{"id":58555,"date":"2024-12-27T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58555"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:10:45","slug":"ecowas-defends-nigeria-against-nigers-terrorism-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/27\/ecowas-defends-nigeria-against-nigers-terrorism-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS Defends Nigeria Against Niger&#8217;s Terrorism Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has dismissed recent terrorism allegations against Nigeria by Niger Republic as &#8220;unfounded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The accusations, made by Niger&#8217;s military leader, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, claim Nigeria and other ECOWAS members are colluding with France to destabilize Niger.<\/p>\n<p>Responding on Thursday, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, strongly denied the claims, stating they \u201cexist solely in the realm of imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that Nigeria has no alliance, overt or covert, with France or any other nation to destabilize Niger.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, ECOWAS expressed solidarity with Nigeria, lauding the country\u2019s historic commitment to peace and security in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>It highlighted Nigeria\u2019s leadership of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), and its contributions to combating regional threats.<\/p>\n<p>ECOWAS firmly rejected the notion of Nigeria as a state sponsor of terrorism, describing the allegation as inconsistent with its role in regional stability.<\/p>\n<p>The organization urged regional actors to prioritize dialogue and avoid baseless accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has dismissed recent terrorism allegations against Nigeria by Niger Republic as &#8220;unfounded.&#8221; The accusations, made by Niger&#8217;s military leader, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, claim Nigeria and other ECOWAS members are colluding with France to destabilize Niger. Responding on Thursday, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Information and National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58557,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555\/revisions\/58557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}