{"id":219609,"date":"2026-01-07T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-venezuela-niia-foreign-policy-experts-slam-us-strike-maduros-capture\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:47:07","slug":"nigeria-venezuela-niia-foreign-policy-experts-slam-us-strike-maduros-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-venezuela-niia-foreign-policy-experts-slam-us-strike-maduros-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Venezuela &#8211; NIIA, Foreign Policy Experts Slam Us Strike, Maduro&#8217;s Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;Say action raises concern over new form of imperialism<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">AS the condemnation over the recent US invasion of Venezuela and capture of its President, Nicholas Maduro, continues to grow, the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, and other foreign policy experts in Nigeria have taken a swipe at President Donald Trump, saying his action raised concern about growing trend of imperialism by global superpowers and global stability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">The experts, who include Professors Eghosa Osaghae, NIIA DG;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070394.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>&#8230;Say action raises concern over new form of imperialism AS the condemnation over the recent US invasion of Venezuela and capture of its President, Nicholas Maduro, continues to grow, the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, and other foreign policy experts in Nigeria have taken a swipe at President Donald Trump, saying his action raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219610,"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":[258,256,11596,5060,5169,53328,257,4687,393,53355,6470,12557,254,2080,15133],"class_list":["post-219609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capture","tag-experts","tag-foreign","tag-maduros","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-niia","tag-policy","tag-slam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-venezuela"],"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\/219609","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=219609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}