{"id":243546,"date":"2026-09-07T08:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/nigeria-jonathan-bids-farewell-to-ex-sierra-leone-president-after-2-years-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:29:53","slug":"nigeria-jonathan-bids-farewell-to-ex-sierra-leone-president-after-2-years-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/nigeria-jonathan-bids-farewell-to-ex-sierra-leone-president-after-2-years-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Jonathan Bids Farewell to Ex-Sierra Leone President After 2 Years in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, saw off ex-Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma, who returned to his country after spending more than two years in Nigeria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Koroma fled his country for Nigeria in January 2024 after being charged with treason over the November 2023 attacks in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">But the Sierra Leonean government dropped the charges two months ago and said Koroma was free to return to Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In a statement, Jonathan described his departure as a significant moment for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609070065.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, saw off ex-Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma, who returned to his country after spending more than two years in Nigeria. Koroma fled his country for Nigeria in January 2024 after being charged with treason over the November 2023 attacks in Freetown. But the Sierra Leonean government dropped the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":243547,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,8632,47355,8633,8304,6572,257,4687,2450,1135,254,5114],"class_list":["post-243546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bids","tag-exsierra","tag-farewell","tag-jonathan","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-president","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"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\/243546","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=243546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}