{"id":77899,"date":"2025-11-02T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77899"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:06:28","slug":"us-warns-nigeria-over-alleged-killings-of-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/02\/us-warns-nigeria-over-alleged-killings-of-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"US Warns Nigeria Over Alleged Killings of Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has threatened possible military action against Nigeria if the government fails to stop the alleged killing of Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth made the remark in response to a Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump, who accused Nigeria of tolerating attacks on Christians and ordered the Pentagon to prepare for possible action.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wrote that America would \u201cstop all aid to Nigeria\u201d and might intervene \u201cguns-a-blazing\u201d if the attacks continue.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing Trump\u2019s stance, Hegseth said on X: \u201cThe killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria must end immediately. Either the Nigerian government protects them, or we will act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu, however, dismissed Trump\u2019s comments, affirming that Nigeria upholds religious freedom and remains committed to protecting citizens of all faiths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has threatened possible military action against Nigeria if the government fails to stop the alleged killing of Christians. Hegseth made the remark in response to a Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump, who accused Nigeria of tolerating attacks on Christians and ordered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77899","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=77899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77901,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77899\/revisions\/77901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}