{"id":61215,"date":"2025-02-14T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61215"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:26:24","slug":"visa-denial-interior-minister-slams-canada-for-disrespecting-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/visa-denial-interior-minister-slams-canada-for-disrespecting-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Minister Slams Canada for \u2018Disrespecting\u2019 Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has criticized the Canadian High Commission for denying a visa to Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, calling it disrespectful to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Sunrise Daily on Friday, Tunji-Ojo questioned Canada\u2019s decision, warning that if such treatment could be meted out to the CDS, ordinary Nigerians may face worse.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for a review of Nigeria\u2019s visa reciprocity policies.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy follows Musa\u2019s revelation that he and other military officers were denied visas for an official visit.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, had earlier condemned Canada\u2019s action, stating the country could \u201cgo to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has criticized the Canadian High Commission for denying a visa to Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, calling it disrespectful to the country. Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Sunrise Daily on Friday, Tunji-Ojo questioned Canada\u2019s decision, warning that if such treatment could be meted out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61218,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61215\/revisions\/61218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}