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 Nigerians and other African nationals numbering about 200 blocked the National Highway 17 on the outskirts of Goa capital in India today in protest of the death of a yet-to-be identified Nigerian. According to reports, the incident happened when a gang descended at Parra where many Nigerians stay - in four and two wheeler vehicles and attacked a small grouping of Nigerians with weapons.

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A number of the Nigerians were on bikes when they were attacked. One was hit with a dagger severally that he breathed his last, while five others were injured in the attack before the assailants fled from the scene.

Other Nigerians, who rushed to the location on hearing in regards to the ghastly murder, refused law enforcement to take your body for post mortem demanding that the assailtants be arrested first.  

“The body was being taken fully to the Goa Medical College morgue in an ambulance when a mob of Africans stopped it and pulled the corpse out at Porvorim,” a police official said. 

After removing the body from the van, the protesters dropped the corpse traveling demanding justice to be done – this generated huge traffic jam on the outskirts of the Goa capital. Meanwhile, as the situation turned volatile, two companies of police personnel were rushed to the location and a number of the protesters were arrested.

US Senator Ted Cruz has asked for a peace meeting with Nigerian-Americans who have demanded that he retracts his controversial  joke last week which many of them considered insulting. In a letter from the Senator to leaders of the Nigerian community in Houston, Texas, where the controversial
comments were made, the Senator said he “regrets any misunderstanding.”

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The letter was signed by one of the aides of the Senator, Mr. David Sawyer, the South-East Texas Regional Director in his office. Sawyer, in another correspondence, also requested for a peace meeting between Senator Cruz and representatives of the Nigerian community in Houston.

Senator Cruz has been bombarded with several phone calls from Nigerians in Houston and all across the US since last Monday October 21 comments, Sawyer added.  A copy of the letter of apology was gotten from Empowered Newswire by our correspondent.

The statement read: "Earlier this week Sen. Ted Cruz made a joke in which he used the term "Nigerian email scam." Senator Cruz regrets that "it is unfortunate that we're living in a time where just about every joke can be misconstrued to cause offense to someone.  “Sen. Cruz has never, nor would ever use a blanket term in a derogatory fashion against such a vibrant and integral part of our community. This usage was never directed to the Nigerian community as a whole.

"To the good people of Nigeria - a beautiful nation where my wife lived briefly as the child of missionaries - no offense was intended. “I am fully appreciative of the range of mutual economic and security interests that make Nigeria an important friend to the United States," Senator Cruz said in the statement.

The letter was printed on Ted Cruz official US Congress paper and was dated Friday October 25. The Nigerian embassy in the US has also made a formal complaint to the senator about his comments.

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Business activities were, Saturday, paralyzed at the Akanu-Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, although temporarily, as hundreds of Igbo youths, beneath the aegis of Igbo Progressive Union (IPU), embarked on a peaceful protest against the calls for the sack of Oduah on the controversial armoured cars.

The kinsmen of the embattled minister from Ogbaru local government part of Anambra State, led by High
Chief George Nwabueze, also exonerated her from any wrong doing in the purchase of the cars. Nwabueze said that the prospective of those calling for the top of Oduah was President Goodluck Jonathan whose second term ambition in 2015 they've vowed to avoid by all means.

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The protesting young men and women, who carried placards with various inscriptions, accused an unnamed personality of being behind the calls for the removal of the minister, insisting that the intention was to avoid Oduah from going ahead with her transformation agenda in the aviation sector.

The group, who spoke through their leader, Emeka Agbo, a student of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, said Igbo youths were ready to go the complete hog in ensuring that their daughter was protected, expressing dismay that some highly placed individuals were determined to rubbish the achievements of the minister.