{"id":82453,"date":"2026-02-04T06:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82453"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:49:06","slug":"us-deploys-military-team-to-nigeria-over-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/04\/us-deploys-military-team-to-nigeria-over-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"US deploys military team to Nigeria over insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rofiat Olokuta\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States has confirmed the deployment of a small military team to Nigeria to support efforts to address the country\u2019s security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The US Africa Command (AFRICOM), disclosed the deployment, saying it followed engagements between US and Nigerian authorities amid renewed attacks by insurgent and extremist groups in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>AFRICOM said the personnel will provide specialised support, including intelligence and advisory assistance, to strengthen Nigeria\u2019s counter terrorism operations. It, however, did not disclose the number of troops deployed or their locations.<\/p>\n<p>A US military official said the team is not on a combat mission, but is part of ongoing security cooperation between Abuja and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has battled Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), in the northeast, alongside banditry and kidnappings in other regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rofiat Olokuta\u00a0 The United States has confirmed the deployment of a small military team to Nigeria to support efforts to address the country\u2019s security challenges. The US Africa Command (AFRICOM), disclosed the deployment, saying it followed engagements between US and Nigerian authorities amid renewed attacks by insurgent and extremist groups in parts of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1754,1724,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-foreign-news","category-insecurity","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453","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=82453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82455,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82453\/revisions\/82455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}