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Nigeria:
Fashola Issues 'Unreserved Apology' to Igbos Over Lagos Deportation Row
Premium Times, 26 September 2013
The Lagos State Governor, Thursday, issued an "unreserved apology" to the Igbos following the deportation of about 70 beggars and destitute people to Anambra State. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Fashola Apologises for Misunderstanding Over Relocation of Igbo
This Day, 27 September 2013
After weeks of open confrontation between the Lagos State Government and Igbo ethnic groups over the forced relocation of the latter's destitute indigenes to Anambra State,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Deportation of Igbos, Fashola Tenders Unreserved Apology
Vanguard, 26 September 2013
TWO months after the controversial deportation of Igbo residents, Governor Babatunde Fashola, Thursday, rendered an unreserved apology to the Igbos over the July 24 dumping of some… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Blame Not Ethnicity for Nigeria's Failures
Vanguard, 23 August 2013
IT was in the days that followed the January 1, 1966 coup that the young officers that took the reins of leadership started making some slogans popular. These slogans included: "No… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Deportation Saga - Groups Back Fani-Kayode
This Day, 23 August 2013
The controversy trailing the 'Lagos deportation of Igbos' is showing no sign of abating as some pan-Yoruba groups Thursday declared support for the position taken by the former… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Response to Deportation - a Cure Worse Than the Disease
Vanguard, 1 September 2013
As the cliché goes, all this would have been laughable if it is not so tragic. In the heat of the subsisting venom and vitriol, it seems nobody now cares that the first set… Read more »
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Nigeria:
The Lagos 'Deportation' and the Law
This Day, 14 August 2013
It is common knowledge that the beautification project of the Babatunde Fashola Administration has led to the "deportation" of hundreds of the jetsam and the flotsam from Lagos… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Igbo Deportation - Lagos Committed No Error - Ipaye
Vanguard, 13 August 2013
The Lagos State government has said that it has committed no error on the deportation of Igbos that was carried out recently. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Lessons From the Lagos Deportation
Vanguard, 13 August 2013
WITH an avalanche of public outcry, there is need for a deep reflection over the recent expulsion of over 70 beggars and destitute by the Lagos State Government to the Upper Iweka… Read more »
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Nigeria:
The Lagos Deportation and the Law - Deportation of Dissidents
Vanguard, 12 August 2013
IN 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889. Read more »
