{"id":80405,"date":"2025-12-17T05:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80405"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:42:16","slug":"breaking-u-s-imposes-travel-restrictions-on-nigeria-15-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/breaking-u-s-imposes-travel-restrictions-on-nigeria-15-others\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: U.S. Imposes Travel Restrictions on Nigeria, 15 Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a new proclamation expanding travel restrictions, placing Nigeria and at least 15 other countries on a list facing partial or full entry limitations into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Under the updated policy, Nigeria, alongside countries such as Tanzania and Zambia, will be subject to restrictions affecting visa issuance and entry for certain categories of travellers.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamation also imposes full entry bans on citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria, while restricting travel for holders of documents issued by the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials said the measures were taken over security concerns, including unreliable travel documentation, high visa overstay rates and limited cooperation on immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The latest action builds on earlier expansions of the travel restrictions announced in mid-2025 and is expected to draw diplomatic reactions from affected countries.<\/p>\n<p>Official responses from Nigeria and other nations were still awaited at press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a new proclamation expanding travel restrictions, placing Nigeria and at least 15 other countries on a list facing partial or full entry limitations into the United States. Under the updated policy, Nigeria, alongside countries such as Tanzania and Zambia, will be subject to restrictions affecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80405","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=80405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80407,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80405\/revisions\/80407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}