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  • Trump threatens to shut border with Mexico soon

    Trump threatens to shut border with Mexico soon

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    Bayo Millz
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    U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to shut the border with Mexico in the coming week, if the southern neighbour failed to prevent migrants from reaching and crossing the frontier. “If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States (though) our Southern Border, I will be CLOSING the Border, or large sections…

  • FG closes land borders ahead of presidential poll

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    Bayo Millz
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    The Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), has directed the closure of all Nigerian land borders with effect from Friday Feb. 15 to Sunday Feb. 17 for the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections. A press statement issued by the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, in Abuja on Thursday said that…

  • Seme-Krake border will foster Nigeria-Benin interests –Buhari

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    Femi Ajasa
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    President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said that the inauguration of the new Seme-Kraker joint border will foster the common interests of Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Buhari said this as he inaugurated the new Economic Community of West African States Border Posts at Seme-Krake and Neope-Akanu in Badagry. In a statement issued by his…

  • Pregnant cow bags death sentence for illegal border crossing

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    Olaotan Falade
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    A pregnant cow will be executed as a result of crossing from her European Union farm in Bulgaria into the non-EU Serbia. Daily Mail reports that Penka, a pregnant red cow who is due in around three months’ time, wandered westwards away from her herd near the village of Kopilovtsi, straying over the border into…

  • Italy protests to France over border incident

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    Bayo Millz
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    Italy on Saturday protested to France over a incident in which French border police entered a clinic run by a non-governmental organization that cares for migrants trying to cross the Alps, the foreign ministry said. The episode angered many politicians, some of whom saw it as a violation of Italian territory. The ministry, which had…

  • Czech, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia offer 35m euros for Libyan border protection

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    The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have offered 35 million euros (41 million dollars) to assist an EU project aiming at beefing up border protection in Libya. This is in an effort to help tackle the bloc’s migration crisis in the area, the four countries said this in a statement while addressing the root…

  • We are tackling menace of porous borders -Osinbajo

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    Femi Ajasa
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    The Vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has reiterated the Federal Government’s efforts in tackling the menace of porous borders to curtail smuggling of counterfeit products and boost local production. Osinbajo stated this while playing host to a delegation of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) on Thursday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to a press…