Foreign Affairs

1.4 MILLION FACE DEPORTATION IN US, 3,690 NIGERIANS AFFECTED About 3,690 Nigerians in the United States are faced with deportation as Donald Trump begins a crackdown on illegal immigrants in the country. In a document compiled by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations and sighted by our correspondent on Tuesday, the agency revealed the data is broken …

TRUMP HALTS HIV FUNDING FOR NIGERIA, OTHER COUNTRIES The US government has halted the support for HIV treatment in Nigeria and other developing countries following an order by President Donald Trump. The US State Department stopped the disbursement of funds from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a programme for HIV treatment in Africa and developing countries, for …

BRAZIL PROTESTS US DEPORTATION OF 88 CITIZENS IN HANDCUFFS Brazilian officials demanded that U.S. agents remove handcuffs from a group of deportees flown to Brazil on Friday. A prominent minister in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration condemned the practice as a “blatant disrespect” for the rights of Brazilian citizens, Reuters reports. Acting on orders from Justice Minister Ricardo …

TRUMP PARDONS 23 PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS WHO WERE PROSECUTED FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST President Trump pardoned 23 peaceful pro-life protesters today who the White House says were unjustly targeted for prosecution by the Biden Administration. In signing the pardons, Trump said what the Biden Administration had done to them was “ridiculous.” “Twenty-three people were prosecuted, they should not have been prosecuted – …

TRUMP ON RAMPAGE AS US AGENTS RAID WORKSITES, ARREST OVER 500 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, DETAIN 373, DEPORT HUNDREDS The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed the arrest of 583 individuals in a large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration. ICE agents have been raiding some worksites in New Jersey as the security operatives begin the execution of President Donald Trump’s …

TRUMP ORDERS RELEASE OF LONG-SECRET FINAL FILES ON JFK, RFK, MLK ASSASSINATIONS President Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification and release of long-secret files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, 78, announced the actions in the Oval Office — after decades of speculation and …

LOTS OF NIGERIANS WILL BE CAUGHT IN THE WEB. OF TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BAN – AKANDE A former presidential media aide, Laolu Akande, has faulted President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship. The former lecturer of African history at New York College expressed this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday. The move was part of Trump’s …

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP EXECUTIVE ORDER A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a request made by four Democratic-led states to issue a temporary restraining order against the executive order signed by Trump that purports to limit …

TRUMP REVOKES EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1965 President Trump issued a sweeping executive order Tuesday night revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in federal government. Why it matters: This takes the current anti-DEI activism on diversity, equity and inclusion to a new level — abolishing decades of government standards on diversity and equal opportunity, and seeking to …

NIGERIA’S BALANCE OF TRADE COULD WORSEN UNDER TRUMP – ECONOMIST President Donald Trump on Monday became the 47th president of the United States, marking his second time as the country’s top leader. The President has also taken sweeping steps to reimagine the country’s relationship with immigration, its economy, global health, among others. Prof. Godwin Oyedokun, a don at Lead City …