REVEALED: CNN exposes Paris park where Nigerian women are forced into prostitution

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehIxeBTYvnYISYaMwY_JTactxbjhbnqr9-n5plaozWRDpEkr-VyKSyUEm1g3DgSBiejUf9lLNGPbZiit1KGFRIDVk2J1UMJZEdxuwzruPvWjey7Gq9Xc0fGku4eew1sEAdXaKAiwWQRuo/s1600/prostitutes+dd.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="757" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehIxeBTYvnYISYaMwY_JTactxbjhbnqr9-n5plaozWRDpEkr-VyKSyUEm1g3DgSBiejUf9lLNGPbZiit1KGFRIDVk2J1UMJZEdxuwzruPvWjey7Gq9Xc0fGku4eew1sEAdXaKAiwWQRuo/s400/prostitutes+dd.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <b><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/04/africa/paris-nigerian-women-trafficking/index.html">A new report by the CNN</a></b> has revealed how some women trafficked from Nigeria are forced into prostitution in a park in Paris, capital city of France.<br /> <br /> Over the years, stories of women deceived into giving up their money for a “better life” in Europe but later forced into prostitution, have made news headlines.<br /> <br /> In the recent discovery, the Bois de Vincennes, a park on the outskirts of eastern Paris, is popular with joggers and boules players during the day but a business spot for Nigerian s.e.x workers when darkness descends.<br /> <br /> Nadège (not real name), one of the trafficked women, who managed to escape, told CNN how a female Nigerian pimp, “Madam” she met in Lagos promised her a job as a waitress in Europe.<br /> <br /> “I was told it was like a paradise but getting here, it was like from frying pan to fire,” Negede said.<br /> <br /> Nadège, 20, was trafficked from Nigeria to France and forced into s.e.x.u.a.l slavery at €20 ($23).<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> She and other girls would later have to pay off a huge debt of €50,000 ($57,690) and sometimes more, to Madam.<br /> <br /> According to Nadège, before leaving Nigeria, the victims were made to take an oath at a “juju” temple never to speak about their deal with madam nor the debts they owe her.<br /> <br /> She said they were made to lie in a coffin while taking the oath, with a threat of death (return to the coffin) if they broke the rules.<br /> <br /> Nagede said she travelled from Nigeria to France with a fake passport her madam gave her. She was sent to work in the Bois a week after she arrived.<br /> <br /> Her madam gave her a €100 daily target and took away her passport and all her earnings, except money for food and rent.<br /> <br /> “Sometimes you work from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the morning, maybe get home by 8 a.m.,” she said.<br /> <br /> She would start work again, elsewhere, from 3 pm. “Until 6 p.m., then you have to go to your normal place of work.”<br /> <br /> Nagede said she cut ties with her madam when she got pregnant a year later and decided to keep her baby.<br /> <br /> She said after her escape, “I was waiting patiently for the death or the madness. I was like… ‘Should I go over to the street and start working? Should I abort my baby?'”<br /> <br /> Nagede discouraged other young ladies against journeying to Europe in search of greener pastures, saying: “Don’t even think of it.”<br /> <br /> “Even now I don’t have hope for myself. My past already destroyed my future,” She said.<br /> <br /> “No matter what I am tomorrow, I am still going to be useless, because, I can’t proudly say my story.<br /> <br /> In March, CNN has published a report of how Nima Elbagir, one of its correspondents, went undercover in order to have a first-hand experience of migrants who risk their lives to Europe through the desert.<br /> <br /> Josephine Iyamu, a nurse of Nigerian descent, was in the same month, found guilty by a British court of trafficking five women to Germany for prostitution.

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Lagos PDP guber primary: Jimi Agbaje optimistic of winning

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6p0ujYT2F79InsDC-3D95o5qWkshEa1u8xtLD1oYtlkvg5oKlWtmPs8rdU_VNkvHkEtHcWjniRhd-EfksHBYVX3OQTobHrwTaQ9g7vi3dUaJoe9XOgh_RdInK08xhogVTbkCGTN0QUgbV/s1600/Mr.-Jimi-Agbaje.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="540" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6p0ujYT2F79InsDC-3D95o5qWkshEa1u8xtLD1oYtlkvg5oKlWtmPs8rdU_VNkvHkEtHcWjniRhd-EfksHBYVX3OQTobHrwTaQ9g7vi3dUaJoe9XOgh_RdInK08xhogVTbkCGTN0QUgbV/s640/Mr.-Jimi-Agbaje.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> A governorship aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mr Jimi Agbaje on Thursday said he believed he would emerge the candidate of the party.<br /> <br /> Agbaje expressed the belief while speaking with newsmen at the party’s primary for the governorship ticket.<br /> <br /> No fewer than 2000 delegates from the 20 local government areas are voting in the exercise.<br /> <br /> The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that accreditation and voting which started around 11am was still on-going at 8.20p.m.<br /> <br /> Agbaje, who was the party’s candidate in the 2015 election, is battling for the ticket with Mr Adedeji Doherty.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> “I believe I will win; If I do not have the belief, I would not be running this race,” Agbaje said.<br /> <br /> He said he was motivated to seek the number one seat in the state out of the passion to serve.<br /> <br /> Agbaje said he believed the country and Lagos could be made better than they were.<br /> <br /> “A lot of people look at Lagos like it is the best thing in the world.<br /> <br /> “We can be the best in Nigeria, but there is plenty room for improvement.<br /> <br /> “I strongly believe that we can make more giant strides,” he said.<br /> <br /> The aspirant said that there was the need for leaders to begin to do things right in order to inspire younger generations and leave a lasting legacy.<br /> <br /> Agbaje said that the country would be a better place with adequate investment in healthcare, education and in other critical sectors.<br /> <br /> The aspirant expressed satisfaction in the conduct of the primary so far, saying he believed it would be a success.<br /> <br /> Also speaking, Doherty said the delegate system the party was adopting was preferable to the direct system.<br /> <br /> He also expressed satisfaction with the process, saying it was peaceful.<br /> <br /> “Everything has been going on well except the crowd control which we had issues with, but everything has been brought under control.<br /> <br /> “PDP is a party of the people. We prefer the delegate system to the Option A4.<br /> <br /> “Once the process is free and fair, I am one person that will accept the will of the people,” he said.(NAN)

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2019: I’ll do a lot of things differently — Tambuwal

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQ8agfdYF7qjvFFEoQlIPzvxlvLbxDhCrJDYLTbqABZPiswBI4uSFU6PO9lO9bLPdlbl7wA0o5HuZlyLI5b5yR1pXb6BDiezTEodHoGHaFZeK-XZHVIZbGpNUNG2FLeU1sFRuFZg8IHln/s1600/Tambuwal-360x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="553" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQ8agfdYF7qjvFFEoQlIPzvxlvLbxDhCrJDYLTbqABZPiswBI4uSFU6PO9lO9bLPdlbl7wA0o5HuZlyLI5b5yR1pXb6BDiezTEodHoGHaFZeK-XZHVIZbGpNUNG2FLeU1sFRuFZg8IHln/s640/Tambuwal-360x225.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Aspirant and Sokoto State Governor, says he will do a lot of things differently for the country, if voted into office as president.<br /> <br /> Tambuwal spoke while fielding questions from newsmen when he visited Kaduna State PDP Secretariat on Thursday.<br /> <br /> He promised to promote good governance, transparency and rule of law, if he is able to actualise his dream.<br /> <br /> He reiterated the need to promote development of science and technology and wealth creation in the country, which he said he was committed to doing.<br /> <br /> “We shall promote wealth creation and ensure a robust economy,” he said.<br /> Earlier, while addressing the national delegates, Tambuwal, a former Speaker, House of Representatives, said that Kaduna remains very important in the nation’s politics.<br /> <br /> “Kaduna is a top place for politics in Nigeria and the capital of Northern Nigeria.<br /> <br /> “Though you have a candidate from here who is one of the leaders of our party, I am not here to campaign, but to exchange pleasantries with you,” he said.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> He promised that the aspirants would support whoever emerged as the party’s Presidential flagbearer at the Port Harcourt Convention, billed for Oct. 6 and 7.<br /> <br /> ” I thank you for the warm reception accorded me when I arrived the State,” he said.<br /> Meanwhile, Chairman of Kaduna State PDP, Mr Felix Hyat, said any of the aspirants that emerged at the party convention would be accepted in Kaduna State.<br /> <br /> ” We want to tell you that we do not discriminate; you are our own and we would ensure that we support you.<br /> ” Just last week, during the gubernatorial primaries of Kaduna State, we had 10 aspirants.<br /> <br /> “We assured them of justice and it was held free and fair, and no petition has come up after the emergence of the candidate.<br /> “We appeal to the national officers to ensure a free and fair Convention and after the candidate emerges, campaigns would no longer be for the candidates.<br /> <br /> “The party would take over, going from door-to-door to campaign for the candidates,” Hyat said. (NAN)

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Why airlines fail in Nigeria, by experts

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="720" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQfFUrIgA-F-jvbEZN_s23eWqVnDRW6_M8-PfZQKJQ8SSZfBq9-IB1-I4RRwC9rB3xCF1ZcfeTZx8Cp1pSVr6MzwDT4VtK3VONM1_l2RCsyrGwVkIB5cW8a3_Y7EG2g8_YNwzYLFGZpdU/s640/plane+in+air.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> Experts in the aviation sector have adduced reasons why carriers have short life span listing absence of corporate governance principles by their owners and managers; poor business plan; lack of technical knowledge of the industry as well as unsuitability of aircraft type.<br /> <br /> The experts including Former Director of Human Resources , Virgin Nigeria Airways and Director General Institute of Directors (IOD), Mr Victor Banjo; Former Managing Director of AeroContractors and Air Nigeria, Captain Dapo Olumide ; President of Aviation Roundtable, Mt Gbenga Olowo ; and Chief Executive Officer , Overland Airways , Captain Edward Boyo said many carriers failed in Nigeria because their owners failed to adhere to the code of corporate governance and other factors that has increased the bust and boom circle of airlines.<br /> <br /> Speaking the Quarter 4 2018 Business Breakfast Meeting of Aviation Roundtable in Lagos on Thursday, Banjo who was the guest speaker, while delivering a paper entitled : ” Short Life Span of Nigerian Airlines : Importance of Corporate Governance”, Banjo said many carriers failed because of absence of professional management; absence of internal audit; government interference and lack of protection of whistle blowers.<br /> <br /> According to him, Corporate Governance provides the controls and discipline operators need and that adoption of corporate governance practices promote effective leadership and corporate sustainability.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> Adding that controls and discipline can moderate the desire for excessive profit which leads to unethical practices and fraudulent acts, Banjo said “Good corporate governance thrives when you have a rationalized policy determination process. This is only achievable when we have clear sighted political leaders who are committed to the development of Nigeria as opposed to sectional and parochial interests. Ethiopia, Namibia, Rwanda, Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, Ghana and Senegal are getting it right in terms of airline management and airport infrastructure, as with other areas of human endeavour. What is stopping us?”.<br /> <br /> He said for any carrier to succeed, its managers and promoters must adhere to the four pillars of corporate governance; which include : accountability, fairness, transparency and independence.<br /> <br /> He berated the industry regulator : Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), for its failure to whip domestic carriers in line with the provisions of corporate governance as contained in the Nigerian Cil Aviation Regulations ( NCAR), of 2006.<br /> <br /> He said : ” NCAA is part of the problem. The regulator has failed in its duty of ensuring that airlines implement good corporate governance in their operations.”<br /> <br /> He said the controversial national carrier : Nigeria Air failed because the Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika failed because the minister did not adhere to the code of corporate governance.<br /> <br /> Banjo said : ” Sirika did not adhere to the code of corporate governance . A board of directors was supposed to run the airline and not the minister of aviation. The project failed simply because there was no structure in place for the national carrier to fly. Sirika should have put in place a professional team.<br /> <br /> On his part, Olumide said many carriers failed in the past due to poor business planning; wrong financial models; non involvement of people with intrinsic knowledge of the industry ; inability of operators to use fuel efficient aircraft and high airport charges.<br /> <br /> Olumide said : ” Airlines have failed in Nigeria because operators need to use brand new airplanes, which in the long term reduces cost of maintenance, poor credit rating of Nigeria and other factors.<br /> <br /> ” For airlines to survive, operators need to invest more in manpower development, explore international windows for aircraft financing by looking at a twenty year financing model , exploring export credit agencies guaranteed loans and take advantage of open skies agreements, which stimulates competition and improves service levels.”<br /> <br /> On his part, Boyo said besides adhering to good corporate governance principles operators need to operate in a good business environment .<br /> <br /> Boyo said passengers were not paying as air fare, saying airlines were being over regulated by the NCAA.<br /> <br /> He said “Airlines suffer from over regulation by the NCAA. Many airlines are struggling not because of factors caused by them, but because of the operating environment. ”<br /> <br /> In his remark, Chairman of the occasion and Director of Studies, Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies, Prof. Anthony Kila said that Nigeria Air was conceived on power point, shared on Adobe and died on Twitter”.<br /> <br /> According to Kila, the Nigeria Air project was embarked on without due consultation and communication with people that matters, adding that there was no industry engagement and when a project is done like that it is bound to die.<br /> <br /> President of Aviation Roundtable (ART) Elder Gbenga Olowo who set the ball rolling at the event said the think-tank believes the announcement to bring back the national carrier was a vote of no confidence on the existing airlines.<br /> <br /> Olowo said, “The announcement of Nigeria Air in the last three years of President Buhari shook the industry. That announcement was a vote of no confidence on the sector; that the Airlines that are existing are not doing well. ‘We are going to float another airline’. “And three years after we suddenly learnt that project is being suspended and that made all of us to start speculating why, how, what happened and we will continue to speculate until we hear exactly what happened. I will say that it destabilizes the sector because in planning with the Nigerian Airlines in the last three years, they would factor in that announcement. If I were to be the MD of a Nigerian airline, I would factor in the arrival of a very strong competitor”.<br /> <br /> Olowo challenged the federal government to come out and tell Nigerians whether the project was only suspended or it would be resuscitated. Project Nigeria Air was suspended in September after a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting where no actual reasons for the suspension has been given, other than statements from Ministries of State, Aviation negating its counterpart in information, culture and Tourism claims about investors not forth coming.<br /> <br /> Olowo equally advised the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) to go and pursue the Fly Nigeria Act so as to increase their revenue generation.<br /> <br /> “AON should go and put up the Flight Nigeria Act Bill so as to make gains. Your costs are so much and you can’t control them. The only way is to increase your revenue by pursuing the Fly Nigeria Act”, Olowo said”<br /> <br /> In his views, Capt John Ojikutu said Nigeria does not understand the structure of national carrier, stressing that Nigeria Airways was not a national carrier but a government carrier.<br /> <br /> Ojikutu emphasized that “we told them not to set up government airline, that they should call private operators to work with them”.<br /> <br /> To another aviation consultant and MD/CEO Belujane Konsult Limited, Chris Aligbe, hope is bleak with the suspension of Nigeria Air.<br /> <br /> “Hope is bleak if we don’t have national carrier. The question is not ego but what is the future of our children. We are also looking at what we going to provide for them. The problem with Nigeria Air is poor communication management. I don’t think Nigeria Air is dead; it is not dead.”

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Ballon d’Or 2018: Neymar names his three-man final shortlist to win award

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFI4BgRbCEDv_KhNdt02J2SCo8MhxEScZTlMRJ70zWCZCXBkUcKitxP55GBqQFL5k-pKaBYhLc-1AbcHkCmy7zVi6PrTcwJoy5Flml1oSRiH03hD9hKrg45ZbGy9YHBgNRVe5tVml_s-sI/s1600/Neymar+traitor.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFI4BgRbCEDv_KhNdt02J2SCo8MhxEScZTlMRJ70zWCZCXBkUcKitxP55GBqQFL5k-pKaBYhLc-1AbcHkCmy7zVi6PrTcwJoy5Flml1oSRiH03hD9hKrg45ZbGy9YHBgNRVe5tVml_s-sI/s400/Neymar+traitor.jpg" /></a></div> Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar has named three players that he feels should make the three-man final shortlist for this year’s Ballon d’Or award.<br /> <br /> Neymar, who was third in 2015 and 2017, think Barcelona star, Lionel Messi and Juventus forward, Ronaldo should be contesting for their sixth Ballon d’Or.<br /> <br /> But instead of putting himself on their level, he selected his fellow club teammate, Kylian Mbappe, who won the 2018 FIFA World Cup with France.<br /> <br /> “I would say, Ronaldo, Messi and Mbappe,” Neymar told AS when asked who he reckons has a chance of winning the 2018 Ballon d’Or award.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> He added, “We see in each of our matches the potential that he [Mbappe] has. He exploits it every time, even if he is only 19.”<br /> <br /> Messi and Ronaldo have dominated the award in the past decade.<br /> <br /> The pair had won an incredible five awards each, with Ronaldo equaling Messi’s tally last year.<br /> <br /> The 2018 Ballon d’ Or award will take place on 3rd December, 2018.</div>

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