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Trey Songz has expressed his disappointment in Kanye West over his comment about Harriet Tubman during his campaign rally in South Carolina. Kanye attended his first Presidential rally at the Exquis event centre in North Charleston…

A white republican has revealed that she will enslave black people again if she had the opportunity. In the video, the woman, identified as @lindsayclarke7 on Instagram expressed her anger that black people are protesting. She promised…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says the world “still lives in the shadow of the transatlantic slave trade” in spite of rejecting racism. SEE ALSO: Trade Negotiation Office targets Key Service Sectors for AfCFTA Implementation In…

23 Nigerians, who had fallen victim to human trafficking and forced into slavery have been rescued by the Katsina State Government. The state Governor, Alhaji Aminu Masari, received the victims on Tuesday night in Katsina after state…

About 20 Kidnap Victims from Katsina state have been sold into slavery in Burkina Faso. According to newsmen, the victims who were kidnapped from the Kankara Local  Government Area of Katsina state, were taken to a certain woman in Cotonou…

One of Britain’s top universities announced a two-year inquiry into its links to the African slave trade on Tuesday, promising to uncover how the institution may have gained from slavery and the exploitation of labour. Scholars at the…

Students of Washington DC-based-based Georgetown University have voted in support of a reparations fund to repay descendants of slaves sold by the school in 1838. A "Reconciliation Contribution" fee of $27.20 (£21) each semester would go…

Al Jazeera has shared a heart-wrenching story of about 20,000 Nigerian girls who are currently being used as sex slaves in Mali and held against their will. Escaping has been particularly difficult for the ladies due to the fact that…

A 26- year-old Nigerian who was deported from Libya, Mr Iwoche Endurance has advised Nigerians desiring to travel abroad through the desert in search of greener pastures to have a rethink. Endurance, a Senior Secondary Certificate…

Comrade Iboro Ibara, the Akwa Ibom Vice Chairman of the  Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described the situation of workers in the country as that of being under slavery. Ibara said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria…

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says that 116 of the Nigerian migrants trapped in Libya slave camps would be repatriated home soon. Dabiri-Erewa said this  in a…

R&B singer R. Kelly has lashed out at critics over his alleged mistreatment of women by releasing a 19 minute long song in which he reveals he was also a victim of sexual harassment contrary to the claims against him. Kelly otherwise…

A Nigerian deportee who just arrived from Libya has given a startling confession at T.B. Joshua’s Church in Lagos, painting an alarming picture of the death toll of African migrants seeking to illegally enter Europe. Efe Alimi, an Edo…

In a report by Channels Television on Friday, it was discovered that child slavery is a tradition in the Becheve tribe of Obanliku Cross River State, who subject their daughters to modern-day slavery in a practice called “money marriage”.…

Italy striker Mario Ballotelli has hit out at Rapper Kanye West after the latter remarked that he felt like 400 years of slavery for Africans was a choice. The rapper had been a guest at TMZ's headquarters and while there he said; “When…

There was an uproar when Kanye West visited the TMZ headquarters and made a single statement that has left the world in stunned silence-- Slavery was a choice The 40-year-old rapper incensed an entire community with this statement and…

America's new King of controversy, Kanye West, has opened another can of cankerworms after claiming that 400 years of slavery was a choice. The rapper was a guest at TMZ headquarters made these incendiary remarks stating that for slavery…

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has pledged a more robust cooperation with the Edo Government to ensure the success of the on-going evacuation and reintegration of Libya returnees. The agency…

Mr Kehinde Enabulele, father of Eki, one of the 846 Edo indigenes who was repatriated from Libya on Tuesday said that he visited an “Ifa priest” and native doctors, for the dafe return of his daughter. Enabulele told the News Agency of…

At the recently held 52nd ordinary session of the ECOWAS authority of head of state and government, President Muhammadu Buhari urged leaders to help look into the challenges of Human trafficking, terrorism, drug trafficking currently…

The return of a large contingent of Nigerian from Libya where they had been subjected to different degrading forms of treatment, has brought with it many different stories; some heartwrenching, others warm but tinged with sadness. One of…

In recent times, there has been abundant public outcry regarding the international migration crisis which affects a large number of Nigerians and their families back home. Wale Adenuga Productions has once again contributed its quota to…

President Muhammadu Buhari in Abidjan has expressed his consternation at the manner Nigerians are being sold like goats for few dollars in the ongoing modern-day slavery in Libya. He, however, declared that all Nigerians stranded in that…

The Nigerian government has repatriated 242 Nigerians from Libya yesterday 29th November, following the widespread violence directed against immigrants from Sub-saharan African. During the past weeks, many  African immigrants living in…

The United Kingdom has taken definitive steps to end the repulsive act of modern day slavery in Nigeria. To this end, they have contributed £7m to help with this move. This was announced by the International Development Secretary Priti…