{"id":78183,"date":"2025-11-05T22:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78183"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:55:20","slug":"falana-faults-trump-over-false-genocide-claims-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/05\/falana-faults-trump-over-false-genocide-claims-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Falana Faults Trump Over False Genocide Claims in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/p>\n<p>Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of misleading the world with false claims of a \u201cgenocide against Christians\u201d in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television, Falana described Trump\u2019s remark as a \u201cblatant lie\u201d aimed at distorting Nigeria\u2019s image, insisting that the nation\u2019s challenges are rooted in terrorism, banditry, and economic instability, not religious persecution.<\/p>\n<p>He said both Christians and Muslims have been victims of violence across the country, urging Nigerians and the international community to disregard Trump\u2019s comments and work together for peace and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of misleading the world with false claims of a \u201cgenocide against Christians\u201d in Nigeria. Speaking on Channels Television, Falana described Trump\u2019s remark as a \u201cblatant lie\u201d aimed at distorting Nigeria\u2019s image, insisting that the nation\u2019s challenges are rooted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":78184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78183","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\/78183","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78185,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78183\/revisions\/78185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}