The recent conviction and subsequent sentencing of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, elicited mixed reactions among Nigerians. While some were sympathetic and mild, quite a lot of Nigerians were full of condemnation for the jailed politician. However, regardless of the side of the divide one chooses to belong to, one indisputable truth is that his sentencing left big lessons for the ruling class and members of the elite club in Nigeria.
It is no longer news that a court in the United Kingdom, a fortnight ago, sentenced Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and doctor, Obinna Obeta …
In the last four years, the General Buhari administration has taken more foreign debt than almost all past administrations of the last 30 years put together. I am not referring to domestic debt, which does not have the capacity to enslave a nation. I am referring to foreign debt.
Despite the shenanigans of this administration to obscure the fact, the truth, as I said during my Arise TV interview, is that on May 29, 2015, the Jonathan government handed over to the Buhari administration and left it with a foreign debt of $10. 3 billion. Of that amount, $7 …
Nigeria was the main country of origin of the migrants arriving across the Mediterranean to Italy in 2016 and 2017, though their numbers have since dropped.
Many of the arrivals were women and girls lured to Europe with false promises of jobs as hairdressers or seamstresses, only to find themselves selling sex on arrival to repay their debts.
Nigerians now outnumber Chinese or
400 years ago, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Point Comfort on the shores of Virginia. The landing marked the beginning of slavery in British North America, forever transforming the modern world.
Reports of suspected modern slavery in Britain rose by more than a third in 2018, according to government data released on Tuesday, but campaigners said even that was likely only “the tip of the iceberg”.
Police, charities and other first responders referred 6,993 potential modern slavery cases to the government’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM) last year, 36% more than in 2017, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said in its annual report.
The NRM is a national scheme whereby victims are identified and can receive support ranging from healthcare and housing to legal aid.
Anti-slavery campaigners said it was unclear whether …
