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The Evolution Of Kidnapping In Nigeria INTRODUCTION The evolution of kidnapping in Nigeria has matured into varying forms that were hitherto uncommon. There are different types of kidnapping beside the one for ransom that is prevalent now. There are kidnappings for political reasons, for rituals, for religious reasons and of course the original type which is the kidnapping of children by a parent, because of custody issues. BRIEF HISTORY OF KIDNAP IN NIGERIA Before colonial Nigeria, kidnapping was a means of sourcing for slaves to be sold to foreigners. After the abolition of slave trade, kidnapping for rituals continued in many countries and regions in West Africa. Fetish and animist beliefs have allowed such practices especially in Nigeria. In the recent past, political kidnapping was introduced by the Niger Delta militants, who targeted foreigners, especially Americans and the British, mainly to draw attention to their plight of environmental degradation, c...

Self-Driving Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona. Human Drivers Will Kill 6,000 This Year.   MORE An Uber self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday (March 18). How safe is this evolving technology? Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty While crossing the street on Sunday night (March 18), a 49-year-old woman in Tempe, Arizona was struck and killed by a self-driving car operated by Uber. Though the autonomous car had a human safety driver behind the wheel who could have theoretically taken control, neither car nor driver detected the pedestrian — who was walking her bike across an intersection — before the vehicle struck her at roughly 40 miles per hour. The woman, Elaine Herzberg, died of her injuries in what is thought to be the first pedestrian fatality caused by a self-driving vehicle on a public road, the  New York Times reported . Local authorities and Uber are investigating the accident, which has already begun drawing p...

The Chinese Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth, But It Probably Won't Hit You A Chinese space station is going to fall uncontrolled out of space, and now, trackers know when. Kind of. Satellite trackers have  speculated since at least 2016  about the probability of China's  Tiangong-1 space lab  slamming into Earth's atmosphere. The lab was China's first prototype space habitat, the site of the country's first orbital docking and long-term space stays. But, launched in 2011, it's long since reached the end of its operational life, and China appears to have no plans to boost it into a higher orbit. More recently, Tiangong's fiery re-entry has looked a lot more imminent. But predicting when exactly the 8-ton (7.3 metric tons) vehicle would fall to Earth is a difficult challenge: As recently as March 2, the European Space Agency (ESA)  couldn't get any more specific  about the re-entry date than sometime between March 24 and April 19. But...

Climate change could create 143 million migrants, World Bank says Facts first: Climate change is real   01:43   (CNN) Tens of millions of people in some of the world's poorest areas could be displaced by climate change in just a few decades, the World Bank has warned in a report. The  report , "Groundswell -- Preparing for Internal Climate Migration," suggests that more than 143 million people across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are at risk of the effects of "slow-onset" climate change. Droughts, crop failure, and rising seas could force millions to move to other places within their countries to areas that are potentially unprepared for an influx of extra people, the report said. The report suggests that this type of migration will rise until 2050, then "accelerate unless there are significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and robust development action." The numbers include 86 million potential migr...

BUZZING TODAY: NEW FACTS EMERGE ON DAPCHI GIRLS – ABDUCTION NOT CARRIED OUT BY BOKO HARAM Joe Parkinson, an award-winning journalist who has covered revolutions, conflicts, and economic crises in more than 40 countries in a recent Twitter post made deep revelations about the abduction of the Dapchi school girls. Parkinson, of The Wall Street Journal, (the Wall Street Journal, based in New York City, is America’s most circulated newspaper with more than 2 million copies daily) in a series of tweets yesterday revealed that Dapchi girls abduction not carried out by Boko haram. See thread below; Last month's kidnap of 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi appeared a carbon copy of Boko Haram's abduction of the Chibok Girls… Only it wasn't the same Boko Haram. Our latest report from Nigeria:  https://t.co/R7LU4oWzUV — Joe Parkinson (@JoeWSJ)  March 19, 2018 1) An Islamic State-backed faction led by Abu Musab al-Barnawi–& not Boko Haram leader Abubakr Shekau – was respo...