{"id":61220,"date":"2025-02-14T12:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61220"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:34:51","slug":"fani-kayode-backs-ribadu-blasts-canada-over-visa-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/fani-kayode-backs-ribadu-blasts-canada-over-visa-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Fani-Kayode Backs Ribadu, Blasts Canada Over Visa Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Femi Fani-Kayode has thrown his support behind National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu over his outburst against Canada following the visa denial of Nigeria\u2019s military chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Fani-Kayode praised Ribadu for standing up to foreign nations that &#8220;treat Nigerians with contempt,&#8221; calling Canada\u2019s action disrespectful.<\/p>\n<p>He declared that Nigeria \u201chas paid her dues and must be treated with respect,\u201d adding that the days of foreign governments \u201ckicking us in the teeth\u201d are over.<\/p>\n<p>Ribadu had earlier condemned the Canadian Embassy for denying visas to the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, and other top officers, stating that Canada could \u201cgo to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Femi Fani-Kayode has thrown his support behind National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu over his outburst against Canada following the visa denial of Nigeria\u2019s military chiefs. In a post on X, Fani-Kayode praised Ribadu for standing up to foreign nations that &#8220;treat Nigerians with contempt,&#8221; calling Canada\u2019s action disrespectful. He declared that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61220","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=61220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61222,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61220\/revisions\/61222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}