Muslim majorities Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/muslim-majorities/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Muslim majorities Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/muslim-majorities/ 32 32 Nigeria pleads with US to lift punitive visa restrictions https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/nigeria-pleads-with-us-to-lift-punitive-visa-restrictions/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/nigeria-pleads-with-us-to-lift-punitive-visa-restrictions/ Nigeria’s pleading with Washington to remove it from a list of countries denied immigrant visas to the United States. The stricter measures apply from today to citizens from Africa’s most populous country. ends intro The Trump administration says Nigeria is not complying with security and information sharing demands from Washington. Nigeria is one of 13 […]

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]]> Nigeria’s pleading with Washington to remove it from a list of countries denied immigrant visas to the United States.

The stricter measures apply from today to citizens from Africa’s most populous country.

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The Trump administration says Nigeria is not complying with security and information sharing demands from Washington.

Nigeria is one of 13 countries -most of them with Muslim majorities – receiving harsher treatment from the US.

Interior Minister Ogbeni Aregbesola pleaded with the US Ambassador in Abuja Mary Beth Leonard.

Her says as a close ally Nigeria does not deserve such treatment and assures her his government has addressed most of the UN misgivings.

Leonard’s response to the appeal is not know but she told the minister the US is determined to continue collaboration with Nigeria.

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