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By Akanimo Sampson The United Nations migration agency, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has assisted 142 stranded Ethiopians to safely return home from Djibouti. The returnees who were en-route to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were stranded in Djibouti where smugglers abandoned them after robbing them of their money, leaving them with no means to continue their journey or return to Ethiopia. “I worked as an assistant loader for a truck for two years to save four thousand birr ($135)”, Edris Ahmed (name changed) told IOM. “We paid 2,000 birr ($70) for the smuggler to get us to…

By Akanimo Sampson At a major conference on the brain drain phenomenon at the headquarters of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations agency warned that Central and Eastern European countries are seeing dramatic shifts in their migration patterns, changing the makeup of communities and posing heretofore unseen challenges. With 57 participating States in North America, Europe and Asia, OSCE is the world’s largest regional security organisation. It works for stability, peace and democracy for more than a billion people, through political dialogue about shared values and through practical work that…

By Akanimo Sampson The Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, has said that continued military operations in Syria will have devastating consequences for the seven million people living in the Northern axis of the troubled country. According to the big boss of the United Nations migration agency, ‘’the cycle of successive displacement is particularly concerning.’’ Many of Syria’s 6.1 million internally displaced have been repeatedly forced from their homes, in some cases after they have returned to their communities. Between May and August of this year, fighting displaced an estimated 400,000 Syrians in the northwest of the country. Vitorino said…

A Ghanaian clergyman has asked Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State “When you get to that top, return my sword to me.” Presenting a well-decorated sword to the governor in his church, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, founder of Action Chapel International in Accra, Ghana, noted “But until then keep it. May the Lord guide you and as you hold this sword in your hand maintain it until you climb to the mountain!” Excited Duncan-Williams, who played host to the governor during a recent three-day Prophetic encounter gathering, recalled “Before the election, I lifted up a sword over you here and…

Nationwide strike is imminent on Wednesday, October 16 as talks between the organized labour and the Federal Government has collapsed. The follows failure by both parties to reach a truce on the terms for the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage signed into law on April 18. But, Nigeria’s Labour and Employment Minister, Chris Ngige, has described the proposed strike by organised labour as an attempt to intimidate the government. A report monitored from TVC NEWS, Lagos said the stalemate ensued as meeting by both sides could stave off the showdown, action which will either result in the suspension of…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP National Legal Adviser, Mr. Emmanuel Enoidem, has accused Ndutimi Alaibe, the failed PDP Governorship aspirant of Bayelsa State of running away from the state over purported insecurity. Enoidem was reacting to approval granted by the Chief Judge for the transfer of Alaibe’s suit challenging the emergence of Senator Douye Diri in the November 16 election to Abuja. This follows the ruling in a suit by governorship aspirant that the case would no longer be heard at the Federal High Court, Yenagoa. “Why is he running away? Is this not the state he wanted to govern?…

Higher food prices helped push up annual inflation in Nigeria last month after three consecutive months of declines, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. Nigerian inflation rose to 11.24% in September from 11.02% in August, which was its lowest in almost four years. Inflation had been falling steadily since May. The International Monetary Fund, IMF, said last week that the planned introduction of a sales tax to partly finance the government’s record 2020 budget and a new minimum wage could help drive up inflation. Tuesday’s data showed food price inflation, the main driver of overall inflation rose to…

Akwa Ibom government’s request to Smec International Pty Ltd. for partnership that would produce the Rwandan model of development is receiving listening ears. SMEC, an Australian company under the canopy of Penniel Exploration and Production Limited is said to have designed the Master plan of Kigali, capital of Rwanda. Kigali, capital of Rwanda was the butt of the Rwandan Civil War which lasted from 1990 to 1994, from the long-running dispute between the Hutu and Tutsi groups within the Rwandan population, forcing more than 336,000 Tutsi to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. However, Kigali rising from the internecine war that…

By Akanimo Sampson A month after the landing of Hurricane Dorian, an agency of the United Nations has launched a $10 million appeal as the funding requirement from last September until April 2020 to enhance support to the government of The Bahamas related to the recovery efforts. The death toll after the Category-5 storm has increased to 61 persons and over 600 are still missing. The UN agency, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says the $10 million will support its operations focusing on Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM); shelter and Non-Food Items (NFI); Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM); Integrated…

Cristiano Ronaldo has lost count of the number of records he has broken, Portugal forward said after scoring the 700th goal of his career during a 2-1 defeat to Ukraine on Monday. “The records come naturally, I don’t look for them, the records look for me,” he told reporters after scoring his 95th goal for his country. “It is not for anyone to reach this number and I thank everyone, team mates, colleagues, coaches and everyone who helped Cristiano become the player that he is.” However, Ronaldo said that the defeat to Ukraine in a Euro 2020 qualifier took some…