Tag: EU
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Slave trade: NAPTIP, NIS, partner EU, others on trafficking, migration in Nigeria
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, and Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, have partnered with the European Union, EU, the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, on how to combat illegal migration and human trafficking in the country. The Director General of NAPTIP,…
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Slave trade: Amnesty International accuses EU of abetting migrant rights violations in Libya
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused European governments of abetting grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for authorities there that often work with people smugglers and torture refugees and migrants. Determined to cut African immigration across the Mediterranean, the governments, via the EU, have provided support to Libya, trained its coastguard and spent…
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Slave Trade, Human Trafficking: AU, EU must collaborate to tackle menace in Libya – Onyeama
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has called for a joint declaration by the African Union and European Union on the issue of slave trade and other crimes against humanity in Libya. Onyeama who made the call at the Ministerial meeting of the just concluded 5th African Union- European Union Summit in Abidjan, Cote…
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2015 Presidential Election: EU denies favouring Buhari, praises Jonathan for conceding defeat
The European Union, EU, has denied favouring President Muhammadu Buhari above other candidates during the 2015 Presidential Elections in Nigeria. Santiago Fisas, the former Chief Observer of the 2015 EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM), and Member of the European Parliament, said this in Abuja on Sunday while making clarification on EU assessment of the…
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Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu petitions UN, US, EU others over alleged invasion of his country home
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has petitioned the United States of America, USA, European Union, EU, and the United Nations, UN over the alleged invasion of his country home by operatives of Nigerian Army last Sunday. In the petition dated September 14 and signed by his counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor,…
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Google bitter over $2.74 billion EU fine
Google is presently wiping off bitter tears after being slammed with a recording-breaking fine of $2.74 billion by the European Union (EU). TheNewsGuru reports Google was recently fined a whooping amount of $2.74 billion by the EU for abusing its dominance within the Commission’s domain. Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. late Friday confirming the development…
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Putin extends Russian-counter sanctions on EU till 2018
President Vladimir Putin has extended Russian counter-sanctions on the European Union until the end of 2018, according to a presidential decree published on Friday. On Wednesday the EU formally extended its economic sanctions on Russia, imposed in July 2014 in response to Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and Moscow’s support for separatists in eastern…
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Google to pay $2.7 billion for abusing its dominance
The European Union (EU) has fined Google a record-breaking 2.4 billion-euro ($2.7 billion) in what is just a fraction of the costs from the EU’s demand that the Internet giant stop skewing search results to favour its own shopping site gaining ‘undue’ dominance in so doing. To some smaller businesses, this might mean ‘torn apart’,…
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube form grand alliance
A host of Internet tech giants have teamed up to form a grand alliance known as Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism with the aim to help make their hosted consumer services hostile to terrorists and violent extremists. The spread of terrorism and violent extremism has become a pressing global problem and a critical challenge…