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[DO NOT PUBLISH]
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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No. 11-16028
Non-Argument Calendar
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Agency No. A087-710-808
OLU EJA,
Petitioner,
versus
U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL,
Respondent.
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On Petition for Review of a Decision of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
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(February 15, 2013)
Before HULL, JORDAN and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Olu Eja, a citizen of Nigeria, seeks review of the BIA’s order denying his
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motion to reconsider. He, however, does not address the merits of the motion to
reconsider or its denial in his initial appellate brief: his brief to us instead focuses
on the BIA’s 19 August 2011 order dismissing his appeal of the immigration
judge’s (“IJ”) denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the
United Nations Convention Against torture (“CAT”). Because Eja did not timely
petition for review of the denial-of-asylum order, this Court lacks jurisdiction to
review it. We dismiss the present petition insofar as it pertains to the underlying
BIA order denying asylum and so on. Furthermore, by failing to raise in his Blue
Brief any argument on the BIA’s denial of his motion to reconsider, Eja has
abandoned his challenge to that denial. So, we deny Eja’s petition on that issue.
PETITION DENIED IN PART and DISMISSED IN PART.
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