LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday disclosed that Nigeria and the United States of America would sign a memorandum to repatriate US$300m looted by former Head of State, Late Gen. Sani Abacha. Nigeria had received over $2 billion out of the $5 billion believed to have been looted during the Abacha administration The…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Chinese students who were returning to the U.S. as undergraduate students at Arizona State University were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, university officials said. The students were detained by Customs and Border Protection officials “over the last week,” the university said in a statement Friday. The students were “denied admission…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The story of an incoming Harvard freshman who was denied entry into the United States after his laptop and cellphone were searched at the airport last week has immigration and free speech advocates sounding the alarm over the Trump administration’s increasingly restrictive immigration policies and how they are enforced. According to the…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSANGERS)-A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to “encourage” or “induce” immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional. KCUR-FM reports that U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia issued his ruling from the bench Wednesday before throwing out the convictions of Jose Felipe…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight months after first raising the idea, President Trump on Wednesday said his administration is again “very seriously” looking into ending the practice of conferring U.S. citizenship on anyone born in the United States. “We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has not been denied visa by any embassy in Nigeria including that of the United States, his media adviser, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, said on Saturday. Obienyem in a statement in reaction to information on social…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump threatened undefined retaliation Friday against countries and organizations that issue travel warnings on the United States because of gun violence. “If they did that, we’d just reciprocate,” Trump said during a wide-ranging impromptu gaggle with reporters at the White House, en route to fundraisers in New York. He added:…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge on Friday blocked a move by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop migrants from claiming asylum unless they had entered the country at an official border crossing, news outlets reported. The policy, enacted by Trump last year, is among a host of measures his government has taken against the…