Crime

This is the second part of the investigation revealing how Nigerians, especially under age girls, are sold into slavery in Egypt. WALE AJETUNMOBI, who followed the trail of traffickers to El Ashiru, the slave market in Egypt,…
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REPORT BY WALE AJETUNMOBI How human traffickers and underage victims' families conspire to sell them into slavery How much is a human worth? With just $2,000, an underage girl is sold as a slave in Egypt where human…
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On every school day, for the past two years, fourteen-year-old Patience Mbaze walks through Olusegun Obasanjo Way in order to get to Junior Secondary School, Wuse Zone 2, where she studies. But her unavoidable journey is…
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Despite the horrid experiences of illegal migrants at the hands of human traffickers in Libya, many Nigerians, especially female teenagers and young adults, are still being exploited and brainwashed by a trafficking ring in Edo State,…
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BY AGALI CHARLES The sun still rises in Ekosodin, a tiny precinct detached from the Ugbowo campus of the University of Benin by a towering fence. But its brightness pales into insignificance for students who trudge the erosion-ridden…
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By Ibanga Isine When Nduma Wilson flagged a cab on December 11, 2015, she had only one thing in mind: how to get to the Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, where she worked. However, things would not go as planned. As soon as…
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By Abiose Adelaja Adams Forty one year old Monday Ilade Prosper is, indeed, a lucky man. He walked free from the condemned persons’ cell of the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in Lagos last Monday after spending 10 years on death row…
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