{"id":78072,"date":"2025-11-04T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78072"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:00:44","slug":"nis-denies-seizing-natashas-passport-calls-it-routine-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/nis-denies-seizing-natashas-passport-calls-it-routine-check\/","title":{"rendered":"NIS Denies Seizing Natasha\u2019s Passport, Calls It Routine Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has denied seizing the international passport of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing the incident as a routine airport clearance.<\/p>\n<p>A senior NIS official said the Senator was neither detained nor harassed, explaining that her passport was only taken briefly for standard verification.<\/p>\n<p>NIS spokesperson ACI Akinsola Akinlabi said he was away from Abuja but would look into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification followed Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s claim during a Facebook Live session that immigration officers acted on the orders of Senate President Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p>Her passport was later returned during the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has denied seizing the international passport of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing the incident as a routine airport clearance. A senior NIS official said the Senator was neither detained nor harassed, explaining that her passport was only taken briefly for standard verification. NIS spokesperson ACI Akinsola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78072","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78074,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78072\/revisions\/78074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}