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Nigerian judge rejects US extradition request for suspended police chief

Samara Baboolal | U. Nottingham School of Law, GB

August 31, 2022 09:20:48 am

A Nigerian judge rejected a request from the Nigerian Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami the for the extradition of suspended deputy commissioner of police Abba Kyari. Malami requested Kyari be extradited to the US to face fraud charges in connection with Ramon Olorunwa Abbas’ international crime scheme. Justice Inyang [...]

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Putin decree introduces financial benefits for Ukrainian migrants who fled to Russia

Samara Baboolal | U. Nottingham School of Law, GB

August 28, 2022 07:27:34 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday signed a decree granting monthly benefits to migrants who fled Ukraine and entered Russian territory. The decree extends monthly payments of 10,000 rubles ($166) to disabled people, people over the age of 80, and pregnant women who entered Russia from Ukrainian territory as well as the disputed Donbas region. The [...]

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed Immigration and Nationality Act into law, ending country quotas

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, standing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, signed into law the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The Act ordered the elimination of the national origins quota system established in 1882 in favor of a worldwide quota blind to national origin. Immigration was redistributed by pooling unused quotas and making them available on a first-come, first-served basis to oversubscribed nations. Learn more about the 1965 Act and its aftermath.

Germany reunified

On October 3, 1990, the German Democratic Republic was absorbed by the Federal Republic of Germany, reunifying the country for the first time since the Second World War. Today, the event is marked annually by German Unity Day. Read the Unification Treaty, signed in Berlin on August 31, 1990.