{"id":854038,"date":"2025-06-07T19:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/chinese-embassy-sets-record-straight-on-nigerian-athletes-visa-delay\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:11:53","slug":"chinese-embassy-sets-record-straight-on-nigerian-athletes-visa-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/chinese-embassy-sets-record-straight-on-nigerian-athletes-visa-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Embassy sets record straight on Nigerian athletes\u2019 visa delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of China in Nigeria has refuted media reports issued by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), which alleged that Nigerian athletes were unable to participate in the Guangzhou World Athletics Relays due to visa issues. The Embassy made the clarification in a statement released on Saturday in Abuja&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nigeriannewsdirect.com\/chinese-embassy-sets-record-straight-on-nigerian-athletes-visa-delay\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n NewsDirect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of China in Nigeria has refuted media reports issued by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), which alleged that Nigerian athletes were unable to participate in the Guangzhou World Athletics Relays due to visa issues. The Embassy made the clarification in a statement released on Saturday in Abuja&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[933,28660,192],"tags":[6623,66311],"class_list":{"0":"post-854038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chinese","8":"category-embassy","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-chinese","11":"tag-embassy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854038","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=854038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}