{"id":190119,"date":"2020-02-01T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190119"},"modified":"2020-02-01T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:09:36","slug":"nigeria-immigration-nabs-5-stowaway-inside-vessel-enroute-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190119","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Immigration nabs 5 stowaway inside vessel enroute to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Lagos Seaport Command, has arrested five stowaway aboard a vessel enroute Las Palmas, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>NIS spokesman, Sunday James, said this in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the report was made by the master of the vessel about 156 nautical miles off Lagos shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>The Comptroller of the Command, Olubushola Fashakin, who received the arrested stowaway, cautioned desperate youths from \u201cembarking on \u201crisky adventures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede, hailed the officers and the Comptroller for the arrest job.<\/p>\n<p>He called for a halt to \u201cunwarranted travels by all means\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Immigration Service says the new Nigerian Visa Policy (NVP), aimed at expanding visa classes from 6 to 79, is in prospect and awaiting President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>NIS explained that the current type of Visa classes, which are Transit, Tourist, Business, Subject to Regularisation (STR), Temporary Work Permit (TWP) and Diplomatic, was limiting.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Lagos Seaport Command, has arrested five stowaway aboard a vessel enroute Las Palmas, Spain. NIS spokesman, Sunday James, said this in a statement on Saturday. He disclosed that the report was made by the master of the vessel about 156 nautical miles off Lagos shoreline. The Comptroller of the Command, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,12792,14166],"class_list":["post-190119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-immigration","tag-stowaway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}