Two directors of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were on Wednesday, March 29, arrested by
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Punch reports that the directors were arrested for alleged foreign
exchange manipulation and economic sabotage. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1096641-efcc-nabs-2-cbn-directors-forex-manipulation.html
HONOLULU (Reuters) - A federal
judge in Hawaii indefinitely extended on Wednesday an order blocking
enforcement of President Donald Trump's revised ban on travel to the
United States from six predominantly Muslim countries.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson turned an earlier
temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit
brought by the state of Hawaii challenging Trump's travel directive as
unconstitutional religious discrimination. Trump signed the new ban on March 6 in a bid to overcome legal problems with a January executive order that caused chaos at airports and sparked mass protests before a Washington judge stopped its enforcement in February. Trump has said the travel ban is needed for national security.
In its challenge to the travel ban, Hawaii claims its state universities would be harmed by the order because they would have trouble recruiting students and faculty.
It also says the island state's economy would be hit by a decline in tourism. The court papers cite reports that travel to the United States "took a nosedive" after Trump's actions.
The state was joined by a new plaintiff named Ismail Elshikh, an American citizen from Egypt who is an imam at the Muslim Association of Hawaii and whose mother-in-law lives in Syria, according to the lawsuit.
Hawaii and other opponents of the ban claim that the motivation behind it is based on religion and Trump's election campaign promise of "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."
"The court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has," Watson wrote on Wednesday.
Watson wrote that his decision to grant the preliminary injunction was based on the likelihood that the state would succeed in proving that the travel ban violated the U.S. Constitution's religious freedom protection.
Trump has vowed
to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is currently split
4-4 between liberals and conservatives with the president's pick -
appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch - still awaiting confirmation.
Two directors of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were on Wednesday, March 29, arrested by
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Punch reports that the directors were arrested for alleged foreign
exchange manipulation and economic sabotage. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1096641-efcc-nabs-2-cbn-directors-forex-manipulation.html
o, NAIJ.com gathered
that the directors were still in custody as at 7.30 pm on Wednesday,
March 29.
An EFCC detective said incriminating evidence were recovered from the
houses of the directors during a search operation.
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The detective who pleaded anonymity said the activities of the directors
contributed to the dollar scarcity and the weakening of the naira
against foreign currencies.
Read more: https://www.naij.com/1096641-efcc-nabs-2-cbn-directors-forex-manipulation.html
Two directors of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were on Wednesday, March 29, arrested by
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Punch reports that the directors were arrested for alleged foreign
exchange manipulation and economic sabotage. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1096641-efcc-nabs-2-cbn-directors-forex-manipulation.html
Two directors of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were on Wednesday, March 29, arrested by
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Punch reports that the directors were arrested for alleged foreign
exchange manipulation and economic sabotage. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1096641-efcc-nabs-2-cbn-directors-forex-manipulation.html
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