{"id":37467,"date":"2023-01-23T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=37467"},"modified":"2023-01-24T19:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:55:40","slug":"nigerian-government-inaugurates-high-level-steering-committee-to-eradicate-statelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigerian-government-inaugurates-high-level-steering-committee-to-eradicate-statelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian government inaugurates high-level steering committee to eradicate statelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a High-Level Steering Committee (HLSC) for the eradication of statelessness in Nigeria and to kickstart the implementation of its five-key priority activities.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Interior, Mr. Afonja Ajibola, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Committee, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known at the inaugural meeting of the HLSC in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The minister defined statelessness as an emerging global phenomenon in which a person is not considered or recognised as a national by any nation or state under the operation of its laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIt is a human right and it\u2019s also a developmental, peace and security issue which affects the dignity of vulnerable persons.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIt strips the affected person of his or her human rights and portrays stateless persons as worthless.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThis violates the non-discriminatory provision of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/von.gov.ng\/nigerian-government-inaugurates-high-level-steering-committee-to-eradicate-statelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/von.gov.ng\/nigerian-government-inaugurates-high-level-steering-committee-to-eradicate-statelessness\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a High-Level Steering Committee (HLSC) for the eradication of statelessness in Nigeria and to kickstart the implementation of its five-key priority activities. The Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Interior, Mr. Afonja Ajibola, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja. According to [&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-37467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467","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=37467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37470,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions\/37470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}