{"id":74696,"date":"2025-04-23T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74696"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:20:15","slug":"niger-gov-makes-a-u-turn-on-dreadlocks-ban-following-public-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/niger-gov-makes-a-u-turn-on-dreadlocks-ban-following-public-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger gov makes a u-turn on dreadlocks ban following public outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th?id=OVFT.YCG7jNEsVkJtLXPakWlpFC&amp;pid=News&amp;w=300&amp;h=186&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.2\" width=\"418\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Niger State Governor, Umar Bago, has reversed his controversial directive ordering the arrest of individuals with dreadlocks, following widespread backlash from the public and civil rights advocates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/politics\/government\/niger-gov-makes-a-u-turn-on-dreadlocks-ban-following-public-outcry\/ar-AA1Dtr1T?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Niger State Governor, Umar Bago, has reversed his controversial directive ordering the arrest of individuals with dreadlocks, following widespread backlash from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Umar-Bago.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74698,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696\/revisions\/74698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}