{"id":22407,"date":"2019-04-17T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22407"},"modified":"2019-04-19T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:58:04","slug":"nigeria-senate-rejects-bill-seeking-to-allow-persons-of-african-origin-to-acquire-nigerian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigeria-senate-rejects-bill-seeking-to-allow-persons-of-african-origin-to-acquire-nigerian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Senate Rejects Bill Seeking To Allow Persons Of African Origin To Acquire Nigerian Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday vehemently rejected a bill seeking to amend the Constitution to allow persons of African origin acquire Nigerian citizenship .<\/p>\n<p>The bill sponsored by Senator Ben Murray-Bruce aims at re-integrating and developing the African region.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers, who contributed to the debate on the bill, believed it is unnecessary and injurious to Nigeria\u2019s already fragile economy<\/p>\n<p>Murray-Bruce\u2019s effort to further convince his colleagues proved abortive.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/plustvafrica.com\/news\/senate-rejects-bill-seeking-to-allow-persons-of-african-origin-to-acquire-nigerian-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/plustvafrica.com\/news\/senate-rejects-bill-seeking-to-allow-persons-of-african-origin-to-acquire-nigerian-citizenship\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawmakers in the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday vehemently rejected a bill seeking to amend the Constitution to allow persons of African origin acquire Nigerian citizenship . The bill sponsored by Senator Ben Murray-Bruce aims at re-integrating and developing the African region. Lawmakers, who contributed to the debate on the bill, believed it is unnecessary and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407","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=22407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22408,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions\/22408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}