{"id":201781,"date":"2025-07-06T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-us-president-trump-didnt-say-nigerias-leadership-poses-threat-to-global-security\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:40:53","slug":"nigeria-us-president-trump-didnt-say-nigerias-leadership-poses-threat-to-global-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-us-president-trump-didnt-say-nigerias-leadership-poses-threat-to-global-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: US President Trump Didn&#8217;t Say Nigeria&#8217;s Leadership Poses Threat to Global Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>US president Trump didn&#8217;t say Nigeria&#8217;s leadership poses threat to global security <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> The Trump administration is considering adding 36 countries, including Nigeria, to the US travel ban list. But the US president hasn&#8217;t labelled the West African country a threat to global security, as claimed online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Donald-Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> is set to impose a visa ban on Nigerians because Nigeria is a threat to global security. That&#8217;s according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0vJfYWfBpvJztwJ4oLrP5vE6etZhMygNu4UwfzNQohqXsnJfN5RQ4VSQPjUeU6sQvl&amp;id=100084556980532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a> doing the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/afrocania\/posts\/pfbid02pN78J26iUnp4mMSBcLyune8iUVjhP9AACcM7c3jMJfxqbkMFFHyghABygwP5KiHXl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rounds<\/a> on social media in Nigeria&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040539.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>US president Trump didn&#8217;t say Nigeria&#8217;s leadership poses threat to global security IN SHORT: The Trump administration is considering adding 36 countries, including Nigeria, to the US travel ban list. But the US president hasn&#8217;t labelled the West African country a threat to global security, as claimed online. US president Donald Trump is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201782,"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":[258,256,19218,6212,8771,257,4687,393,5761,6790,2450,4586,254,6791,6264],"class_list":["post-201781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-didnt","tag-global","tag-leadership","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-poses","tag-president","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat","tag-trump"],"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\/201781","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=201781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}