{"id":11953,"date":"2025-09-14T19:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:53:33","slug":"canada-rejects-1596-nigerian-asylum-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/canada-rejects-1596-nigerian-asylum-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada rejects 1596 Nigerian asylum applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canada\u00a0<\/strong>has denied 1,596 asylum claims filed by Nigerians so far in 2025, fresh data from the Immigration and Refugee Board show.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sunday PUNCH<\/em>\u00a0reports that the figures, updated to August 21, indicate that Nigerian nationals filed 3,548 claims so far this year, of which 2,292 were accepted.<\/p>\n<p>This puts the acceptance rate at about 65 per cent, higher than in previous years when rejections cumulatively amounted to over 13,000.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis by Maple Crest Law, a Canadian immigration practice, earlier estimated 3,455 Nigerian claims in early 2025, placing the country among the top sources of asylum seekers alongside Mexico, India, Haiti and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Violence from Boko Haram, combined with economic instability, fuelled the departures, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario and Alberta currently host the largest numbers of asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>The IMRB grants refugee protection in Canada if the RPD satisfactorily confirms that an applicant or claimant meets the United Nations definition of a convention refugee, \u201cwhich has been incorporated into Canadian law, or that the applicant is a person in need of protection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/canada-rejects-1596-nigerian-asylum-applications\/\" title=\"Canada rejects 1596 Nigerian asylum applications\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/247newsvibes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4397.jpeg?fit=650%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11955,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions\/11955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247newsvibes.com\/category\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}