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Nigeria: Second Term – I’ll Decide in 2014, Says Jonathan

19 November 2012   President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday described as premature and diversionary efforts to make him voice out his political plans after the end of his first term in office in 2015. Jonathan, fielding questions from a panel of editors during a presidential media chat monitored on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), however, promised to […]

Newark City Hall Raises Rwandan Flag on 50th Annivesary of Independence

The city of Newark on Thursday, October 25 hosted the Rwandan community at a flag raising ceremony held at Newark City hall. Rwanda suffered a bitter civil war in 1994 that saw more than half a million people dead. Essentially, the 1994 war in Rwanda was directed against the Tutsi community considered as the minority […]

The Impact of the Presidential Election on U.S. Immigration Policy

By Steve Maggi As an expert on immigration law, I get asked many questions about immigration policy and laws, and now, as November 6th looms on the horizon, almost all questions have to do with what the direction of U.S. immigration policy will be, depending on who wins, and how that will affect foreign nationals […]

BBC: Ghana’s Ashanti crown jewels stolen in Norway hotel

Police in Norway are investigating the theft of some of the Ghanaian Ashanti crown jewels from a hotel in Oslo. The jewels were travelling with King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the ruler of the Ashanti, who is representing Ghana at a conference in the Norwegian capital. A suitcase was snatched from the lobby of the […]

Ghana Plantain stuffed with cocaine seized in UK

First it was the biggest cannabis haul seizure at the UK Heathrow airport but British officials today September 28, 2012 say they have intercepted another drug consignment smuggled from Ghana. The UK Border Force says it has seized a consignment of cocaine weighing about 7.5 kilos. The agency found the consignment Tuesday September 25, 2012 […]

CID nabs Jamaican for cultivating large Wee farm

Personnel of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service have arrested a 58-year-old Jamaican for cultivating 400 acres of cannabis (wee) at Koru in the Alavanyo-Nkonya District in the Volta Region. Also arrested with the suspect, Wesley Appleton, were 10 suspects including three women who were found on the farm during the […]

2012 Africa Day Parade Held in New York

By Kwabena Opong   Africa Day Parade 2012 in New York City held Sunday, September 23, 2012 would probably go down as one of the most memorable festivals organized by Africans in recent times. The highlight of the Parade, besides its goal was the artful acrobatic performance of a masked man from Burkina Faso. The […]

BNI SUMMONS BETTY MOULD … Over £2 million cost on WAMCO case

By Emmanuel Akli, Associate Editor   The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) have summoned a senior policy analyst at the Centre for National Affairs (CNA), Mr. Richard Rocky E. Obeng, and the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Madam Betty Mould-Iddrisu, and two others to a […]

DACA: A risky proposition for anyone who does not fit the ideal applicant model

By Steve Maggi, Esq. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) launched on August 15, 2012, a product of an Executive Order signed by President Obama, is designed with one person in mind, even if it purports to be accessible to many young illegal immigrants. That person is the model student who has kept his […]

Egypt: Scuffles Pick Up Outside U.S. Embassy

Libya has launched an investigation into Tuesday’s attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were … ( Resource: Libya Launches Probe Into U.S. Embassy Attack Confrontations between security forces and protesters have started again outside the United States embassy in Cairo on Thursday. The clashes erupted late […]

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