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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he wants to end the automatic right to citizenship for all US-born children of families living illegally in the United States. All children born in the US get citizenship under the constitution. Other measures he outlined would include raising visa fees to pay for a wall along the Mexican border. Immigration is a central plank of Mr Trump's campaign to be the Republican contender in next year's election. "They have to go," he told NBC. A tough deportation policy was needed, he said, because "there's definitely evidence" of crimes linked to immigrants living in the country illegally. If he became president, Mr Trump wouldn't be able to issue an executive order to change or repeal the 14th Amendment of the US constitution giving birthright US citizenship. So what would be his options? 1 - A bill would need to be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress...

The Nigerian Army has denied reports that 150 Nigerians drowned in a river & some shot dead after Boko Haram members invaded their community in Kukuwa-Gari village in Yobe state last Thursday. AFP earlier today reported that some residents of the community said the sect members attacked their community and about 150 people lost their lives. Director Defence Information, Rabe Abubakar spoke to newsmen.

A logistics officer and a mother-of- 2 was horrified to discover a seemingly harmless lump on her ovary was in fact the decades old remains of her unborn 'twin'. Jenny Kavanagh, 45, made the grim discovery after she went to the doctors to have a contraceptive coil implanted and medics insisted on an ultrasound of her ovaries due to her age. Scans revealed a 10cm mass growing in her left ovary and concerned medics warned it could rupture and kill her at any moment. Surgeons told her it was an undeveloped unborn twin which had grown inside her from birth - complete with face, an eye, tooth, and long black hair. She said: 'I feel very lucky that they found it and removed it before it killed me. 'I try not to think of it too much because I don't want to feel sad about it. 'If I'm honest, I did feel sad when I first saw it, because of the size and weight of it, it had already been likened to a baby. 'But I try not to feel ...

A 23-year-old lady, identified only as Oluwakemi, was found on Sunday foaming in the mouth, after which she died in a hospital. PUNCH Metro learnt that Oluwakemi, who was said to be a student of a polytechnic in Oyo State, had come to Capacci, Mowe, Ogun State, two weeks ago to stay with a friend for a church convention. It was gathered that when the convention was over, Oluwakemi said she would be visiting her brother-in-law in an unidentified area in Lagos before returning to the campus. Our correspondent learnt that Oluwakemi went on the visit on Saturday, but came back to complain about headache. On Sunday when the friend and neighbours left the house for the church, Oluwakemi reportedly stayed behind. Our correspondent gathered that the lady was, however, met foaming in the mouth by afternoon. She was then rushed to the Redeemed Health Centre, Mowe, where she later died. The matter was said to have been reported at the Redeemed Police Division, Mowe...

President Buhari has ordered a full investigation into how a wanted terrorist was granted Nigerian Visa in Lebanon to visit the country. An official of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign affairs said in Abuja on Tuesday evening, that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to investigate the circumstances surrounding the issuance of Visa to the wanted terrorist‎ into Nigeria. The  radical Muslim cleric, Ahmad al-Assir was arrested by Lebanese authorities as he attempted to travel into Nigeria through Cairo. According to reports, he was arrested while attempting to travel with a fake Palestinian passport with a valid Nigerian Visa‎ at the Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport on Saturday, August 15, 2015 in Lebanon. According to the official of the ministry of foreign affairs who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the ministry of foreign affairs has been directed to explain how the wan...

25-year-old John Okafor was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for being in possession of N48m cash. It was learnt that the suspect was apprehended with the money on the Abaji-Abuja Expressway on Monday by the anti-narcotic officials who were on a routine patrol. He was said to be one of the  the passengers of a commercial bus coming from Onitsha, Anambra State, when he was arrested. Okafor insisted that the money belonged to an unnamed bureau de change firm in Onitsha, that he was an employee of the firm. He said he was heading for the foreign exchange market in the Federal Capital Territory to convert the sum to dollars when he was arrested. He said: “I work for a bureau de change in Onitsha. I was asked to purchase dollars at the foreign exchange market in Abuja with the money. When we got to Abaji, our vehicle was searched and the money was found. That is all I know.” It was gathered that a drug dealer, Chukuka Ugba...

The Federal Government on Tuesday sacked the Managing Director, Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria, Mr. Mustafa Chike-Obi, in a major shakeup of the executive management team of the firm. The dissolution of the AMCON’s management team was contained in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina. Adesina said President Muhammadu Buhari also approved the reconstitution of the corporation’s management team. Chike-Obi was replaced with Ahmed Lawan Kuru as the new managing director of the corporation. The statement named Kola Ayeye, Eberechukwu Uneze and Aminu Ismail as new executive directors. Until his appointment on Tuesday as the Managing Director of AMCON, Kuru was the Group Managing Director of Enterprise Bank Limited. He started his banking career with the old Habib Bank in 1985 and rose through the ranks to become an executive director of Bank PHB (now Keys...