{"id":18201,"date":"2024-02-02T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18201"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:01:14","slug":"breaking-us-confirms-significant-arms-sale-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/02\/breaking-us-confirms-significant-arms-sale-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: US Confirms Significant Arms Sale To Nigeria \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white; font-weight: normal;\">The United States Department of Defense has confirmed a significant arms sale to Nigeria, involving 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, to bolster the West African nation\u2019s military capabilities. \u00a0 <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white; font-weight: normal;\">The contract, valued at $1 billion, includes not only the state-of-the-art helicopters but also 32<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #0f1419; background: white; font-weight: normal;\">mission computers provided by Northrop Grumman, with a separate contract valued at $7.7 million awarded in December.<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Defense has confirmed a significant arms sale to Nigeria, involving 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, to bolster the West African nation\u2019s military capabilities. \u00a0 The contract, valued at $1 billion, includes not only the state-of-the-art helicopters but also 32 mission computers provided by Northrop Grumman, with a separate contract valued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,182],"tags":[634],"class_list":["post-18201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-defence-and-security","tag-us-department-of-defence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18212,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201\/revisions\/18212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}