Anxiety Heightens Among Nigerian Immigrants Over Donald Trump’s Deportation Policy Sunday Ehigiator
Several Nigerians living in the United States (US) are currently experiencing heightened anxiety due to President
Donald Trump's renewed call for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. This anxiety has been further fueled by social media warnings
and unverified videos allegedly showing United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducting raids in public spaces frequented by Africans.
A viral message circulating on platforms like WhatsApp warns: “If you know anybody that does not have American papers/ID, tell them to avoid African Markets and
International Markets. ICE raided Saraga Market on Morse Road today in Columbus, Ohio, USA.” The claim, however, remains unverified.
Adding to the panic, a widely shared video purports to show an ICE operation but appears unrelated,
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PDP Governors Move to Save Party from Crises Endorse Udeh-Okoye as National Secretary Advise party’s leadership to hold NEC meeting March 13
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
In a last-ditch effort to save the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from self-
annihilation, governors under the party met yesterday in Asaba, Delta State and took some major decisions that might save the party, including confirming Sunday Udeh-Okoye as
the National Secretary, while taking a swipe at some policies by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The governors also mandated the National Executive Committee (NEC)
of the party to ensure that they meet at a date not later than March 13, 2025. This was as a chieftain of the party, Chief Olabode George, called out former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar and former governor of Rivers State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike for allowing their personal ambitions to destroy the party which he described
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PDP REVIVAL ON THEIR MINDS...
L-R: Governors of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke; Akwa Ibom, Umo Eno; Enugu, Dr. Peter Mbah; Rivers, Siminalayi Fubara; Bauchi, Senator Bala Muhammed; PDP Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagun; Delta, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori; Bayelsa, Senator Douye Diri, Zamfara, Dauda Lawal and Plateau, Caleb Mutfwang, after the PDP Governors’ Forum meeting held in Asaba…yesterday