{"id":77933,"date":"2025-11-03T05:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77933"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:55:23","slug":"sans-fault-trumps-threat-of-military-action-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/sans-fault-trumps-threat-of-military-action-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"SANs Fault Trump\u2019s Threat of Military Action in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), have condemned U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to deploy troops to Nigeria over alleged killings of Christians, describing it as illegal and a breach of Nigeria\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had warned that the U.S. might \u201cgo in guns blazing\u201d if the Nigerian government failed to stop what he termed a \u201cChristian genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Constitutional lawyer Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), said any foreign military operation without Nigeria\u2019s consent would amount to an act of aggression under international law.<\/p>\n<p>Adedayo Adedeji (SAN), stressed that no nation can interfere in another\u2019s internal affairs, noting that reports of a Christian genocide were exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN), urged the Nigerian government to act decisively to prevent any pretext for foreign intervention, while Jiti Ogunye faulted Trump\u2019s remarks as hypocritical and politically motivated, urging the Tinubu administration to address internal security challenges instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), have condemned U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to deploy troops to Nigeria over alleged killings of Christians, describing it as illegal and a breach of Nigeria\u2019s sovereignty. Trump had warned that the U.S. might \u201cgo in guns blazing\u201d if the Nigerian government failed to stop what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77933","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=77933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77935,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77933\/revisions\/77935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}