Emeka Ejere || The U.N. migration agency Friday called on social media giants on to make it harder for people smugglers to use their platforms to lure West African migrants to Libya where they can face detention, torture, slavery or death. The smugglers often use Facebook to reach would-be migrants with false promises of jobs…
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Emeka Ejere || Nigeria’s Seven-Up Bottling Company will hold a meeting of shareholders in January to approve a bid by majority investor Affelka to buy out minorities in a 19.33 billion naira ($61.5m) takeover. Affelka, the investment firm of the Lebanese El-Khalil family, would not vote at the Jan. 11 meeting which has been ordered…
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The US envoy to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, on Friday accused the UN of damaging the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. According to Haley, The United Nation, “has outrageously been one of the world’s foremost centres of hostility towards Israel”, she said. Mrs. Haley was addressing an emergency meeting of the…
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Ebun Francis || Nigeria’s immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan on Friday distanced himself from reports that he is supporting some particular candidates for any of the elective positions in the Saturday National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a felicitation message released by his media office ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party election,…
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