{"id":223867,"date":"2026-02-15T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amid-kano-governments-silence-deputy-governor-tells-us-to-remove-kwankwaso-from-sanction-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:19:52","slug":"nigeria-amid-kano-governments-silence-deputy-governor-tells-us-to-remove-kwankwaso-from-sanction-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amid-kano-governments-silence-deputy-governor-tells-us-to-remove-kwankwaso-from-sanction-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Amid Kano Government&#8217;s Silence, Deputy Governor Tells Us to Remove Kwankwaso From Sanction Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The deputy governor of Kano State, Aminu Gwarzo, has called on the United States Congress to expunge the name of former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso from proposed sanctions in a bill targeting alleged violators of religious freedom in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The bill, titled &#8216;The Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026&#8217;, was sponsored by US Representatives Riley Moore and Chris Smith. It sought to impose sanctions on individuals and groups accused of religious persecution, including some Fulani&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130367.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>The deputy governor of Kano State, Aminu Gwarzo, has called on the United States Congress to expunge the name of former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso from proposed sanctions in a bill targeting alleged violators of religious freedom in Nigeria. The bill, titled &#8216;The Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026&#8217;, was sponsored by US Representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223868,"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":[258,256,7292,6012,6201,4269,694,18688,257,4687,393,11893,2540,6992,254,7036],"class_list":["post-223867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-deputy","tag-governments","tag-governor","tag-kano","tag-kwankwaso","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-remove","tag-sanction","tag-silence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells"],"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\/223867","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=223867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}