Felix Duru Mbah

The Trump administration has ordered U.S embassies worldwide to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students as it prepares to implement comprehensive social media screening for all international applicants --in a development that could also affect Nigerians bidding to study in the U.S. A Tuesday, May 27, State Department cable instructs consular sections to pause adding “any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued” within days. The directive, first reported by Politico and now confirmed by The Guardian UK , could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities –…

A major integrity scandal of seismic proportions is presently rocking the Ghanaian government following the unearthing of a scam involving staff members of the country's Mission in Washington DC. With immediate effect, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recalled all staff of the Mission over the alleged fraudulent activities uncovered in the embassy. A report in a government daily said some staff members of the embassy were found to have allegedly created a parallel bank account to the official accounts into which they collect visa and other service fees due the embassy. Several millions of US Dollars may be involved…