{"id":77660,"date":"2025-10-28T22:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77660"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:11:43","slug":"us-revokes-wole-soyinkas-visa-nobel-laureate-shocked-by-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/28\/us-revokes-wole-soyinkas-visa-nobel-laureate-shocked-by-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"US Revokes Wole Soyinka\u2019s Visa, Nobel Laureate \u2018Shocked\u2019 by Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola<\/p>\n<p>Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka says the United States has revoked his visa without explanation, preventing him from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday at Kongi\u2019s Harvest Gallery, Freedom Park, Lagos, Soyinka expressed shock over the decision, saying he had no record of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no visa; I am obviously banned from the United States. If you want to see me, you know where to find me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Soyinka, the US Consulate in Lagos notified him in an October 23 letter stating that his nonimmigrant visa had been revoked under existing US regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the action remains unclear. Soyinka said he had always maintained cordial relations with US officials and had never violated any law.<\/p>\n<p>In September, he reportedly declined an invitation for a visa re-interview, initially suspecting the letter was fake or AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka\u2019s revoked B1\/B2 visa had allowed temporary travel for business and tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka says the United States has revoked his visa without explanation, preventing him from entering the country. Speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday at Kongi\u2019s Harvest Gallery, Freedom Park, Lagos, Soyinka expressed shock over the decision, saying he had no record of wrongdoing. \u201cI have no visa; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77660","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\/77660","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77662,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77660\/revisions\/77662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}