{"id":4689,"date":"2025-02-13T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2025-02-13T21:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:24:59","slug":"4689","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/4689\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman joins IPOB, gets UK asylum after\u00a0 8 previous failed attempts \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/uk-visa.jpe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4690\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/uk-visa.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UK visa<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Amah<br \/>\nKindly share:A Nigerian woman who had been denied asylum in the United Kingdom for eight times has eventually got her wish granted after she joined the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The\u00a0 unnamed middle-aged woman woman became involved with IPOB \u201cto create a claim for asylum\u201d, a judge said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The woman came to the UK in 2011 and joined IPOB in 2017. Recall that\u00a0IPOB is labelled a terrorist organisation by Nigeria, but not the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Gemma Loughran, the UK upper tribunal judge, ruled\u00a0that because the woman was part of IPOB, she has a \u2018well-founded fear of persecution\u2019 in her home country, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>However, Shadow home secretary Chris Philip, slammed the decision to grant asylum. He said it was a \u201ccomically ludicrous\u201d interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian woman had said she was worried about being arrested at the airport and \u201cdisappeared\u201d if she returned to her country.<\/p>\n<p>A lower tribunal judge originally rejected her claim because of lack of evidence about her activities within the group.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Iain Burnett ruled that the woman joined IPOB purely \u201cin order to create a claim for asylum\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the upper tribunal judge overturned the decision, saying it was likely the woman would be identified as an activist upon her return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear from the country background evidence that the security services act arbitrarily and arrest, harm and detain those it believes may be involved with IPOB without conducting an assessment of the extent of their involvement or their motivation, \u201d\u00a0 the judge held.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK visa By Amah Kindly share:A Nigerian woman who had been denied asylum in the United Kingdom for eight times&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[740,1151],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-independent-people-of-biafra","tag-uk-visa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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