{"id":222053,"date":"2026-01-27T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-a-mirage-of-extraversion-the-political-cost-of-nigerias-lobbying-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:36:00","slug":"nigeria-a-mirage-of-extraversion-the-political-cost-of-nigerias-lobbying-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-a-mirage-of-extraversion-the-political-cost-of-nigerias-lobbying-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: A Mirage of Extraversion &#8211; The Political Cost of Nigeria&#8217;s Lobbying Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Nigerian government has recently engaged the services of a Washington-based lobbying firm to promote its efforts at protecting the lives of Nigerians against terrorists, particularly Christians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"104\">This comes amid Nigeria&#8217;s security crisis, which has moved from a domestic struggle to a theatre of direct American military intervention. In November 2025, President Trump issued a blunt warning to launch an attack in <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/trump-threatens-military-action-in-nigeria-over-killing-of-christians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria &#8220;guns-a-blazing&#8221; if the government failed to stop the killing of Christians&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601270690.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>The Nigerian government has recently engaged the services of a Washington-based lobbying firm to promote its efforts at protecting the lives of Nigerians against terrorists, particularly Christians. This comes amid Nigeria&#8217;s security crisis, which has moved from a domestic struggle to a theatre of direct American military intervention. In November 2025, President Trump issued a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680600:7d264a0f717506edccb507b051dcc124:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6629,7012,53505,39348,13185,257,4687,393,5761,6378,254],"class_list":["post-222053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-deal","tag-extraversion","tag-lobbying","tag-mirage","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680600:7d264a0f717506edccb507b051dcc124:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222053","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=222053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}