88 detained in sex trafficking crackdown!

Photo credit: Daily Mirror A Sri Lankan and 64 Thai are among the 88 foreigners detained by Malaysian immigration authorities in a crackdown on sex activities at three locations. Daily Mirror Online reports that the operation took place at a hotel and two entertainment venues suspected of offering sex services on Tuesday and Wednesday. The…

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Exploitation in massage parlour!

Photo credit: the West Australian Two people running a massage parlour in a Western Australian town have been accused of exploiting foreign workers. Illawarra Mercury reports that the two, Yuteng Zhang and Jess Fang Ching Ting, allegedly mistreated a 36-year-old woman after she arrived in Australia last year by confiscating her passport, underpaying her and…

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Pity!!! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Multidox Kizito Egeonu must have graduated from the University of Jos. He was a 400 level medical student in 2009. That year must have been a happy one for him, too. That was when he won the unbelievable sum of a million dollars in a promo. I didn’t say a million naira. He…

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Spiting The Face! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times There are some really thoughtful sayings in the English language that will make a person think that maybe the English borrowed them from the ever beautiful Yoruba language. One of them is cutting off the nose to spite the face. It is described as an axpression to needlessly self-destructive over reaction…

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Israeli airstrike kills 29 in Gaza!

Photo credit: Daily Post Not less than 29 people were killed in Gaza and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced people outside a school in southern Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday’s strike it next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan…

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Member-states backing out of ECOWAS!

Photo credit: Channels TV Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have broken away from the 15-member regional bloc, ECOWAS. The New York Times reports that the bloc has long ensured the free movement of people and goods among its tightly knit economies. By their actions, the three countries have further destabilized an area home to four…

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