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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report on trafficking in persons that the most common form of human trafficking (79 per cent) was for sexual exploitation.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye had on April 27, 2016 ordered Mohammed and Metuh to settle their dispute at the mediation court.

“We believe that the US, but not any other country, may mount a nuclear attack,” Choe Hui, the Head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Department on North American Affairs, said.

he decision of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi in picking Otunba Adams as the new Generalissimo after about 20 years of wait, the former Governor said, is divine and a sacredly delayed act in order to choose the anointed one

Adewale Oloyede, the Chairman of the Joint Action Committee of ARCN, made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria quoting Google’s spokesman, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, reports that hundreds of Nigerians took to the internet search engine to know more about Equiano.

Opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has pulled out, alleging a failure to improve oversight of the election, casting doubt on how the vote will proceed.

He said: “We are consistent in calling for the return of US nuclear weapons back to the national territory and for ending the so-called joint NATO missions, which in violation of the non-proliferation regime envisages , where non-nuclear…

The Head of the National Elections Commission, Jerome Korkoya, announced the final results of the presidential and parliamentary polls in the country on Friday, noting the electoral body was set for the runoff exercise.

Okoye told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Friday that Obiano, who assumed office on March 17, 2014, inherited 101 projects from the former Governor Peter Obi’s administration out of which 51 have been completed.

He said the state Fire Service saved property worth N5 million in the fires that broke out in the state within the period.

Ikenna Ezendu, the Public Relations Officer of the board, via a statement issued on Friday in Abuja, said the exercise was to ascertain the actual number of pensioners.

Aziz said in a statement on Friday in Lagos that Nigerians should regard the NIN as a most crucial feature of their lives, since it was the unique identifier for all in the country.

Mallam Mohammed Abdullahi, the Secretary to the Nasarawa State Government, made this disclosure in a statement he made available to newsmen in Lafia.

Italian Culture Minister, Dario Franceschini, attended a handover ceremony at the Italian consulate in New York, a statement from his office said on Friday.

The ANSA news agency said arson on the part of the father was suspected because rescuers found piled up material at the entrance of the flat, presumably used to start the fire.

Abdukareem said this during a convocation lecture preparatory to the 33rd Convocation for the 2016/2017 Graduation of the university in Ilorin.

“We don’t leave anyone behind. He was separated,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said of Johnson, whose body wasn’t recovered until more than 24 hours after the October 4 fire-fight.

The first presidential vote in August, which gave victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta, was annulled because of procedural irregularities.

Pro-independence umbrella group Crida Democracia called on consumers late Thursday to put pressure on banks that made the decision.