U.S ANNOUNCES VISA CURBS FOR SOME FOREIGN NATIONALS IN SOUTH AFRICA. (PHOTO).
U.S announces visa curbs for some foreign nationals in South Africa Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday the U.S. government was announcing a new visa restriction policy targeting some foreign nationals in South Africa. The policy targets "foreign nationals who are responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa," Rubio said in a statement. "The South African government has not adequately addressed the previously laid out concerns," Rubio said, Reuters reported. Relations between Washington and Pretoria have soured since the start of Donald Trump's second term, with the U.S. president criticizing the country for its policies aimed at addressing racial inequality.
In a bid to finding a lasting solution to the protracted crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party,{PDP},the Inspector General of Police,IGP Solomon E. Arase,fdc,NPM convened a meeting with all Stakeholders in his Abuja office on friday 17th June,2016,and called for peace among the parties,particularly Senator Ali Modu Sherif and Senator Ahmed Makarfi.After exhaustive deliberations,in the meeting that was also attended by the Director General of Department of State Services {DSS},Lawal Musa Daura,each of the factions0Sen Ali Modu Sherif's and Sen Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi's led factions agreed to nominate four representatives,each,for peace talks to arrive at a harmonized position within one week' while the PDP Secretariat at Wadata House Plaza and Legacy House should be under lock and key pending the outcome of the resolution.While appealing to the politicians to help in educating their followers on the need to act and conduct themselves within the ambit of the law,the IGP said the Force would not relent in its mandate to protect lives and property without fear or favour.-ACP Olabisi Kolawole,Force Public Relations Officer,Force Headquarters,Abuja.
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