LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States announced Monday it was lifting its ban on refugees from 11 “high-risk” countries, but said those seeking to enter the US would come under much tougher scrutiny than in the past. Applicants from 11 countries, unnamed but understood to include 10 Muslim-majority nations plus North Korea, will face tougher…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will leave the country on Monday night for the United States of America. According to a tweet by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo will deliver the inaugural Havard University’s historic ‘Africa Rising’ lecture. The vice-president is expected to return to Abuja…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has summoned Stuart Symington, United States ambassador to Nigeria, over Donald Trump’s usage of a demeaning term to describe African nations. The US president is reported to have questioned why the US would want to have immigrants from “shithole countries” such as Haiti and African nations. The comment was…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump has “intentionally divid[ed] the country and the world” during his first year in office, former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told the Lincoln Journal-Star for a story published this weekend. The president is “doing great damage to our country internationally,” said Hagel, a former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska….
By Emmanuel Ogebe LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Long before I arrived in the United States in 1997 on political asylum, I’d heard the apocryphal story of the visiting African who was asked by an American whether it was “true that Africans live on trees?” The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: “Yes, it is true, and the…