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Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Jeezuzpick(m): 8:04pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
socialmediaman: This nonsense wouldn't have happened with Atiku. 1 Like |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Jeezuzpick(m): 8:04pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
What's new? They neglect everything! |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by agabaI23(m): 8:06pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
sarrki:Is this Sarrki or someone else? |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by SimonRose(m): 8:06pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
BlackfireX: 1 Like
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Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by CyberWolf: 8:06pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
mrvitalis:You were convinced to suppport Buhari in 2015 because you are very gullible and does not learn from history, same problem with our gullible, brainless and visionless leaders since 1960. 1 Like |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by shogsman(m): 8:10pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
abdullkabar:I tire o my brother. If it's not Nigerians that take everything personal and love to as slick, this shouldn't even be a problem. 1 Like |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by CyberWolf: 8:14pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
fergie001:They even went personal against his children with insults, even gloat and made merry when his sister died in accident during campaign season, now they come to shade crocodile tears.. 2 Likes |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by fergie001: 8:17pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
CyberWolf:.....and get likes.... They did and write worse than the people they call zombies today... God bless you. |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Germi9: 8:20pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
And one MURIC Mumu that just swallowed 6 wraps of fufu will be talking nonsense |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by dalass(f): 8:22pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
DropsMic: As in.... Never ever proactive Smail-paced always... Almost as if he's a slowpoke! ![]() |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by CyberWolf: 8:24pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
fergie001:I’m telling you. I understand the position of their northern colleagues then because of tribal inclination but what I don’t understand was this fellows from south, like this mrvitalis, obiageli, doctokwus, berem, egift, etc.. well I’m happy that we are vindicated at the end. Let them enjoy Buhari they brought to power. |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by ZooOga: 8:27pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
Many ppl are already very upset and angry with this new visa policy. Thousands have made plans for family unification or earn specialized degrees. Many more send billions of dollars back to Africa to care for loved ones. Stay tuned folks! New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa’s Biggest Economy, Nigeria The visa rules will affect nearly a quarter of the people on the African continent, including many hoping to join loved ones already in the U.S. ![]() A street in Kano, Nigeria. Nigeria is one of four African countries that President Trump added to his travel ban on Friday.Credit...KC Nwakalor for The New York Times By Ruth Maclean and Abdi Latif Dahir Published Feb. 2, 2020 Updated Feb. 3, 2020, 6:54 a.m. ET The newlyweds had already been apart for half their yearlong marriage. Miriam Nwegbe was in Nigeria. Her husband was in Baltimore, and until she could join him, everything was on hold: finding a home together, trying for their first baby, becoming an American family. Then, on Friday, their lives were thrown into disarray by the expansion of President Trump’s ban on immigration to include six new countries, including four in Africa. Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, was one of them. “America has killed me,” Ms. Nwegbe’s husband, Ikenna, an optometrist, texted her when he heard. “We are finished.” A year after the Trump administration announced that a major pillar of its new strategy for Africa was to counter the growing influence of China and Russia by expanding economic ties to the continent, it slammed the door shut on Nigeria, the continent’s biggest economy. The travel restrictions also apply to three other African countries — Sudan, Tanzania, and Eritrea — as well as to Myanmar, which is accused of genocide against its Muslim population, and Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet state. The ban will prevent thousands of people from being able to move to the United States. The initial ban, which was put into effect in 2017, restricted travel from some Muslim-majority countries as part of Mr. Trump’s plan to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists.” It has already affected more than 135 million people — many of them Christians — from seven countries. With the new expansion, the ban will affect nearly a quarter of the 1.2 billion people on the African continent, according to W. Gyude Moore, a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, a research group, potentially taking a heavy toll on African economies — and on America’s image in the region. “Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and British firms, backed by their governments, are staking positions on a continent that will define the global economy’s future,” he said, adding, “One hopes that the United States would follow suit and fully engage with the continent — but that hope fades.” ![]() Protesters denouncing President Trump’s travel ban in New York in 2017.Credit...Drew Angerer/Getty Images The rationale for the new restrictions varies depending on country, but the White House announcement said that most of the six countries added to the list did not comply with identity-verification and information-sharing rules. And Nigeria, it said, posed a risk of harboring terrorists who may seek to enter the United States. The country has been hit brutally by the Islamist group Boko Haram, though the extremists have shown little sign that they have the capability to export their fight overseas. Critics, many of whom also denounced the initial ban, saw something far more venal at play. “Trump’s travel bans have never been rooted in national security — they’re about discriminating against people of color,” Senator Kamala Harris, the former Democratic presidential candidate, declared on Sunday. “They are, without a doubt, rooted in anti-immigrant, white supremacist ideologies." Two Democrats still in the race also weighed in. Elizabeth Warren described the measure as a “racist, xenophobic Muslim ban.” Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called it “a disgrace.” And Nancy Pelosi, the house speaker, said Democratic lawmakers would push ahead with a measure to forbid religious discrimination in immigration policy. Beyond those people who may now never make it across American borders, the new ban could also affect millions who have no plans to travel to the United States themselves but may have benefited from the billions of dollars in remittances visa holders send home each year. The United States may also emerge a loser, studies suggest. Nigerians are among the most successful and highly educated immigrants to America. (Mr. Trump, demanding to know why immigration policies did not favor people from countries like Norway, once disparaged those from Africa and Haiti, and said Nigerians would never go back to their “huts” if they were allowed in.) Hadiza Aliyu lives in Borno, the Nigerian state at the epicenter of the Boko Haram crisis that has left tens of thousands dead. But she thought she had found a way out. Ms. Aliyu was preparing to apply to move to the United States, where she once studied and where her two brothers live. She was furious when she heard about the extended ban. “Trump has been looking for a way to get at us Africans for a very long time, and finally got us,” Ms. Aliyu said. “To hell with Republicans and their supremacist ideas.” Mika Moses moved to Minnesota from Nigeria nine years ago to join his mother and siblings, who were allowed entry after the family was attacked in religious riots in their northern city of Kaduna in 1991. His wife, Juliet, and their daughter were planning to join him, but are stuck in Kaduna, where Ms. Moses sells soda in a small store. She said they were heartbroken by the news that the move would now be impossible. “I have been struggling to raise our daughter alone,” she said. “Why would Trump do this to us, after we have waited for nine years?” Nigerians already living in the United States have been calling lawyers to try to figure out whether they will have to leave. Marilyn Eshikena, a biomedical research ethicist, has lived in the United States for the past seven years, but her visa expires this year. Her employer sponsored her application for a green card. “If it turns out that everything needs to stop, they will feel cheated, because they spent a lot of money on this process,” Ms. Eshikena said. “I will also feel cheated, because all the time that I spent working here will ultimately be for nothing. I can’t even imagine what packing up and leaving will mean for me.” Her departure may also have serious consequences for her brother, who is studying in Canada. Ms. Eshikena has been sending part of her earnings to help pay his rent. Some Nigerians praised Mr. Trump for his decision, arguing it might make it more difficult for those responsible for stealing government money back home to find cover in the United States, and force the country’s leaders to be more honest and work harder to develop Nigeria. ![]() Mr. Trump with President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria at the White House in 2018.Credit...Tom Brenner In 2018, 7,922 immigrant visas were issued to Nigerians. Of these, 4,525 went to the immediate relatives of American citizens, and another 2,820 to other family members. An estimated 345,000 people born in Nigeria were living in the United States in 2017, according to the census bureau. If the visas are coveted in Nigeria, they are just as prized in African countries like Eritrea, where government repression is rampant and those who try to leave face obstacles and danger. With more than 500,000 refugees living outside the country, Eritrea was the ninth-largest source of refugees in the world in 2018, according to the United Nations, but fewer than 900 Eritreans received immigrant visas to the United States that year. Abraham Zere, a journalist who moved to the United States from Eritrea in 2012, had dreamed of living in the same country as his mother since leaving home. On Saturday, he said his plans to bring her to the United States had been thrown into disarray. His family has been in constant communication on the messaging platform WhatsApp trying to understand what the ban will mean for them. “This decision complicates everything and creates fear,” said Mr. Zere, 37, a doctoral candidate at the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University. Mr. Zere and other Eritreans say they can’t go back. They fear they will be punished for criticizing the government or leaving without approval. “If I can’t be reunited with my mother,” Mr. Zere said, “it nullifies the whole notion of protection and punishes innocent citizens for reasons they had no slightest part in.” With nine siblings scattered across Europe, Africa, and the United States, Mr. Zere said their family has never had a full family portrait taken. The economic consequences of the ban could be far-reaching, experts said. “Being cut off from the largest economy in the world systematically is problematic,” said Nonso Obikili, a Nigerian economist. The biggest impact, he said, could be on remittances. Nigerians abroad send home billions of dollars each year, $24 billion in 2018 alone, according to the accounting firm PwC. With Nigeria’s economy highly dependent on oil and its unemployment rate at 23 percent, this money provides a lifeline for millions of its citizens. The new restrictions come at a time when the United States says it wants to jockey for power in Africa, particularly through its “Prosper Africa” initiative announced last summer, which aims to double two-way trade and investment. “If on the one hand you’re trying to make a push into Africa, and on the other hand you’re barring the largest African country by population from moving to your country, then it does send mixed signals,” Mr. Obikili said. ![]() Two of the Somali refugees who had been bound for the U.S. in 2017 but were marooned in a transit center in Nairobi after Mr. Trump ordered a travel ban.Credit...Sven Torfinn In January 2017, Mr. Trump’s travel ban targeted several other African nations, including Chad, Libya, and Somalia. Chad was later removed from that list, but the executive order halted the plans of thousands of Somali refugees living in camps in Kenya who were about to travel to the United States and start new lives. According to the United States Department of Homeland Security, nearly 30,000 Nigerians overstayed their nonimmigrant visas in 2018. The number of Nigerians visiting the United States dropped sharply after the Trump administration made it harder for visitors to obtain visas last summer. The new restrictions affect those who want to move to the United States, not visit it. The six countries newly added to the immigration ban are not easily categorized together by religion. Nigeria, for example is thought to be home to more than 200 million people, roughly half of them Muslim and half Christian. Of the four African countries newly singled out, only Sudan has a significant majority of Muslims. The United States has left Sudan on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, even as the country works to reverse decades of authoritarian rule under President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was deposed in April. “This ban contributes to the overall impression that Sudan remains a very fragile state,” said Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, a research group. Many people from the countries newly targeted by the ban said the uncertainty was the hardest thing to bear. Ms. Nwegbe, the newlywed, who works as the chief operating officer of a tourism company that tries to encourage people to visit Africa, said the ban came as she and her husband were building their future. “We’re in limbo and our relationship is suffering,” she said. “This is unnecessary hardship.” Reporting was contributed by Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Eromo Egbejule, Isaac Abrak, Ismail Alfa and Emmett Lindner. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/world/africa/trump-travel-ban.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by clems88(m): 8:30pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
mrvitalis:so you cotributed to the problem we are experiencing now ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by madridsta007(m): 8:34pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
AkpaMgbor: grin grin Most people supported Buhari based on their tribal hatred of GEJ and I get that. The average Nigerian man is inherently tribalist when it comes to politics and power. This is the explanation. Tribalism is very, very, very powerful and compulsive. They didnt get hoodwinked. A tribalist behaves the the Israelites shouting "Crucify Him!!" and "Give us Barnabas the Murderer!!!!" instead of Jesus. The emotion is tribalism and is blocks every sense of thought or rationality. It is a diseased mind. Rationality only comes in when the tribalist realise the evil in their decision. |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by fergie001: 8:34pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
CyberWolf: My bro...you will never lack... |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by mushystuff: 8:39pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
buhariguy: Even Buhari you claim to support will be ashamed of you for this statement because as dull and unaware as he is, he has roused himself just enough to set up an ineffectual committee but here you are, just being a yeoman without direction. 2 Likes |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by mushystuff: 8:43pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
fergie001: That doctokwus was just an apology! You could see the intelligence but you'd never fathom what the hell he thought he saw in Buhari to think he would be better than Jonathan. Today they're wailing and changing their tone after irreversible damage has been done by their blind support. 1 Like |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by fergie001: 8:51pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
mushystuff:My brother.........I weak! |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by mushystuff: 8:51pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
SenecaTheYonger: Keep asking yeye questions there as if you don't know Ghana and Kenya have gone far ahead of this shíthole especially since Buhari became president! Did you not see that even Chad improved their issues and was taken off the ban list? 1 Like |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Gerrard59(m): 8:52pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
AkpaMgbor: Soyinka was enticed with money and goodies. His son became the commissioner of health in Ogun and he (Soyinka) got goodies from Amaechi. So forget anything about intellectuality. Soyinka is one of those Nigerians I describe as so-called intellectuals - people who claim to be educated but are tribalistic and parochial in their reasoning. Let's not forget that Soyinka was 50 years when Buhari was in power as a military general. 3 Likes |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by mushystuff: 9:00pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
efighter: So why did he set up a committee to look into the issues the US long pointed out? Even Buhari has graduated beyond the level of stupidity some of you are still proudly displaying. Have you considered the ling term effect of such a ban? You think Nigeria is one self sufficient country that can survive on its own without favourable engagements with other countries? Wake up please! |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by mushystuff: 9:06pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
olisaEze: He and his kind didn't need any research. For as many paid social media warriors there were for Buhari, there were that many sane Nigerians announcing the evil Buhari represents but because of primordial sentiments and ethno-religious bias, they chose a clear mess now they're suddenly sober and supposedly repentant! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Nobody: 9:06pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
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Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Daniel058(m): 9:19pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
sarrki , God bless you always... Amen |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Oyiboman69: 9:29pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
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Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by obainojazz(m): 9:34pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
sarrki:It took you five years to see the light.. |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by obainojazz(m): 9:35pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
Freddykrueger:I just said this sef.. A whole sarki... Chief BMC |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Cousin9999: 9:40pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
So when are they banning Central Americans, West Asians, and Indians? 1 Like |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by Robbyhuud: 9:43pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
BlackfireX: Is your mumu not too much |
Re: Visa Ban: We Informed Nigeria Of Impending Action Since March 2019 - US by olamakinde(m): 10:01pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
BlackfireX:keep deceiving yourself mbok |
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