The Trump administration said Friday it will add six new countries to its travel ban. Restrictions on entering the U.S. will now apply to certain travelers and migrants from Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, as well as Sudan, Tanzania, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official. Nonimmigrant visas were not affected for the additional countries, Wolf said. Those visas are given to people travelling to the US for a temporary stay. They include visas for tourists, those doing business or people seeking medical treatment.  The government will also stop issuing "diversity visas" to citizens of Sudan and Tanzania.   Wolf said the six countries failed to meet US security and information-sharing standards, which necessitated the new restrictions. The problems Wolf cited ranged from subpar passport technology to a failure to sufficiently exchange information on "terrorism" suspects and criminals. "The...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director-General (DG), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has acknowledged that the Federal Government in line with the new National Minimum Wage has approved N33,000 allowance for Corps members. The NYSC-DG revealed this while speaking to Corps members at the NYSC Bauchi State Secretariat during his working visit to the State. In a press statement posted on the official Facebook page of NYSC, the DG explained: “provision had been made for the new allowance in the year 2020 Budget, adding that payment would commence as soon as funds are released by the appropriate authorities.” Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim also cautioned Corps members to be security-conscious and counseled against unconfirmed reports, news mongering  and negative usage of the Social Media. Corps members were also advised to avoid unauthorized journey .

                       Daniel Olukoya Daniel Olukoya, the senior pastor of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, has rebuffed claims that MFM denomination  has the highest number of  single  ladies in Nigeria. Olukoya said this while answering to reports that he has banned members of his  church  from wedding  Christians from other ministries. In a statement declared publicly  by his representative Collins Edomaruse, the man of God contested that for the past 10 years, his  church  through its singles programme, Gen 218, has conducted over 150,000  weddings  and that he encourages his members to wed anyone either within or outside his  church.   “We encourage and actively support all spinsters and bachelors regardless of denomination, to build their relationships on biblical standards. We strongly advise all our single...

                              CSP. Francis Osagie Erhabor Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Francis Osagie Erhabor, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of D Division Itam, Uyo, Akwa Ibom state . The Police officer is reported to have never taken a bribe in his 29 years of active service. CSP Erhabor was appointed as the Pipeline Commander by the PPMC with an allowance of N37, 500. In 2019 he was seduced and bribed N6m to bend the rules but he rejected the offer. CSP Francis Erhabor, Divisional Police Officer of Itam, Akwa Ibom State, who rejected a N6m bribe has been named as winner of 2019 Integrity Icon award. The Integrity Icon Summit and Award organised by Accountability Lab in partnership with Luminate, MacArthur and Ford Foundation, is a global campaign powered by citizens in search of honest government officials. CSP Erhabor was nominated alongside four other finalists for th...

                    Ayoola Babalola Human rights lawyer, Mr Inibehe Effiong, says the Department of State Services has arrested his client who is also a campus news paper editor, Ayoola Babalola, for allegedly publishing articles critical of the President ,Muhammadu Buhari , and All Progressives Congress big shot, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. In the article, it was stated that the Buhari regime did not want Nigeria to be good. In a second article titled, “Will EFCC investigate Chief Bola Tinubu?” it was mentioned that the EFCC may not act on the petition it received as regards the alleged cash-laden bullion vans seen in Tinubu’s Lagos home on the eve of the 2019 general elections. In a third article written by Femi Adeyeye in October 2019 titled, “Sowore, An Equal Opportunity Offender”, the newspaper wrote glowingly of  Sahara Reporters  Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, who was at the time being detained by the DSS for all...

                              Muhammed Babandede The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) on Saturday January 25, announced that it blocked the trafficking of nine girls through the Muritala Muhammed Airport in Lagos to Lebanon, Cairo, Dubai and India. In a statement released by NIS’ spokesman Sunday James,  the girls who were set to board Ethiopian, Peace, Egypt and East Airlines were screwed up  after not being able to provide any information about their prospective employers or the nature of their jobs in the countries they were going to.   On further questioning, two of the girls said they were "going to hustle" in Dubai while the remaining girls claimed they were going to India for “medical treatment without referrals.”  Sunday James said;    “ The confessed they were going for hustle in Dubai. Another three, of the girls, claimed they were g...

                       Major General Hakeem Otiki The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday ordered an interim forfeiture of $376,120 allegedly connected to Major General Hakeem Otiki. This followed an ex parte application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu ordered the commission to publish the court order in a national daily to enable any one interested in the money to appear and show cause why it should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government. The judge gave any interested person 14 days from the date of publication to show cause. She then adjourned till February 24 for hearing. Otiki is facing charges before the Army court martial in respect of the funds. The EFCC alleged that Otiki detailed some soldiers to provide escort from Sokoto to Kaduna for one Alhaji Ado Aliyu, a bureau de change operator, but  the five  soldiers  absconded with a large amo...