{"id":13180,"date":"2017-05-17T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=13180"},"modified":"2017-05-19T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:05:49","slug":"nigeria-govt-grants-oshiomholes-wife-334-foreigners-nigerian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigeria-govt-grants-oshiomholes-wife-334-foreigners-nigerian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Govt Grants Oshiomhole&#8217;s Wife, 334 Foreigners Nigerian Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Kanayo Umeh<\/cite><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Abuja \u2014 The Federal Government has granted 335 foreign nationals citizenship after statutory clearance and due diligence by the relevant security agencies.\u200e<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">\u200eThe Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd),\u200e who presented the certificates of citizenship to the foreigners yesterday in Abuja, charged them to be good ambassadors of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Iara Oshiomhole, wife of former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole,\u200e who is from Cape Verde, is one of the recipients. Dambazau said that the 335 applications were approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in January, out of the over 500 foreigners who applied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">He explained that 245 of them were granted citizenship by\u200e naturalisation while 90 foreign women who are married to Nigerians were by registration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201705170805.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AllAfrica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kanayo Umeh Abuja \u2014 The Federal Government has granted 335 foreign nationals citizenship after statutory clearance and due diligence by the relevant security agencies.\u200e \u200eThe Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd),\u200e who presented the certificates of citizenship to the foreigners yesterday in Abuja, charged them to be good ambassadors of the country. Iara [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13181,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions\/13181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}