Tag: Nigeria

  • Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school

    Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school

    By Michael Daventry  with Reuters• last updated: 28/09/2019 – 11:55
    Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school

    More than 300 captives, many of them children, have been rescued in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna.

    The children aged young as five were found in a building that was thought to be an Islamic school.

    Police said they had been tortured, starved and sexually abused. Some of them were chained up.

    ”This place is neither a rehab or an Islamic school because you can see it for yourselves,” Ali Janga, police commissioner for Kaduna state, told reporters outside the building.

    He said there were many small children and that some had been brought from neighbouring countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana.

    “They were used, dehumanized, you can see it yourself,” he said.

    Pictures of Thursday’s raid were shown on local television in Nigeria.

    Police said seven teachers from the school had been arrested, while the children are being housed at a nearby stadium as the authorities try to trace their parents.

    Islamic schools, known as Almajiris, are common across the mostly Muslim north of the country.

    Nigeria’s population is half Christian, half Muslim.

    Many parents in the north, which is the poorest part of a country, choose to leave their children to board at such schools. Most adults live on less than $2 a day.

    Earlier this year, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari said it planned to eventually ban the schools, although it would not happen immediately.

    Video editor • Michael Daventry

  • Iran Khodro to design D8 joint car

    Iran Khodro to design D8 joint car

    Iran Khodro Co. (IKCO) has announced that the Group of Eight Developing Countries (D8) has chosen the company to design the platform for their joint car.

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    The D8 industry ministers attended a summit in Istanbul from October 4-6, 2011 and appointed IKCO to design the D8 joint car with the cooperation of Turkey and Indonesia, read a statement released by IKCO on Sunday.

    D8 members include Iran, Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

    D8 members also agreed to promote research and development activities in the fields of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) technology, hybrid technology, plug-in cars, new materials and nano-technology.

    “Improving the quality, level of technology and also the capacity if supply chain was another issue settled by the D8 vehicle working group,” the statement continued.

    IKCO was founded in 1962 and is currently regarded as the biggest automaker in the Middle East.

    The company won an award from Tehran’s Third International Nanotechnology Festival in 2010, as the leading company in nano-related auto industry.

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    via PressTV – Iran Khodro to design D8 joint car.