{"id":195597,"date":"2025-04-07T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-listeners-react-to-trumps-voa-hausa-closure\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:27:37","slug":"nigerian-listeners-react-to-trumps-voa-hausa-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-listeners-react-to-trumps-voa-hausa-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Listeners React to Trump&#8217;s VOA Hausa Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">VOA Hausa&#8217;s research estimated a weekly audience of 16.9 million for its programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Listeners of the popular Voice Of America (VOA) Hausa radio service in Northern Nigeria and other neighbouring countries have turned to other stations for their news updates after the radio station stopped transmitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The station was affected by a recent executive order by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Mr Trump announced an <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/live-updates\/trump-2nd-term-live-updates-trump-defends-tariff?id=119625202&amp;entryId=119832526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> on 15 March, to effectively dismantle the US Agency for Global Media, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504070430.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>VOA Hausa&#8217;s research estimated a weekly audience of 16.9 million for its programmes. Listeners of the popular Voice Of America (VOA) Hausa radio service in Northern Nigeria and other neighbouring countries have turned to other stations for their news updates after the radio station stopped transmitting. The station was affected by a recent executive order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5061,17466,36844,257,393,482,12884,254,9387,16730],"class_list":["post-195597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-closure","tag-hausa","tag-listeners","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-react","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trumps","tag-voa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195597","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=195597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}