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Read Babatunde Raji Fashola’s “Takeaway” on President Buhari’s Foreign Trips

In making this public intervention, I seek to highlight the benefit of global relationships and cooperation in a world that is changing daily as a result of globalisation and transborder economics, social and even criminal activities where no one is safe, except all are safe, and to leave the dispassionate observer his opinion after deep reflection on the value, or lack of it, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s foreign trips. (more…)

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Why The Hate For Linda Ikeji?

Like seriously, why is there so much hate for one particular blogger, our Queen blogger, Linda Ikeji!?  (i say that with all seriousness and no lol) And when compared to men, the majority of the hate is been committed by women!  My lord, I think we have the case of jealousy with first class, so watch the video above for more evidence.    

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Dilma Rousseff impeachment: what happens next in Brazil

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday as a hostile and corruption-tainted congress voted to impeach her. In a rowdy session of the lower house presided over by the president’s nemesis, house speaker Eduardo Cunha, voting ended late on Sunday evening with 367 of the 513 deputies backing impeachment – comfortably beyond the two-thirds majority of 342 needed to advance the case to the upper house. (more…)

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UK firm ’employed former child soldiers’ as mercenaries in Iraq

A former senior director at a British firm says that it employed mercenaries from Sierra Leone to work in Iraq because they were cheaper than Europeans and did not check if they were former child soldiers. James Ellery, who was a director of Aegis Defence Services between 2005 and 2015, said that contractors had a “duty” to recruit from countries such as Sierra Leone, “where there’s high unemployment and a decent workforce”, in order to reduce costs for the US presence in Iraq. (more…)