{"id":77893,"date":"2025-11-02T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77893"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:02:12","slug":"nicki-minaj-applauds-trump-over-nigerias-religious-persecution-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/02\/nicki-minaj-applauds-trump-over-nigerias-religious-persecution-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Applauds Trump Over Nigeria\u2019s Religious Persecution Designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American rapper Nicki Minaj has praised U.S. President Donald Trump for designating Nigeria as a \u201ccountry of particular concern\u201d over alleged religious persecution.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Minaj expressed gratitude for the freedom of worship in her country, urging global attention to religious oppression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo group should ever be persecuted for practising their faith,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThank you to the President and his team for taking this seriously. God bless every persecuted Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s designation, announced in Washington, could trigger U.S. sanctions or diplomatic pressure on Nigeria over its handling of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Minaj\u2019s remarks have sparked wide reactions online, with many fans applauding her stance on human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; American rapper Nicki Minaj has praised U.S. President Donald Trump for designating Nigeria as a \u201ccountry of particular concern\u201d over alleged religious persecution. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, Minaj expressed gratitude for the freedom of worship in her country, urging global attention to religious oppression. \u201cNo group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77893","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77895,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77893\/revisions\/77895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}