Tag: Slave Trade
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Colonial powers must pay for slave trade – Caribbean leader
Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell on Thursday said former colonial powers must apologise and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans.
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Peter Obi urges blacks to shade-off slave trade psyche
Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the Feb. 25, 2023 election, has urged blacks to deploy their abundant natural resources and talents to shade off the slave trade effect. Obi, the former governor of Anambra , made this known in a statement
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Climate Reparations: Gordon Brown’s Initiative and Its Resonance with the Legacy of the Slave Trade – By Magnus Onyibe
In recent years, we’ve witnessed a striking increase in extreme weather events worldwide. We’ve observed snowfall in regions that were once considered desert landscapes. A notable example of this transformation unfolded in California, USA, where devastating wildfires and extensive flooding have left communities grappling with the consequences.
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Jesus is a slave trader (1) – By Femi Aribisala
I write in my new book: “Kingdom Dynamics: The Day of My Death,” that Jesus saved my life and then took my life. He saved me because He wanted to kill me. As a result, my Saviour became my adversary and killer. That is kingdom dynamics.
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Slave trade: Oyeama leads FG’s delegation to evacuate stranded Nigerians in Libya
The federal government’s special delegation, led by Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, on Wednesday departed Abuja for Tripoli, the Libyan Capital to evacuate Nigerians trapped in that country. The Head, Press and Public Relations of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Josiah Emerole, made this known in a statement in…
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Slave trade: Buhari inaugurates 17-man committee to rescue, stop exodus of Nigerians to Libya
In a bid to stop the continuous exodus of some Nigerians to Libya with the hope of crossing to the Western world through the Mediterranean and also rescue those who has still trapped in that country, President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a 17-man fact-finding mission. The team may also open talks with Libyan authorities…
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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, 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…