socialmediaman:
The tyrant could've let Atiku and the rest face the wrath of the public, he chose to steal the win, there you go!

This nonsense wouldn't have happened with Atiku.

What's new?

They neglect everything!

sarrki:
Can you imagine?





Same way Security and other issues are being treated

Is this Sarrki or someone else?

mrvitalis:
The informed you 10 months ago ...you are now setting committee now to save face abi what ?

And one idiot said he is suppressed about our security situation

How in heavens name was I convinced to support buhari in 2015 ?

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.

abdullkabar:
Please the US should stop bordering us with ban wareva
The deed has been done
We don hear

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.

fergie001:

I went through your posts pre-2015...and one docokwus.....I honestly don't take you guys serious now.
Supporting Buhari isn't my issue with you guys..you have a right to support whomever, but you guys went personal attacking Jonathan, even went to his education, background etc....

Continue to cry....list that as one of your regrets.

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..

CyberWolf:
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..

.....and get likes....
They did and write worse than the people they call zombies today...

God bless you.

And one MURIC Mumu that just swallowed 6 wraps of fufu will be talking nonsense

DropsMic:
Reactive Government
Reactive Government
Reactive Government

As in....

Never ever proactive

Smail-paced always... Almost as if he's a slowpoke!

fergie001:

.....and get likes....
They did and write worse than the people they call zombies today...

God bless you.

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.

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

mrvitalis:
The informed you 10 months ago ...you are now setting committee now to save face abi what ?

And one idiot said he is suppressed about our security situation

How in heavens name was I convinced to support buhari in 2015 ?

so you cotributed to the problem we are experiencing now . Your koboko is doing press up insde acid

AkpaMgbor:

I accepted the almajiri voting Buhari, but can someone explain to me how professors like wole soyinka and Co intentionally got hoodwinked by the Buhari toga? How in God's name did that happen? Many of the educated youths were not born during Buhari's first stint at power but how did those who witnessed his ineptitude and bare-faced bigotry first hand still vote this man? Those are the people who will forever shoulder the blame for this disastrous government. They knowingly cut their nose just to spite their face.

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.

CyberWolf:
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.

My bro...you will never lack...

buhariguy:
you mean we should share security information with pig trump because some crazy fellow want to go to america on free visa.
No need to even set up the useless committee

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.

fergie001:

I went through your posts pre-2015...and one docokwus.....I honestly don't take you guys serious now.
Supporting Buhari isn't my issue with you guys..you have a right to support whomever, but you guys went personal attacking Jonathan, even went to his education, background etc....

Continue to cry....list that as one of your regrets.

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.

mushystuff:


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.

My brother.........I weak!

SenecaTheYonger:
So Nigeria is the only African country with a worst performing metrics on that list? What about Kenya and Ghana? How come they're not on the list? Am I supposed to believe they comply with this new rules better than us?

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?

AkpaMgbor:

I accepted the almajiri voting Buhari, but can someone explain to me how professors like wole soyinka and Co intentionally got hoodwinked by the Buhari toga? How in God's name did that happen? Many of the educated youths were not born during Buhari's first stint at power but how did those who witnessed his ineptitude and bare-faced bigotry first hand still vote this man? Those are the people who will forever shoulder the blame for this disastrous government. They knowingly cut their nose just to spite their face.

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.

efighter:


I am still in support of Buhari. Nigeria has the right to share information with US or not share information with US. No country can force another to do it's will.

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!

olisaEze:


Don’t feel bad, u were amongst the many that were duped by paid social media handlers/e-warriors. A little research on the kind of leader he was back in the day, or the fact that since then he had made little or no effort to improve himself in anyway would have saved u from feeling like dis today.

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!

orunmila144:
my leg after trekking from sangotedo to victoria island today
www.nairaland.com/attachments/10988461_screenshot20200203084509_png1279bdbe73d0c0d27e4963ac413793bd

sarrki , God bless you always... Amen

sarrki:
Can you imagine?





Same way Security and other issues are being treated

It took you five years to see the light..

Freddykrueger:
Useless government. Thank God two high ranking chief zombies above have finally seen the light

I just said this sef.. A whole sarki... Chief BMC

So when are they banning Central Americans, West Asians, and Indians?

BlackfireX:
Nigeria is bigger and better than america , they hate our dear president, and I can see wailers masturbating...





We are patriots
Let's give PMB time to fix this country.

Is your mumu not too much

BlackfireX:
Nigeria is bigger and better than america , they hate our dear president, and I can see wailers masturbating...





We are patriots
Let's give PMB time to fix this country.

keep deceiving yourself mbok