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He also shared with United Methodists these same concerns and called on them to remain peaceful. Africa’s most populous country is seeing a growing trend by local organizations, churches and individuals to organize charity events ahead of Christmas to ease economic hardship caused by a cost-of-living crisis. The dead included 22 people in southeastern Anambra state’s Okija town, where a philanthropist on Saturday organized a food distribution, local police spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga said.

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The fighting spread to the surrounding community, where huts were torched, resulting in the deaths of 4-year-old Abednego and 2-year-old Baby, children of Abraham Kefas, a church member and overseer of Divine Success UMCN Nursery and Primary School in the Munga Dosso community. A month of celebrations in December draws many partygoers to Calabar, the capital of Cross River state and home to many Christian communities. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.

Court records and interviews with officials, survivors and activists revealed how criminal networks lured African women into sexual slavery, coercing them by imposing crushing debts and exploiting their spiritual beliefs. “The United States must stand with Nigerians who are peacefully demonstrating for police reform and seeking an end to corruption in their democracy,” Biden said. “I encourage the government to engage in a good-faith dialogue with civil society to address these long-standing grievances and work together for a more just and inclusive Nigeria.” LONDON and LAGOS — Amnesty International said it has received “credible but disturbing evidence” of security forces killing protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality in Nigeria’s largest city. “District superintendents and pastors have been meeting with local and state governments and law enforcement agents to help them understand the UMC and our polity, and this is changing the minds of government officials,” he said.

That conflict was heightened by the formation of the theologically conservative Global Methodist Church in 2022 and the resignation of former Nigeria bishop John Wesley Yohanna earlier this year. Yohanna announced in July that he was leaving The United Methodist Church and joining the breakaway denomination. Bishop Schol and a team of United Methodist bishops have been overseeing the episcopal area since August.

She even appeared to have traveled; in September, she posted a TikTok advertising her wares in Manchester. And in February, just over a month before Nigerian courts convicted her in absentia, she posted videos of herself in Nigeria’s capital Abuja and in Benin City, where her case was prosecuted. In videos posted from June, she appeared to be in property tours with a representative of DAMAC properties, a Dubai real estate developer. Gunshots were heard again in Lagos on Wednesday as some protesters continued to demonstrate despite the curfew. People set fire to a television news station and part of the Nigerian Ports Authority headquarters. The Lagos state government has ordered the indefinite closure of all public and private schools amid the unrest.

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• The fighting spread to the surrounding community, where huts were torched, resulting in the deaths of 4-year-old Abednego and 2-year-old Baby, children of Abraham Kefas, a church member and overseer of Divine Success UMCN Nursery and Primary School in the Munga Dosso community.
• LONDON and LAGOS — Amnesty International said it has received “credible but disturbing evidence” of security forces killing protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality in Nigeria’s largest city.
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• Three women who say they were trafficked and exploited by Gold alleged that she took their passports, and that Gold threatened to kill them and dump their bodies in the desert if they didn’t do as they were told.

Even with the elimination of approximately 80,000 ghost workers recently, the problem persists. Nigerian authorities charged Gold with six counts of sex trafficking, but she failed to show up for a scheduled court appearance on Nov. 3, 2021, after posting bail. In a statement to the court in Nigeria after she was initially charged, Gold denied that she and her brother were sex traffickers. She told the court that she had helped men and women move to the UAE by subletting space in an apartment she owned in Dubai, but denied knowing what they did for work. In a statement issued by the Global Methodist Church’s communications office in Nigeria, Auta called on the community of Munga Dosso to drop its bitterness and embrace sustainable peace in the best interest of brotherhood and development. Yakku said at least 11 houses of United Methodist church members were set ablaze, displacing many families and resulting in hundreds of people, mainly women and children, fleeing to neighboring communities for safety.

Cross River State state sees the carnival – now Nigeria’s biggest – as a way to draw visitors not just Nigeria News from across Nigeria – but also those from the diaspora. The one below depicts manillas – the brass bracelets introduced as a form of currency by Portuguese traders and used from the 16th to the 19th Centuries. The troupe pictured below is from the University of Calabar – with costumes printed with the institution’s logo. Christmas revellers descended on Nigeria’s southern port city of Calabar this weekend for its festive carnival dubbed “Africa’s biggest street party”.

They urged United Methodists to remain peaceful in the midst of conflict and to call the police immediately; they urged the Global Methodist Church members to do the same. Police said they were investigating the two incidents, only days after another stampede in which 35 children were killed. On Thursday, at least 32 people died in a similar incident at an Islamic high school in Ibadan, the capital of southwestern Nigeria’s Oyo State. In the capital, Abuja, at least 10 people died on Saturday and many more were injured in a scramble to receive gifts of charity being distributed by the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Maitama district. “The military jets were on their mission to eliminate criminal armed groups terrorizing the state, and mistakenly bombed innocent people of this community,” Aliyu said in a statement.

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The government has strengthened the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to enhance its investigative capabilities and also introduced digital platforms to promote transparency in public procurement. While these efforts aim to increase citizen engagement and advocacy, the road to a corruption-free Nigeria is paved with challenges. Some of the challenges are impunity among high-ranking officials, as well as the slow pace of judicial processes. The investigation was part of ICIJ’s Trafficking Inc. project, which explored the networks of companies, people and business practices that profit from cross-border labor trafficking and sex trafficking abuse.

In the statement, they called upon leaders of the Global Methodist Church, particularly the three bishops who lead Nigeria, to act justly and bring those who perpetrated the crimes to justice. The stampede occurred in the early morning hours at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Maitama, a high-brow part of Abuja, from where more than 1,000 people have been evacuated, police spokesman Josephine Adeh said in a statement. If the fight against corruption is successful, Nigeria and the developing world as a whole will fulfil their vast development potentials in a transforming world.