Category: Foreign

Authorities rescue 10 children in Panama sex trafficking operation

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10 children were rescued and three people in Panama and Costa Rica were arrested by Panamanian authorities on Thursday, in an operation to disrupt a sex trafficking ring,. “The victims in this case range between the ages of four and 16 and the people involved are close relatives” of the minors, said Emeldo Marquez, a senior Panamanian prosecutor. He explained that the relatives “facilitated” the shipment of the children from the town of Baru, 525 kilometres southwest of Panama City, to the Costa Rican border, to be sexually exploited. In…

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British socialite convicted of sex trafficking

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Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite, was found guilty in New York on Wednesday of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell faces spending the rest of her life behind bars after the 12-person jury convicted her on five of the six counts she was facing, including the most serious charge of sex trafficking a minor. The conviction, just days after she turned 60 on Christmas, caps a remarkable fall from grace for the Oxford-educated daughter of the late British press baron…

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OY-ITC, BuyNaija in partnership for Houston Trade Show 2022

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The Organization of Youths in International Trade and Commerce, OY-ITC, has revealed that a trade mission to the USA, tagged the Houston Trade Show has been slated for February, 2022. The trade mission, in partnership with BuyNaija and the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment is designed to share with the world the creativity and productivity of the Nigerian youths; supports the development and advancement of Nigerian youths in international trade and commerce; while consolidating the leadership capacities among young Nigerians. The OY-ITC is also collaborating with Committee of…

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NTDC DG Folorunsho Coker Attends UNWTO General Assembly In Spain …as Nigeria gets readmitted as affiliate member

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The Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Mr. Folorunsho Coker was a participant at the just concluded General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) where the Corporation was readmitted as an affiliate member of the organization. The UNWTO General Assembly took place in Madrid, Spain from November 30 to December 3, 2021. Recall that NTDC was removed from affiliate membership of the organization over non-payment of membership dues by previous Director’s General of the Corporation. It was however, gathered that NTDC, under the leadership…

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Lionel Messi wins seventh Ballon d’Or

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Paris Saint-Germain’s Argentine forward, Lionel Messi has won a record seventh Ballon d’Or, beating Robert Lewandowski and Jorginho to the title. The forward inspired Argentina to their first Copa America title since 1993, ending his long wait for silverware at international level. He also lifted the Copa del Rey with Barcelona before joining Paris Saint-Germain last summer. Messi collected his seventh Ballon d’Or during a ceremony in the French capital on Monday evening. The Paris Saint-Germain superstar faced stern competition from the likes of Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski and Chelsea’s…

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Nigerian lady wrongly jailed in Ivory Coast dies in prison, FG orders probe

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Itunu Babalola, a 23-year-old woman, who was wrongly incarcerated in Cote d’Ivoire, is dead. Babalola died on Sunday after suffering from diabetes. Babalola, a trader based in Bondoukou, Cote d’Ivoire, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment after a theft case she reported to the police was turned against her. It was learnt that the victim had been in prison since 2019 after she refused to grant the request of a Divisional Police Officer to drop the case. A journalist, David Hundeyin, who shared Babalola’s story on Twitter, explained that the…

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GUARANTY TRUST HOLDING COMPANY STAGES MUSIC CONCERT IN GHANA

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Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc, parent company of Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Ltd, holds its first-ever show outside the shores of Nigeria tagged: GTCO Music Concert: Live in Ghana! From the curators of the GTBank Fashion Weekend and GTBank Food and Drink Festival–two of Africa’s most celebrated showpiece events–comes the biggest corporate event of the year. This inaugural event will hold in the main bowl of the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday, 17 December 2021 and will feature performances from some of Africa’s brightest breakout stars of both Ghanaian and…

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Suicide attack on Kabul military hospital leaves 19 dead

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In an attack on a military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, at least 19 people lost their lives while 50 others were wounded. The attack got under way when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the entrance of the sprawling site. Gunmen then broke into the hospital grounds, firing their weapons there, the Taliban said. “Nineteen dead bodies and about 50 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in Kabul,” a health ministry official who asked not to be named said. The Taliban spent 20 years waging an insurgency…

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IS claims responsibility of deadly bombing in Kampala

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The Islamic State (IS) group on Monday claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a restaurant in Uganda at the weekend that police called an ‘act of domestic terrorism. Investigators said a 20-year-old woman was killed and three others injured in a blast at a popular roadside eatery in northern Kampala on Saturday evening. Police said the crude bomb left underneath a table indicated the work of an unsophisticated local outfit, and played down any connection to foreign networks. However in a message sent via its communication channels, the Islamic…

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Prop gun fired by Alec Baldwin kills woman on movie set

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US law enforcement officers on Thursday revealed that US actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on a film set in New Mexico. The incident happened on the set of “Rust” in the southwestern US state, where Baldwin is playing the lead in a 19th-century western. Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza “were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin,” the sheriff in Santa Fe said in a statement. Hutchins, 42, was transported to hospital by helicopter but died of…

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