What started as a small demonstration has turned into a two-week standoff as residents and environmentalists fight outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s effort to wall off sections of the U.S.-Mexico border with shipping containers. Eko Hot Blog reports that Twenty protesters withstood freezing temperatures over the weekend to defy the project, which started in August … Read more
Resistance is mounting to a controversial plan from Arizona’s governor to build a wall of shipping containers along the US-Mexico border. Eko Hot Blog reports that the makeshift barrier is being built by Governor Doug Ducey in his waning days in office. EDITOR’S PICKS New Orleans: Man Kills Female Uber Driver Atlanta: Nurses Under Fire … Read more
The Federal Government has approved the reopening of Idiroko and 3 additional land borders shut in August 2019 as part of efforts to curtail smuggling and boost local production of rice “Idiroko border post, Ogun State (South-West Zone); Jibiya border post, Katsina State (North-West Zone); Kamba border post, Kebbi State (North-West Zone); and Ikom border … Read more