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Nigerian cleric, Pastor Benjamin Egbaji, incarcerated in Benin Republic, was on Thursday released following a presidential pardon granted by President Patrice Talon. Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, confirmed this in a statement issued by her media aide, Dr Magnus Eze. She said Egbaji, a businessman from Cross River, was accused of an offence and detained under dehumanising conditions at a hospital in Cotonou. According to her, the cleric spent over two years in detention as his health deteriorated before he was eventually transferred to prison custody. She explained that a gazetted presidential amnesty dated Dec.…

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