{"id":190077,"date":"2025-01-30T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fact-checking-former-minister-osita-chidokas-claims-on-nigerias-2025-budget-debt-and-policing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:10:45","slug":"nigeria-fact-checking-former-minister-osita-chidokas-claims-on-nigerias-2025-budget-debt-and-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fact-checking-former-minister-osita-chidokas-claims-on-nigerias-2025-budget-debt-and-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fact-Checking Former Minister Osita Chidoka&#8217;s Claims On Nigeria&#8217;s 2025 Budget, Debt and Policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Fact-checking former minister Osita Chidoka&#8217;s claims on Nigeria&#8217;s 2025 budget, debt and policing<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chidoka was correct about the pace of Nigeria&#8217;s population growth, increased debt repayments, police funding in South Africa, and Nigeria&#8217;s difficulties in weaning itself off commodity exports.<\/li>\n<li>However, he was off with claims about the growth of Nigeria&#8217;s budget, the country&#8217;s current indebtedness and palm oil imports.<\/li>\n<li>The former minister also missed the mark about police funding in both Nigeria and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501300184.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact-checking former minister Osita Chidoka&#8217;s claims on Nigeria&#8217;s 2025 budget, debt and policing Chidoka was correct about the pace of Nigeria&#8217;s population growth, increased debt repayments, police funding in South Africa, and Nigeria&#8217;s difficulties in weaning itself off commodity exports. However, he was off with claims about the growth of Nigeria&#8217;s budget, the country&#8217;s current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6080,50533,8117,6861,14837,5941,257,4687,393,5761,41296,16420,254],"class_list":["post-190077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-budget","tag-chidokas","tag-claims","tag-debt","tag-factchecking","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-osita","tag-policing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}