{"id":217091,"date":"2025-12-18T02:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-us-travel-ban-stay-back-and-build-your-country-shehu-sani-advises-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:56:51","slug":"nigeria-us-travel-ban-stay-back-and-build-your-country-shehu-sani-advises-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-us-travel-ban-stay-back-and-build-your-country-shehu-sani-advises-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Us Travel Ban &#8211; Stay Back and Build Your Country &#8211; &#8211; Shehu Sani Advises Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Former lawmaker Shehu Sani has reacted to the newly announced United States travel restrictions affecting Nigerians, describing the move as a clear signal that migrants from developing countries are no longer welcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Sani shared his reaction on X on Tuesday, after the Donald Trump administration announced fresh visa restrictions on Nigerians seeking to travel to the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Under the new policy, Nigerians are barred from entering the US as immigrants or on several non-immigrant visa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512170598.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former lawmaker Shehu Sani has reacted to the newly announced United States travel restrictions affecting Nigerians, describing the move as a clear signal that migrants from developing countries are no longer welcome. Sani shared his reaction on X on Tuesday, after the Donald Trump administration announced fresh visa restrictions on Nigerians seeking to travel to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[11423,258,256,7185,6935,5042,257,4687,393,6665,20491,20490,254,9311,5123],"class_list":["post-217091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-advises","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-build","tag-country","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-sani","tag-shehu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay","tag-travel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}