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.
The Lagos State Government today sunday declared tomorrow monday public holiday to mark June 12 celebration in the State,saying that the State remains committed to the ideals of the annulled 1993 Presidential election.In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government,Mr Tunji Bello on behalf of the State Governor,Mr Akinwunmi Ambode,the government said the holiday was in honour of the ideas which June 12,1993 Presidential election represents being a day that the country experienced an election that was adjudged as the freest and fairest in Nigeria's history.The Governor said 24 years after,the ideals of June 12 commemoration were worth celebrating,describing the day as one of the most defining moments of the country's political history which has positively shaped its democratic rule.Governor Ambode said the time has come for Nigerians to go beyond the commemoration and entrench a viable democracy as a way to immortalise the late presumed winner of June 12,1993 Presidential election,Chief M.K.O Abiola through the practice of true federalism and conduct of credible and fair elections.He said ''June 12,1993 is a day we must not forget in the annals of our democratic history.Our present democratic experience may still be far from the ideal but we must all make concerted efforts to entrench fiscal federalism which is the only way to achieve true nationhood''.
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