{"id":71107,"date":"2025-07-21T05:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71107"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:29:47","slug":"kemi-badenoch-vows-to-make-it-tougher-for-nigerians-to-get-british-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/21\/kemi-badenoch-vows-to-make-it-tougher-for-nigerians-to-get-british-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch Vows to Make it Tougher for Nigerians to Get British Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch says she will make it more difficult for Nigerians to acquire British citizenship if elected Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Badenoch criticized what she described as the ease with which Nigerians gain UK citizenship, calling it \u201cnaive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoads of Nigerians come to the UK and stay for a relatively free period of time, acquiring British citizenship. It has been too easy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also rejected the idea of immigrants creating \u201cmini-Nigerias\u201d in the UK, stating, \u201cThat is not right. Nigerians would not tolerate that in their own country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in the UK to Nigerian parents, Badenoch has sparked controversy with recent comments about her country of heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch says she will make it more difficult for Nigerians to acquire British citizenship if elected Prime Minister. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Badenoch criticized what she described as the ease with which Nigerians gain UK citizenship, calling it \u201cnaive.\u201d \u201cLoads of Nigerians come to the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71107","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\/71107","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=71107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71109,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107\/revisions\/71109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}