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The Governor Of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has inaugurated the state Anti-Human Trafficking task force that he believes would proffer a new set of home-grown solutions to the age-long social problem. Speaking during the ceremony at the government house in Benin City the state capital, Governor Obaseki said a situation where the state is fast becoming synonymous with human trafficking is no longer acceptable. He, therefore, charged the task force to urgently redeem the state’s image saying that the Edo people do not want to be associated with the stigma anymore. Furthermore, he emphasized the need for the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) as well as other international organsations to join Edo State in the fight against human trafficking. SOURCE: http://www.channelstv.com/2017/08/15/obaseki-sets-task-force-human-trafficking/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=channelstv

News monitored on Al Jazeera Network has it that Mauritanians have voted to abolish their senate and alter their national flag by referendum. The electoral commission announced this on Sunday, in a clear victory for President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz the day after the vote. While turnout was 53.73 percent, 85 percent of voters on Saturday declared "Yes" to changes put to a referendum when they were defeated in the Senate in March, despite fierce criticism from a boycott movement that called mass protests during campaigning. Abdel Aziz, who last week described the senate as "useless and too costly," has said the move to abolish the governing body would improve governance by introducing more local forms of lawmaking. But the boycott movement drew broad political support from figures as diverse as religious conservatives and anti-slavery activists. Members of opposition parties spearheading the boycotters held a press conference on Sunday during which they denoun

ANAMBRA MASSACRE: Analysis on How a murder that occurred four years ago in South Africa led to the massacre in Ozubulu. Ginika, an Mbaise native, grew up in Ozubulu, and was taken to South Africa by Aloysious a.k.a Bishop, to start a "joint venture". It was reported that the "Joint Venture" became a boom, and Bishop opted to pay off Ginika, and Ginika refused thus ensued a quarrel. Ginika,raised in Ozubulu, but of Mbaise parentage, took the matter to Mbaise Kin in South Africa and accused Bishop of plotting to kill him. Sometimes later, Ginika was assassinated in South Africa, with accusing fingers pointed towards Bishop, who denied the killing. This event set of retaliatory killings, with many of Bishop's associates murdered in South Africa and Nigeria. It was said that Bishop escaped several attempts to kill him, and have always come out unscathed during each attack. But back home in Ozubulu, Bishop is well loved. He placed elderly women on monthly cash t