"Many Nigerians are traveling to the developed world to enjoy the development put in place by their governments, but we have refused to develop our own country. Let us start to develop ours to make it attractive and conducive for living, so that foreign nationals will want to come."
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"The sums paid to traffickers, to end up becoming slaves in Libya, could have created jobs in Nigeria" (15 December 2017) Fides News Agency
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Julius Babatunde Adelakun
Julius Babatunde Adelakun (4 November 1934 – 24 October 2025) was a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Oyo.
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