{"id":38183,"date":"2023-04-19T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38183"},"modified":"2023-05-23T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T09:10:39","slug":"nigeria-grants-citizenship-to-385-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigeria-grants-citizenship-to-385-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Grants Citizenship To 385 Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header-inner\">\n<div class=\"post-header-title\">Timothy Choji, Abuja<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>The Nigerian government has granted citizenship to 385 foreign nationals residing in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola disclosed this on Wednesday to State House Correspondents, at the end of this week\u2019s meeting of the Federal Executive Council, presided over by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.<\/p>\n<p>He said the council approved 317 of the applicants were granted citizenship by naturalization while 68 were granted by registration, adding that all the applicants met the requirements for such an honour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal Executive Council at its meeting today approved the granting of Nigeria\u2019s citizenship by naturalization to 317 applicants and Nigeria\u2019s citizenship by registration to 68 applicants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose granted citizenship have met all the constitutional and administrative requirements for the grant of Nigerian citizenship,\u201d Aregbesola explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/von.gov.ng\/nigeria-grants-citizenship-to-385-foreigners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/von.gov.ng\/nigeria-grants-citizenship-to-385-foreigners\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy Choji, Abuja The Nigerian government has granted citizenship to 385 foreign nationals residing in the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola disclosed this on Wednesday to State House Correspondents, at the end of this week\u2019s meeting of the Federal Executive Council, presided over by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. He said the council approved [&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-38183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183","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=38183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38544,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions\/38544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}