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Reaching Out to Refugees Longtime journalist Richard Chacón now leads government efforts to help refugees and immigrants acclimate to life in Massachusetts. By Corinne Steinbrenner (COM’06) Each year, roughly 75,000 refugees enter the United States, and more than 2,000 of them begin their new lives in Massachusetts. As director of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, Richard Chacón (CGS’86, COM’88) is charged with helping those refugees settle as quickly and comfortably as possible into their new communities. It’s a job for which Chacón—who has been crossing bord...

ON THE GO Tuberculosis kills ‘over 162,000’ Nigerians annually The Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS) says tuberculosis kills over 162, 000 people in the country annually.Advertisement Prince Ele, president of NTS, said no fewer than 430, 000 people fall ill... FIFA issues Blatter with second ban for six years Sepp Blatter, former FIFA president, has been handed a fresh six years and eight months ban from all football activities.Advertisement The football world governing body broke the news in a... ‘Airlines only exempted from import duty, VAT’ — Customs tackles Air P...

Read The Remaining Part Of This Article On www.guardian.ng By Okachikwu Dibia Listen to article For over one year now, the quotation above has become a “new normal” on some pages of our beloved newspaper, The Guardian in Nigeria. It suddenly appeared without a fore notification to its coming, just like the wild surprise I got reading from my age-long revered Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed in The Guardian. The Guardian has been my first choice newspaper reading since 1984 when I was an advanced level student at the then Rivers State School of Basic Studies, now Captain Elechi Am...