{"id":80433,"date":"2025-12-17T06:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80433"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:20:34","slug":"tinubu-faces-diplomatic-row-as-burkina-faso-detains-nigerian-air-force-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/tinubu-faces-diplomatic-row-as-burkina-faso-detains-nigerian-air-force-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Faces Diplomatic Row as Burkina Faso Detains Nigerian Air Force Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu is facing a fresh diplomatic challenge after Burkina Faso detained 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel following the forced landing of a C-130 military aircraft in Bobo Dioulasso on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Burkinabe authorities called the diversion \u201can unfriendly act,\u201d while the Nigerian Air Force said the plane diverted due to technical issues in line with international safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes shortly after Nigerian troops helped foil a coup in Benin Republic, fueling suspicion from Burkina Faso\u2019s junta, led by Captain Ibrahim Traor\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts warn Tinubu must act swiftly, rally West African support, and engage the African Union to secure the release of the soldiers and aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David President Bola Tinubu is facing a fresh diplomatic challenge after Burkina Faso detained 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel following the forced landing of a C-130 military aircraft in Bobo Dioulasso on Monday. Burkinabe authorities called the diversion \u201can unfriendly act,\u201d while the Nigerian Air Force said the plane diverted due to technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80433","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=80433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80435,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80433\/revisions\/80435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}