{"id":169085,"date":"2025-07-11T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:33:28","slug":"we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t want Venezuelan prisoners in Nigeria \u2013 Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Shehu Sani, former Senator who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the previous Assembly, has vehemently rejected the move by the United States to impose Venezuelan deportees on Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, on Thursday disclosed that the US has been mounting pressure on Nigeria and other African countries to accept Venezuelan deportees.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, the minister disclosed that Nigeria may not be able to accept the prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Shehu Sani, in a post on his official X handle, said the Nigerian government must not create space for the prisoners either now or in the future.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the US is free to send Nigerian prisoners in the country back home, but not Venezuelan nationals.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cIf the US wants to send Nigerian prisoners in US Jails back to Nigeria, that is ok and should be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want Venezuelan prisoners in our country and there should be no space for them now or in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Shehu Sani, former Senator who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the previous Assembly, has vehemently rejected the move by the United States to impose Venezuelan deportees on Nigeria. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, on Thursday disclosed that the US has been mounting pressure on Nigeria and other African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,195],"class_list":["post-169085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-shehu-sani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We don\u2019t want Venezuelan prisoners in Nigeria \u2013 Shehu Sani - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shehu Sani, former Senator who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the previous Assembly, has vehement ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We don\u2019t want Venezuelan prisoners in Nigeria \u2013 Shehu Sani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shehu Sani, former Senator who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the previous Assembly, has vehement ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-11T10:11:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-11T11:33:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752221125.483769.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1043\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"We don\u2019t want Venezuelan prisoners in Nigeria \u2013 Shehu Sani\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-11T10:11:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-11T11:33:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752221125.483769.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Shehu sani\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/we-dont-want-venezuelan-prisoners-in-nigeria-shehu-sani\",\"name\":\"We don\u2019t want Venezuelan prisoners in Nigeria \u2013 Shehu Sani - 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