{"id":849547,"date":"2025-05-19T22:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/if-you-have-any-business-and-you-have-dreadlocks-please-come-to-niger-state-governor-bago-says-he-was-misunderstood\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:12:30","slug":"if-you-have-any-business-and-you-have-dreadlocks-please-come-to-niger-state-governor-bago-says-he-was-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/if-you-have-any-business-and-you-have-dreadlocks-please-come-to-niger-state-governor-bago-says-he-was-misunderstood\/","title":{"rendered":"If you have any business and you have dreadlocks, please come to Niger State \u2013 Governor Bago says he was misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div role=\"main\" id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"the-post\">\n<div>\n<figure><img width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-44-780x470.png\" alt=\"If you have any business and you have dreadlocks, please come to Niger State - Governor Bago says he was misunderstood 1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"If you have any business and you have dreadlocks, please come to Niger State - Governor Bago says he was misunderstood 1\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Governor Umar Bago of Niger State has rescinded his earlier directive targeting individuals with dreadlocks in Minna, following widespread public outcry.<\/p>\n<p>During a stakeholders\u2019 security meeting on Tuesday, April 22, Bago had ordered the arrest, forced haircut, and fining of residents wearing what he called \u201cunacceptable haircuts,\u201d including dreadlocks<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody that you find with dreadlocks, arrest, barb the hair, and fine the person. Nobody should carry any kind of haircut inside Minna. I have given marching orders to security agencies,\u201d the governor had said.<\/p>\n<p>He instructed security agencies to act immediately, sparking sharp criticism from civil society organizations, human rights groups, and the general public, who decried the move as a violation of personal rights.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the backlash, the governor addressed the controversy on Wednesday, April 23, clarifying that his comments were not aimed at law-abiding citizens with dreadlocks. He explained that the directive was intended to target individuals allegedly involved in cult-related activities who were using dreadlocks as a cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday we read a riot act on hooliganism and people misunderstood our words for people who have dreadlocks,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a problem with dreadlocks but we have a problem with the cult here with dreadlocks. So if you have any business and you have dreadlocks, please come to Niger State. All that is media propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2025\/04\/24\/if-you-have-any-business-and-you-have-dreadlocks-please-come-to-niger-state-governor-bago-says-he-was-misunderstood\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Umar Bago of Niger State has rescinded his earlier directive targeting individuals with dreadlocks in Minna, following widespread public outcry. During a stakeholders\u2019 security meeting on Tuesday, April 22, Bago had ordered the arrest, forced haircut, and fining of residents wearing what he called \u201cunacceptable haircuts,\u201d including dreadlocks \u201cAnybody that you find with dreadlocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,144018],"tags":[8652,144017],"class_list":{"0":"post-849547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-dreadlocks","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dreadlocks"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}