Madagascar, for the first time, Senegal and former champions Tunisia and Egypt sealed places at the Africa Cup of Nations finals Tuesday with two matches to spare. Njiva Rakotoharimalala scored four minutes before half-time to earn Madagascar a 1-0 Group A victory over Equatorial Guinea on the vast Indian Ocean island. In the same mini-league, […]
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Tragedy struck in Benin, the Edo State capital, on Friday, when a Libya Returnee, simply identified as Orobosa, hacked a middle-aged man to death over the use of his father’s bathroom by the wife of the victim. The victim, Chimeze Okereke, reportedly died from injuries sustained after he was stabbed by his landlord’s son several […]
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Some 400 detainees escaped after a riot on Sunday at a prison in the southern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli, as a skirmish between rival militias raged. “The detainees were able to force open the doors and leave,” Libyan police said in a statement quoted by AFP. However, the police did not specify what crimes the escapees […]
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Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly matters (senate), has attributed the high level of insecurity in the country to the “collapse of Libya and Mali”. Speaking when he hosted students of the Nigerian Law School, Abuja on Friday, the presidential aide said the policy of the ECOWAS free movement protocol […]
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More than 200 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean from January to June, bringing the overall death toll so far this year to more than 1,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said. IOM said the tragic weekend began on Friday with two shipwrecks adding to the alarming increase in migrant deaths off Libya […]
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At least 100 students from just one secondary school (Idogbo Secondary School) in Benin, have been trafficked to Libya in the last four months. This was disclosed in Benin on Sunday during an advocacy programme by the Senior Special Assistant to Gov Godwin Obaseki on Human trafficking and illegal migration, Mr Solomon Okoduwa. Okoduwa said […]
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Some returnees from Edo State on Tuesday staged a protest over what they described as a “systematic delay” in the payment of their monthly stipends. It was alleged that the state Task Force against Human Trafficking, had breach the terms they had, the placard-carrying returnees therefore called for the dissolution of the task force. Some […]
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The UN on Tuesday accused armed groups in Libya of killing and torturing detainees in prisons, some nominally under government control, where thousands of civilians are being unlawfully held. The human rights office and UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL ) said in a report that successive governments in Tripoli have allowed the armed groups […]
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The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has placed each Libya returnee in Edo State on three months salaries. A statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Desmond Agbama, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday said Oba Ewuare, announced this when he hosted to Libyan returnees in his palace. Apart […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Wednesday received 152 Nigerians, assisted back to the country from Libya, by the International Organisation for Migration. The returnees, who arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 9.05pm, were made up of 69 adult females including three pregnant women, 73 adult males, four children and six infants. […]
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