{"id":38385,"date":"2023-05-14T05:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38385"},"modified":"2023-05-17T05:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:09:37","slug":"fg-160-women-claiming-to-be-nigerians-in-sudan-have-no-passports-for-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/fg-160-women-claiming-to-be-nigerians-in-sudan-have-no-passports-for-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"FG: 160 women claiming to be Nigerians in Sudan have no passports for evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Claire Mom<\/p>\n<p>The federal government says 160 women claiming to be Nigerians in war-torn Sudan have no passports to fly back to the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing on Sunday, Mustapha Ahmed, director general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said the agency was being careful not to evacuate non-Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed said the women did not possess Nigerian passports to verify their citizenship claims.<\/p>\n<p>According to the director-general, some persons claimed their great-grandparents up to the fifth generation were Nigerians while they were born in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/fg-160-women-claiming-to-be-nigerians-in-sudan-have-no-passports-for-evacuation\">https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/fg-160-women-claiming-to-be-nigerians-in-sudan-have-no-passports-for-evacuation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Claire Mom The federal government says 160 women claiming to be Nigerians in war-torn Sudan have no passports to fly back to the country. In a press briefing on Sunday, Mustapha Ahmed, director general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said the agency was being careful not to evacuate non-Nigerians. Ahmed said the [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","region-sudan","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38385","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=38385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38390,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38385\/revisions\/38390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}