“Breaking News: Trump has imposed a ban preventing all Nigerian politicians from visiting the U.S. for any reason,” reads a Facebook post published on January 22, 2025.
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Screenshot showing the false post, taken January 29, 2024
Attached to the post are photos of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and Trump.
The rest of the post claims Trump has also frozen “Nigerian international bank accounts” and ordered the deportation of two million Nigerians from the United States.
The post was shared by an India-based account called “Ipob North Delhi”. IPOB – Indigenous People of Biafra in full – is a group pushing for the independence of Nigeria’s southeast region, where a bloody civil war was fought in the late 1960s.
IPOB supporters are openly critical of the Nigerian government. A review of the account shows most of the content is pro-IPOB and disparaging toward the Nigerian state and specifically the country’s army.
Several other Facebook accounts (see here, here and here) shared the same claim.
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