Monthly Archives: May 2018
US Immigration recalls over 8,500 Green Cards
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday that thousands of Permanent Resident cards will be recalled because of a production error.
The federal immigration agency...
Kenya government announces student loan reprieve and tells diaspora to pay up
Did you attend a Kenyan university and still owe the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) money on your student loan? if you do, then...
Jambo Africa opens second location in Brooklyn Center
Jambo Africa Restaurant has opened a second location about a mile south of its current location on 1601 Freeway Blvd, Brooklyn Center. The new...
Twin Cities Comcast volunteers come together for “Comcast Cares Day”
Comcast NBCUniversal employees and their families, friends, and community partners participated in the 17th annual Comcast Cares Day on April 21. It is the...
This is how Trump is really changing immigration
A Trump supporter named John B. who emailed me recently wrote that, "No one is against legal immigration." President Trump and his administration are,...
Minnesota Vikings draft Nigerian-born Ade Aruna
The Vikings had the final pick of the sixth round of the 2018 NFL Draft on and used the 218th overall selection on Ade...
Kofi Annan: Millions of African children denied basic human rights
Nobel laureate and former United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, said on Monday the world is squandering the potential of African children by not giving...
New restrictions on F-1 students after graduation
A new revision by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is expected to dampen international students’ prospects of getting a job in the...
2017 Remittances: Nigeria tops in Africa at US$22 billion
Remittances to low- and middle-income countries rebounded to a record level in 2017 after two consecutive years of decline, says the World Bank’s latest...
US Immigration to start using US Postal signature confirmation service for Green Cards
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the agency will begin phasing in use of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) Signature Confirmation...
Egyptian Photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, aka Shawkan,to receive 2018 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize...
Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, known as Shawkan, has been selected by an independent international jury of media professionals as the laureate of the...