{"id":78533,"date":"2025-11-11T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78533"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:40:19","slug":"diplomatic-talks-with-us-yelding-results-says-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/11\/diplomatic-talks-with-us-yelding-results-says-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Talks With US Yelding Results, Says FG\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government says its ongoing diplomatic talks with the United States are yielding positive results amid tensions sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s remarks on alleged religious persecution in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this on Tuesday after appearing on Sky News, saying communication channels with Washington have been reopened to clarify misconceptions about Nigeria\u2019s security and religious situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are talking to them, and I think they are understanding the situation better,\u201d Idris said, describing the allegations as products of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had claimed on Truth Social that Christianity in Nigeria faces an \u201cexistential threat\u201d and announced the country\u2019s redesignation as one of \u201cparticular concern,\u201d ordering military options for review.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria dismissed the claim, insisting it guarantees full religious freedom. Idris accused some U.S.-based lobby groups linked to a proscribed separatist organisation of fueling false narratives.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to working with the U.S. on counterterrorism, saying conflicts in the country are \u201ccomplex and rooted in criminality and politics, not religion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The Federal Government says its ongoing diplomatic talks with the United States are yielding positive results amid tensions sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s remarks on alleged religious persecution in Nigeria. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this on Tuesday after appearing on Sky News, saying communication channels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78533","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\/78533","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=78533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78535,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78533\/revisions\/78535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}