa Ibom State from Macauley Village in Cameroon.
Parading the suspects before newsmen at the NNS Victory jetty, Commanding Officer NNS Victory, Commodore Jeremiah…
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ASP to die by hanging
... Over murder of varsity student
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Barely a week after the accident caused by a police checkpoint in which 30 people reportedly lost their lives in Lagos State, SouthWest Nigeria, a police check point has caused another accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, near Berger bridge bus stop.

•Scene of the accident at the police checkpoint this morning. PHOTO: OLATUNJI OBASA.…
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Tragedy struck, on Wednesday, at Agbowo, Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, when a 14-year-old Mutiu Ade-kunle committed suicide.
The Junior Secondary School (JSS) Three student decided to hang himself at the back of his grand-mother’s house, located at Kola Adedoyin Street, Agbowo, around 12 noon.…
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IBB and his media executives at the night press conference.
The former Nigerian dictator did not spare anything while in power. He looted the national treasury, closed down universities for several months at a time, he murdered his opponents, jailed journalists and closed down several newspapers.
IBB was so confident that nothing would happen to him, so he admitted to a news magazine that his favorite alias was the "Evil…
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