Insecurity: Issue order to arrest herdsmen with AK-47 weapons, DESOPADEC tells Buhari
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By Emma Amaize
THE Commissioner representing Udu, Uvwie, Ughelli South and Urhobo of Warri South in Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Delta State, Olorogun Vincent Oyibode, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to issue directive to apprehend Fulani herdsmen found with AK-47 weapons as a way of tackling the rising insecurity in the country.
Oyibode, who addressed newsmen as part of activities to mark his 46th birthday, said, “Section 33 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution provides that persons living in Nigeria, shall have a right to life and no one shall be deprived intentionally, of his life unless in execution of the sentence of a court of criminal office of which he has been found guilty.
Refugee Commission meets Cameroonian Officials over President Buhari’s Repatriation Directives
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By Tordue Salem – Abuja
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons(NCFRMI), has held talks with Cameroonian authorities for the safe return of refugees to the Nigeria.
The Honourable Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed (Lado) met with the officials of the Cameroonian government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Maroua, Cameroon, over the weekend.
The meeting, which is a follow-up of meetings in 2017 initiated by the then commissioner and now minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk, also led to the successful return of 134 Nigerians from Cameroon.
By Joseph Erunke
A total of 4982 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon are set to return as the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons,NCFRMI, has begun moves to that effect.
Out of the number,a total of 3224 refugees are returning to Banki town and the other 1758 to Bama town,both in Borno State, respectively.
The Federal Commissioner,.NCFRMI,Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed,at the weekend, met with the officials of the Cameroonian government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Maroua, Cameroon, to discuss and arrive at modalities for the repatriation.
The development came on the heels of President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent directive that all Nigerian refugees in Cameroon be returned back home safely to a life of dignity and pride with immediate effect.
One motherâs quest captures the challenges as Biden seeks to reunite separated migrant families
By Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff,Updated February 6, 2021, 3:29 p.m.
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WASHINGTON â Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia answered the call from an unknown number with suspicion.
She was scared and alone in a small apartment in Framingham, desperate to find her 7-year-old daughter after they had been separated a month earlier without any explanation at an Arizona detention center. At the time, in mid-2018, the
public was only becoming aware of what immigration lawyers along the US-Mexico border had long suspected: The US government was splitting migrant families apart not by incompetence or chance but as a matter of policy, a form of deterrence, as then Attorney General Jeff Sessions described it, to discourage
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a review of asylum processing at the U.S.-Mexico border and the immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former President Donald Trump's hardline policies.