{"id":194579,"date":"2026-02-12T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:34:30","slug":"us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Sanctions Kwankwaso Not Linked to Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A legal practitioner, Ekemini Udim, has expressed shocked about allegations linking a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabi\u2019u Kwankwaso, to terrorism financing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019 on Thursday, Udim said he had not heard Kwankwaso\u2019s name being linked to terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Kwankwaso has been targeted for sanctions by a legislation introduced by the US Congress, over his alleged role in promulgating the Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the legal practitioner said, \u201cI\u2019m surprised to see Rabiu Kwankwaso\u2019s name in that list. I think the US needs to give us more clarifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not really heard his name being bandied around terrorism, but maybe America has better information than Nigeria has not had over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe the US is able to monitor activities of the former governor and minister and they now think there\u2019s need to make it clearer for all of us in Nigeria to understand.\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. A legal practitioner, Ekemini Udim, has expressed shocked about allegations linking a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabi\u2019u Kwankwaso, to terrorism financing. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019 on Thursday, Udim said he had not heard Kwankwaso\u2019s name being linked to terrorism. DAILY POST reports that Kwankwaso has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":194578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-194579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"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>US Congress Sanctions Kwankwaso Not Linked to Terrorism - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A legal practitioner, Ekemini Udim, has expressed shocked about allegations linking a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peop ...\" \/>\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\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Congress Sanctions Kwankwaso Not Linked to Terrorism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A legal practitioner, Ekemini Udim, has expressed shocked about allegations linking a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peop ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-12T11:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-12T12:34:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770899599.876564.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"US Congress Sanctions Kwankwaso Not Linked to Terrorism\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-12T11:25:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-12T12:34:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism\"},\"wordCount\":181,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770899599.876564.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-congress-sanctions-kwankwaso-not-linked-to-terrorism\",\"name\":\"US Congress Sanctions Kwankwaso Not Linked to Terrorism - 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