{"id":76042,"date":"2025-06-04T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76042"},"modified":"2025-06-04T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:04:11","slug":"home-office-accused-of-racist-crackdown-on-nigerians-after-denial-of-visit-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/home-office-accused-of-racist-crackdown-on-nigerians-after-denial-of-visit-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office accused of \u2018racist crackdown\u2019 on Nigerians after denial of visit visa"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1G3bk8.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=98&amp;y=240&amp;s=865&amp;d=575\" alt=\"Samuel Onyekachi Ibeawuchi (right) runs BKay Security Ltd, which provides protection for high-profile people in Nigeria and abroad. Photograph: supplied\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Home Office has been accused of a \u201cracist crackdown on Nigerians\u201d after refusing a visa to a man who runs one of the west African country\u2019s top security firms for a holiday to see his family. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/home-office-accused-of-racist-crackdown-on-nigerians-after-denial-of-visit-visa\/ar-AA1G341R?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5e5cc5698c85446a9fe772f1d1cd5a94&amp;ei=51\">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>The Home Office has been accused of a \u201cracist crackdown on Nigerians\u201d after refusing a visa to a man who runs one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ibekwechi-family.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76042","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=76042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76044,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76042\/revisions\/76044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}