{"id":79832,"date":"2025-12-09T05:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79832"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:55:57","slug":"burkina-faso-seizes-nigerian-military-aircraft-over-airspace-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/09\/burkina-faso-seizes-nigerian-military-aircraft-over-airspace-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso Seizes Nigerian Military Aircraft Over Airspace Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso on Monday forced a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying 11 military personnel to land in Bobo Dioulasso for allegedly violating its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Agence d\u2019Information du Burkina reported that the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), confirmed the interception, stating that the aircraft with two crew members and nine passengers made an in-flight emergency while operating in Burkinabe airspace.<\/p>\n<p>According to the translated statement, Burkinabe authorities found that the aircraft had no authorisation to fly over the country.<\/p>\n<p>The AES condemned the incident as a violation of the sovereignty of its member states, warning that its air and anti-aircraft defences had been placed on maximum alert to \u201cneutralise any aircraft\u201d that breaches its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Air Force and the Federal Government have yet to comment on the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Burkina Faso on Monday forced a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying 11 military personnel to land in Bobo Dioulasso for allegedly violating its airspace. The state-run Agence d\u2019Information du Burkina reported that the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), confirmed the interception, stating that the aircraft with two crew members and nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1754,172,249],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-foreign-news","category-news","category-world-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832","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=79832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79834,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79832\/revisions\/79834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}