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BREAKING NEWS: Italian Government issues Legal Status, Work Permit to 650,000 Undocumented Nigerian migrants, other African nationals…for proving essential by caring for the elderly and picking crops during the Coronavirus crisis *Touching story of how many Africans endured pains of homelessness and dejection * Most of these migrants are found in Naples-a situation that earned the city the ‘Africa of Italy’ During Covid-19 lockdown in Italy, African migrants were deployed in farms across Italy to tend to crops and perform sundry farm duties * “The food on our table comes from these fields. Now we must hand over those rights which have been denied to those who work in them. The permits – which won’t give migrants the right to vote – will be valid for six months and will be renewable. They were proposed by the agricultural minister Teresa Bellanova. The measure could be inserted into a temporary government decree with immediate effect but will be voted on in parliament after 60 days” – Peppe Provenzano, minister for the south of Italy * BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF
BREAKING
NEWS:
Italian
Government issues Legal Status, Work Permit to 650,000 Undocumented
Nigerian migrants, other African nationals…for
proving essential by caring for the elderly and picking crops during
the...
PAINFULLY AVOIDABLE! 25-year-old Nigerian-American student, BASSEY OFFIONG, weeks before graduation at Western Michigan University, Dies of Coronavirus …Chemical engineering student refused Covid-19 tests in the Kalamazoo area, where he lived off-campus, despite experiencing symptoms like fever, fatigue and breathing difficulties *Eventually hospitalised at Beaumont, in Royal Oak, had last week medication on a ventilator in the facility’s intensive care unit *“My dear sweet cousin, this is unreal. I don’t even know where to begin. May your soul rest in eternal peace. You did everything and more with your time here on Earth, and although you weren’t anywhere near done in your purpose”-Deceased cousin, Rosalyn Afiong *WMU president, Edward Montgomery: “On behalf of the entire Bronco community, I want to extend my deepest condolences to Bassey Offiong entire family, including his sister Asari, who has been generous in communicating with us regularly” * BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF
PAINFULLY
AVOIDABLE!
25-year-old
Nigerian-American student, BASSEY OFFIONG, weeks before graduation at
Western Michigan University, Dies of Coronavirus
…Chemical
engineering student refused Covid-19 tests...
PAINFUL DEATH! Nigerian born British Bus Driver in London, EMEKA NYACK IHENACHO contracts Coronavirus…Died hours after lamenting if he skip work his take-home-pay would be cut, saying in tears ‘Mum, I’m not going to make it’ *Complained bitterly of lack of personal protective equipment for transport workers * Hardworking father of a seven-year-old son regularly parked his bus at the Holloway depot, proudly drives it through the streets of Islington * He was one of eight London bus workers who died in the last few days, suffered from mild asthma, Family members now crowdfunding money for his funeral costs * “I’m heartbroken. I’m in so much pain. It’s a pointless loss of a life for doing a job he loved. I only discovered after talking to my daughter that she begged him not to go to work. He made friends very easily. He would talk to anybody. He always enjoyed spending time with myself, his sister and we would watch movies and Love Island”- Anne Nyack, deceased mother cried * “I called 999 again and said he was screaming, calling out: ‘I need an ambulance’. I held his head between my hands and said: ‘Look at me, you’re not going anywhere’, and the look of fear in his eyes will haunt me for the rest of my life”-Family member * BY ADEOLA RUBEN/REPORTER, UK & GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF
PAINFUL
DEATH!
Nigerian
born British
Bus Driver in London, EMEKA NYACK IHENACHO contracts
Coronavirus…Died
hours after lamenting if he skip work his take-home-pay would be cut,
saying in tears ‘Mum, I’m...
PAINFUL! Nigerian born Naturalized American renowned Epidemiologist, CALEB ANYA sacrificed Life to save hundred Covid-19 patients inside New York Hospital…dies of Coronavirus infection, family want him cremated * Wore normal hospital garb, Covid-19 kit for five days * Plus his Life as a Pastor, Regrets & Aspiration for Nigeria * Why he prays before any medical operation * Last word to wife on dying bed: “Honey, I love you so much. I am so sorry for not staying back with you as you earlier advised me in Maryland. I tried to stay safe here in New York Hospital, yet I caught Covid-19. It pained me that I will not be able to celebrate my wedding anniversary with you and also help Nigerian government to solve the Coronavirus pandemic. Please forgive me” * BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief
PAINFUL!
Nigerian
born Naturalized American renowned Epidemiologist, CALEB ANYA
sacrificed Life to save hundred Covid-19 patients inside New York
Hospital…dies
of Coronavirus infection, family want him cremated
*
Wore...
Making Africa Proud Abroad: INSIDE the World of ADEBAYO OGUNLESI, Nigerian billionaire owner of London Gatwick and Edinburgh Airports…Son of the first Nigerian professor of medicine at University of Ibadan, possesses a Net Worth of 20 million dollars * Received a B.A. with first class honors in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in England. Later bagged a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A.from the Harvard Law Review * Served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court * Made wave as attorney in the corporate practice group of the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore * Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston * He is Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners, a joint venture whose initial investors included Credit Suisse and General Electric * BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief
Making
Africa Proud Abroad:
INSIDE
the World of ADEBAYO OGUNLESI, Nigerian billionaire owner of London
Gatwick and Edinburgh Airports…Son
of the first Nigerian professor of medicine at University of Ibadan,
possesses...
Nigerian Drug Queen in America, TEMITOPE AYONI OLAIYA, alias ‘Tammy’ sentenced to 10 years in prison for Cocaine conspiracy, multiple fraud scheme * 41-year old Green Card holder in Maryland recruit men, assist couriers in obtaining passports, visas, booked their travel arrangement *Suspect ensure couriers’ travel to foreign countries to obtain drugs, bring same into USA *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF
Nigerian
Drug Queen in America, TEMITOPE AYONI OLAIYA, alias ‘Tammy’ sentenced
to 10 years in prison for Cocaine conspiracy, multiple fraud scheme
*
41-year old Green Card holder in Maryland recruit men, assist
couriers...
Nigerian Detainee in American Jail, ANTHONY OLUSEYE AKINYEMI Strangulates self inside ICE Custody within 24hours…Pronounced deceased after been found unresponsive in his cell at the Worcester County Jail * Attempts made by Emergency personnel to revive 56-year-old unsuccessful. * Locked-up in ICE custody a day after conviction in Baltimore City Circuit Court for a sex offense and assault * Immigration detainer earlier lodged against him for sexual abuse of a minor, entered the U.S. lawfully on a non-immigrant visa, failed to comply with the terms of his admission and was in removal proceedings before federal immigration courts *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief
Nigerian
Detainee in American Jail, ANTHONY OLUSEYE
AKINYEMI Strangulates self inside ICE Custody within
24hours…Pronounced
deceased after been found unresponsive in his cell at the Worcester
County Jail
*
Attempts...
Breaking News! Controversy, Disinformation trail Nigerian e-Passports’ renewal in Texas…angry Nigerians, Embassy Agents differ on procedure for biometric exercise * ‘We are doing our best to help Nigerians process their passport renewal. Many Nigerians are impatient. These Nigerians damaged, destroyed the door of a church (our earlier venue for biometric on South Carrier Parkway at Grand Prairie. Five times we called the police on them to maintain order. We will have to underwrite the church doors’ repair. We all have to maintain Nigeria’s image positively Overseas. For Nigerians’ comfort, we had to move the processing to a more spacious church on Jefferson street’ -Olu Korede, one of the agents assigned from Nigeria Consulate of Atlanta * ‘I can assure you that the official agents (Ambassador Stella Onuoha, Olu Korede) are lying. After we knocked the church doors severally and no one opened, we called the cops on them. That was on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at former St. Joseph’s Anglican church campus located at 4829 South Carrier Parkway at Grand Prairie when we realized the doors were locked, yet suspected biometric was on-going inside the building. At the end, some of us were eventually taken care of’- Oyeyemi Olatunji, one of the protesting Nigerians *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief reporting LIVE from Grand Prairie
Breaking
News!
Controversy,
Disinformation trail Nigerian e-Passports’ renewal in Texas…angry
Nigerians,
Embassy Agents
differ on procedure for biometric exercise
*
‘We are doing our best to help Nigerians...
EDICIÓN ESPAÑOLA: El padrino de Historias de Noticias de Interés Generales en Nigeria rompe el silencio: ‘KUNLE Bakare, ALCALDE AKINPELU establecí la Revista de Semanario de Fama con éxito, el Diario más Grande y más Famoso de Nigeria alguna vez’-FEMI AKINTUNDE JOHNSON (FAJ) … Los motivos inéditos por qué dejé la Revista de Elogio Nacional, abrazaron la vocación de medios más alta * La Prensa nigeriana ha seguido funcionando en conmensurado a sus capacidades relativas dentro del contexto de los desafíos económicos predominantes que han retenido carreras de letra, ventas y presupuestos publicitarios * Hay libertad relativa de expresión en Nigeria bajo el Gobierno del presidente Muhammadu Buhari * No es cierto que la agitación de pocos legisladores americanos hiciera la liberación de Omoyele Sowore y Dasuki posible * Necesidad del Gobierno federal de establecer una atmósfera de respeto mutuo y seguridad de vida para practicantes de medios para prosperar Días de planta de hoja perenne de *Recalls en el Periódico de Perforadora más highpoint de carrera de medios El Poste de *Teaches Gradúa a estudiantes (PGD) un semestre en un curso llamado Cuestiones Actuales En la Comunicación de misa, con el Periodismo de Celebridad que es la clave en el Instituto nigeriano del Periodismo GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU, el Jefe de Oficina Extranjero de América
EDICIÓN ESPAÑOLA:
El padrino de Historias de
Noticias de Interés Generales en Nigeria rompe el silencio:
‘KUNLE
Bakare, ALCALDE AKINPELU establecí la Revista de Semanario de Fama
con éxito, el Diario...
BULLY FIGHTING IN FACE OF SEEMING IDENTITY THEFT: Nigerian born Muslim Hijab-wearing Woman, FOLAKE ADEBOLA in Dallas challenges Chicken Express restaurant for sending her home…’We identified her as Stefane Coleman by our investigation’, Cables News Network *Converted to Islam in August last year but started working at the restaurant for about three months * “Once I clocked in, the manager said ‘Take off anything that doesn’t involve Chicken Express,’ which I knew he was talking about my hijab. So I didn’t react, I just went to the back and took off my jacket and my purse. Five minutes later, he called me into the office telling me that I have to take it off because it’s not a part of the work uniform.’ she tell CNN * Rhett Warren, a lawyer for the operator of the Chicken Express restaurant insisted that the manager who fired Adebola was wrong BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF & CHRISTINA IMADE/SPECIAL CRIME REPORTER, DALLAS
BULLY
FIGHTING IN FACE OF SEEMING IDENTITY THEFT:
Nigerian
born Muslim Hijab-wearing Woman, FOLAKE ADEBOLA in Dallas challenges
Chicken Express
restaurant for sending her home…’We
identified her as Stefane Coleman...
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