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Tent Shelter For Bussed-In Asylum Seekers Opened In New York

Tent Shelter For Bussed-In Asylum Seekers Opened In New York

October 20, 2022 7:42 am

New York City has launched an emergency tent shelter to provide shelter for an influx of asylum seekers being bussed into the city by the Republican leaders of Texas and other US states in advance of critical midterm elections early next month.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the first arrivals were brought on Wednesday to the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center on Randall’s Island, which will serve as a temporary home for 500 single migrant men, according to the city.

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The asylum seekers were dropped off in New York City after long journeys that …

How US Embassy Portrays Nigeria On Its Website

January 8, 2020 8:51 pm

The United States Embassy on its website also announced that the number of Nigerian students in its country increased by 5.8 per cent in the 2018/19 academic year.

Also, Vanguard earlier reported the result of a survey by Afrobarometer which revealed that “one in three Nigerians have considered emigration, most to find an economic opportunity”.

The United States of America is undoubtedly one of the places many Nigerians want to emigrate. Foreign investment into Nigeria rises by 34% to $8.5bn in Q1’19 according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

As much as we celebrate foreign investments and tries to woo …

Onyema: Northern Youths To March To US Embassy In Nigeria

December 5, 2019 3:25 am

NORTHERN youths have revealed plans to mobilize its members across the Northern States for the peaceful rally at the US embassy over the alleged US$20million indictment of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Barr. Allen Onyema by United States Department of Justice raising concern and suspicion over the alleged indictment and questioning the timing.

The Youth under the aegis of Arewa Youth Patriotic Front in a statement said the Air Peace Chairman, was allegedly being framed in collaboration with some Nigerians to undermine his business interest across Africa.

Read Also: IPOB Press Release On Invasion Of Ifeanyi Ejiofor’s …

Our Embassy In Benin Republic Wasn't Attacked - Ambassador

Our Embassy In Benin Republic Wasn’t Attacked – Ambassador

October 13, 2019 8:13 am

Amb Kayode Oguntuase, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Benin has said that Nigeria’s embassy in that country was never attacked.

Oguntuase debunked the rumours in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.

“My office has been inundated with telephone calls regarding an attack on the Nigerian embassy in Cotonou. “There have been insinuations arising from a video clip now in circulation, claiming that hoodlums attacked us here,’’ he said.

READ ALSO: NLC Strike Imminent Due To Minimum Wage Crises

The ambassador described the video clip as false and fake, saying, “they are not …

Police foil pro-Cuban protest at U.S. Embassy

September 25, 2019 11:20 pm

The planned protest at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)-led coalition against the continued United States of America trade embargo on Cuba could not hold at the embassy.

Representatives of labour unions from African countries and civil society groups had planned to hold protest march on Tuesday at the embassy in Abuja to demand the lifting of trade embargo against Cuba.

But the leaders of the protest revealed that they were advised not to march to the embassy by security authorities.

At the embassy, security was beefed up with the deployment of more policeman …

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