The United Kingdom is presently looking at the possibility of tightening the rules on how many relatives migrants can bring into the country.
According to Daily Mail, UK, it has been discovered that Nigerian migrants bring in the highest number of dependants when compared to other groups of migrants.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the UK Home secretary, Suella Braverman is presently considering tightening the rules on dependant.
This is coming after Home Office immigration figures recently indicated a startling inconsistency across different nationalities coming to the UK to work and study.
Its report shows that Nigerians accounted …
Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that the bodies of some eight migrants who had been thought to be Tunisians missing for two weeks have finally been recovered on Monday off the coast of the north African country.
“Sailors on Monday morning found eight bodies of migrants off Zarzis whose boat was thought to have sunk two weeks ago,” Mongi Slim, head of the Red Crescent in Medenine had revealed to newsmen.
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Mr. Eric Adams who is the Mayor of New York City has announced a state of emergency in response to what has been described as a ‘crisis situation’ which is as a result of an inflow of migrants.
Speaking from City Hall yesterday, Adams claimed that the city of New York is in a ‘crisis situation’ at the moment while also adding, ‘more than 61,000 people in our shelter system.’
Africa Daily New, New York reports that in recent times, there have seen a migration of people from Republican states like Texas, Arizona, and Florida to Democratic regions.
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No fewer than 14 migrants, including Nigerians, have reportedly died following a fire incident that razed a boat in south Senegal on Wednesday.
Information reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has it that about 21 people were injured as four of them suffered second-degree burns as they embarked on a journey to Spanish Canary Islands before the boat caught fire.
The mayor of the coastal town, Kafountine in Casamance, David Diatta said that the fire incident occurred yesterday.
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The Vice President of the Nigerian Community in Turkey, Enifome Ubogu, has claimed that about 70 percent of Nigerians resident in Turkey are undocumented migrants whose papers or residency permits have expired.
Speaking on Thursday, the international businessman disclosed that about 600,000 Nigerians, including students, were currently residing in Turkey.
Ubogu, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Vuslat and Fome Nigeria Limited, stated these in an interview with journalists in his office in Abuja after a two-day Nigerians in Diaspora Investment Summit organized by Nigerians in Diaspora Commission.
While stressing that most Nigerians in Turkey had refused to …
Algerian security forces have arrested thousands of migrants and asylum seekers, cramming them onto trucks and buses before expelling them across the border in Niger, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
“Algeria is entitled to protect its borders, but not to arbitrarily detain and collectively expel migrants, including children and asylum seekers, without a trace of due process,” HRW said.
Over 3,400 migrants have been expelled in the past month, HRW said in a statement issued in Beirut.
It brings the total number expelled this year to over 16,000, the watchdog …
More and more migrants are crossing, Europe is closing its ports and no humanitarian ships are carrying out rescues. As the coronavirus pandemic dominates headlines, activists fear the Mediterranean is the scene of an overlooked “tragedy”.
A handful of migrant landings have taken place in recent weeks, including 79 people who arrived last weekend in Italy — a country under fire even before the outbreak for refusing to allow private vessels carrying migrants to dock.
International organisations and NGOs say the situation is bleak, as all rescue operations were ceased as of last week.
“If there is no help at …
While countries across Africa have been closing their borders as part of efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, migrants and people on the move are paying a high price.
Over the past two weeks, hundreds of women, men and children have been stuck in Niger, a country that represents a traditional corridor of transit for seasonal labourers from West Africa heading to Libya or Algeria, as well as people hoping to move further to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Cross River Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has called on foreign migrants, who are yet to be captured in its database, to do so before the January 2020 deadline.
The Comptroller of NIS in the state, Mr Okey Ezugwu, made the call during the end of year party held at the Command’s headquarters to celebrate the year’s activities in Calabar.
Ezugwu said that the Federal Government gave six months for the migrants to register for free in the NIS database so that they can be accounted for.
According to him, the command cannot guarantee the stay
As bereaved families in Vietnam prayed for their missing sons and daughters, some of whose identities emerged online, Robinson made no statement in a brief video appearance at a court in Chelmsford, northeast of London.
He has been scheduled to enter a plea at London’s Old Bailey court on November 25.
The eight women and 31 men found Wednesday in a refrigerated container in Essex, southeast England, were originally identified as Chinese.
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Hundreds of undocumented migrants calling themselves “black vests” stormed the Pantheon monument in central Paris on Friday demanding the right to remain in France.
Police on the scene told Reuters an estimated 200 to 300 protesters, mostly from West Africa, managed to get into the Left Bank mausoleum where national heroes including Voltaire and Victor Hugo are buried.
Young men were chanting “black vests” – …
The Trump administration has announced plans to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The news came after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the thousands of Central American migrants who have come to the U.S. in search of asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico.
U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said funds for programs in those countries would not be provided until the administration is satisfied these governments are taking concrete actions to reduce the number of migrants coming to the U.S.
“Working with Congress, we will reprogram those funds to …
