{"id":218445,"date":"2025-12-29T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-immigration-gives-foreign-nationals-deadline-to-regularise-stay-before-amnesty-ends\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:24:56","slug":"nigerian-immigration-gives-foreign-nationals-deadline-to-regularise-stay-before-amnesty-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-immigration-gives-foreign-nationals-deadline-to-regularise-stay-before-amnesty-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Immigration Gives Foreign Nationals Deadline to Regularise Stay Before Amnesty Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Minna \u2014 The Niger State Comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Maduka Hope, has directed all foreign nationals residing in the state to regularise their stay before the general amnesty window closes at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Hope gave the directive after a meeting with leaders of Nigerien nationals in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He explained that the engagement forms part of a broader initiative by the Comptroller-General of Immigration to strengthen border security and improve migration&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290232.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>Minna \u2014 The Niger State Comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Maduka Hope, has directed all foreign nationals residing in the state to regularise their stay before the general amnesty window closes at the end of the month. Hope gave the directive after a meeting with leaders of Nigerien nationals in the state. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218446,"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":[258,256,3023,9451,7933,5169,9333,16316,257,393,482,30617,254,9311],"class_list":["post-218445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty","tag-deadline","tag-ends","tag-foreign","tag-immigration","tag-nationals","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-regularise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay"],"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\/218445","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=218445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}