Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Affairs has revealed that the office of Foreign Affairs issued warnings to Nigerians not to go to Libya.

This is following the global outrage over a CNN report that exposed an underground slave market where young Africans are sold.

Speaking on Politics Today, a Channels TV program, the presidential aide also wondered why Nigerians take a lot of risk to go abroad for greener pastures.

Dabiri-Erewa said;

“NEMA, my office, IOM told Nigerians that avoid Libya, it is deadly, it is dangerous, don’t go there. Also on the news, you have cases of Nigerians being brought back from Libya on a regular basis. So Nigeria has been bringing back its citizens from Libya.

“You can imagine the dangerous journey. Walking about 3,000kilometers that’s flying for about three hours if you are going to Europe. This might be attributed to poverty. Yes, the government must do the needful by creating enabling environment and jobs but it goes beyond that. What do you say of a mother who sells her land and pays off $4,000 for her daughter to go to Europe?”

“We should look at the family value and the systems. For every person who goes on that journey, a trafficker is being empowered, a trafficker is getting richer,” she added.

According to AFP, survivors of slave auctions in Libya have described as hell their experience in Libya’s underground slave camp.

Moussa Sanogo, a migrant who flew back to Ivory Coast after spending four months in Libya, revealed that they were beaten regularly, and forced to work in the fields.

“For the Arabs (Libyan jailers), black-skinned men are nothing but animals — animals were treated better,” Sanogo said.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, November 29, 2017, called on the Federal Government to summon Libyan Ambassador to answer questions concerning reports of slave trade.

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Hollywood actress and award-winning singer, Selena Gomez is the cover star of Billboard Magazine’s ‘Woman Of The Year’ issue 2017.

In her interview, she gave some insight into her recent surgery where she had a Kidney transplant as a result of complications from Lupus. Selena shared how she had to get comfortable with her scars.

Despite her struggle with accepting her body, she revealed that now she looks at her body and feels better about everything she has been through.

Read excerpts from her interview below

On how comfortable she feels with her scar:

I do. I didn’t, but I do now. It was really hard in the beginning. I remember looking at myself in the mirror completely naked and thinking about all the things that I used to bitch about and just asking, “Why?” I had someone in my life for a very long time who pointed out all the things that I didn’t feel great about with myself. When I look at my body now, I just see life. There are a million things I can do — lasers and creams and all that stuff — but I’m OK with it. And by the way, there’s nothing wrong with [plastic surgery]. Cardi B has been my inspiration lately. She’s killing it, and she is proud of everything she has done. So there is absolutely zero judgment on my end. I just think for me, it could be my eyes, my round face, my ears, my legs, my scar. I don’t have perfect abs, but I feel like I’m wonderfully made.

On how she feels about the recent increase in women speaking up against their predators:

I feel all those things. I’ve cried. But I definitely feel hopeful. As people speak out, I hope that feels powerful to them, because they deserve to feel that. I’m fortunate enough not to have experienced some of the traumatic things that other women have had to go through. I’ve known people in my family who’ve gone through those things. I try to let people come to me and open up, to make a safe environment for them to do so.

On whether or not she is working on new music:

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On Tuesday, October 28 2017, Jenny Durkan officially became Seattle’s 56th mayor and the first woman to hold the office in almost a hundred years.

The Emerald City welcomed Durkan, who is also its first openly lesbian mayor, with inauguration ceremonies held in five locations spread across Seattle. Durkan made her first stop at Seattle’s Ethiopian Community Center where she was officially sworn in to office by Judge Richard Jones.

Bertha Knight Landes, the last female to hold the mayoral seat in Seattle more than 90 years ago, served on Seattle’s City Council and was then elected as mayor in 1926.

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In recent years, many people have shifted from traditional careers to remote work and coworking spaces began springing up in cities around the world. However, many of these spaces have predominantly catered to men, home to ping pong tables and a bro culture, where women have felt socially isolated, been subjected to sexual harassment or otherwise experienced the impact of workplace sexism.

In response to this, Girly.ng, a female, millennial lifestyle brand, has launched a women-only coworking space with a mission to enable women of different backgrounds and professions to come together for mutual support, relationship-building, and wellness.

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Girly.ng comprises of an e-commerce marketplace for social media thrift sellers, an online community connecting women and now the first all-girl co-working space in Nigeria.

Girly.ng is trying to position itself as the affordable coworking space where entrepreneurial women can create and collaborate in a professional environment suited to meeting the unique needs of female entrepreneurs – by connecting them to other business experts, access to educational workshops, mentorship and visibility within the business community.

The space, located in Yaba, Lagos, is yet to go live with their rates, but signing up early with the community will get entrepreneurs on the waiting list to enjoy a 20% discount on offered services. The workspace will be fully open to the general (female) public in January.

When women create and design spaces for themselves, they are able to address the barriers and challenges that have hindered their progress in traditional office environments.

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With the way everything in the world has been going – especially politics and race relations, we may as well be back 1917, or 1817. To validate that point, a recent CNN report aired footage that showed African migrants being sold off as farmworkers at auctions in Libya, in 2017. Humans are actually being traded for as little as $400 (N144,000).

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Libya is the last stopping point in Africa before migrants begin the dangerous journey through the Mediterranean to Europe, and hundreds of thousands of Africans have attempted to travel to Europe in recent years, resulting in thousands of drowning deaths and a countless number of them being sold into slavery. The International Organization for Migration estimates there are currently between 700,000 and a million migrants stuck in Libya.

“Rwanda, like the rest of the world, was horrified by the images of the tragedy currently unfolding in Libya, where African men, women and children who were on the road to exile, have been held and turned into slaves. Given Rwanda’s political philosophy and our own history, we cannot remain silent when human beings are being mistreated and auctioned off like cattle.

The Government and people of Rwanda stand in solidarity with our African brothers and sisters still held in captivity. Rwanda may not be able to welcome everyone but our door is wide open. We are ready to work closely with the African Union, the private sector, as well as other friends and partners to ensure that we can provide minimum comfort to those in need.”

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In 1994, Rwanda went through a civil war that left 800,000 Rwandans dead and many more maimed, putting Rwanda at the center of one of the largest refugee crises of the 20th century, and 2 million Rwandans fled the nation to neighbouring countries during that time. So it is incredible that a more stable Rwanda is now standing up for these migrants.

Libyan officials have condemned the practice of slave trading but said that they required more support from the international community. Libya has opened an investigation into the slave markets, and the probe is being overseen by the government’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency.

The United Nations held an emergency session Wednesday, calling the practice a “crime against humanity,” and last week hundreds of protesters demonstrated near the Libyan Embassy in Paris.

(Photo: France24)

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Star actress and filmmaker Stephanie Linus will be attending the 8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in India where she is expected to speak alongside Ms Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the US President; Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other prominent dignitaries.

The Summit which will take place from November 28 to 30 in the city of Hyderabad is jointly organized by the United States and the Republic of India.This year’s Summit will highlight the theme Women First, Prosperity for All and will focus on supporting women entrepreneurs, solving 21st century challenges, and fostering economic growth globally.

Mrs Linus was selected as a #GES Speaker for her globally recognized works as an actress and filmmaker, and also for her humanitarian work.

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Yvonne Ebadan Ogbefua, a Nigerian woman  Instagram user has shared how she was amazingly healed by God, of Sacorma, an aggressive form of cancer which attacks the soft tissue.

According to the beautiful mother of two, who also celebrated her another year yesterday, the doctor had given her just two months to live, but after the words of  Bishop David Oyedepo came to her heart; ‘WHAT EVER MY GOD CANNOT DO,LET IT BE UNDONE’, she got her healing after she tripled her faith.

She wrote on Instagram:

“Happy birthday to me. Its my testimony. Roughly four years ago, I was diagnosed with a form of cancer that attacks the soft tissue. Its called sacorma. It started as a very small lump just by my right side in my stomach region.2

“Then the bomb came.YVONNE YOU ONLY HAVE TWO MONTHS TO LIVE. I rejected it instantly! That was not what my father said to me in Isaiah 65:20.I didn’t have to tell nobody the news.The only people who heard,were the ones in the room with me.i didn’t have to cry over it, cause it wasn’t even my portion.”

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