{"id":77874,"date":"2025-11-02T04:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77874"},"modified":"2025-11-02T04:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:27:21","slug":"trump-threatens-military-action-over-alleged-christian-persecution-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/02\/trump-threatens-military-action-over-alleged-christian-persecution-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens Military Action Over Alleged &#8216;Christian Persecution&#8217; in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened military action against Nigeria, accusing the government of failing to stop what he described as the persecution of Christians.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his social media platform, Trump said he had instructed the Pentagon to prepare for possible intervention, warning that Washington would \u201cimmediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria\u201d if the alleged killings continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will stop all aid and may very well go into that now disgraced country, \u2018guns-a-blazing,\u2019 to wipe out the Islamic terrorists committing these atrocities,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu rejected Trump\u2019s earlier designation of Nigeria as a \u201ccountry of particular concern,\u201d describing it as inaccurate and unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious freedom and tolerance remain core to our national identity,\u201d Tinubu said in a statement on Saturday, stressing that Nigeria protects the rights of all faiths.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, maintained that Christianity faces an \u201cexistential threat\u201d in Nigeria, blaming \u201cradical Islamists\u201d for the violence.<\/p>\n<p>His comments followed U.S. Senator Ted Cruz\u2019s recent call for Congress to classify Nigeria as a violator of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday, the U.S. Department of Defense had not issued any statement on Trump\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>However, his warning marks one of the most aggressive statements yet by a former American president regarding Nigeria\u2019s religious tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened military action against Nigeria, accusing the government of failing to stop what he described as the persecution of Christians. In a post on his social media platform, Trump said he had instructed the Pentagon to prepare for possible intervention, warning that Washington would \u201cimmediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1754,172,249],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-foreign-news","category-news","category-world-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77874","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=77874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77876,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77874\/revisions\/77876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}