{"id":246851,"date":"2026-10-11T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-american-lobbying-firms-disagree-over-57m-u-s-lawsuit-against-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:00:13","slug":"nigeria-american-lobbying-firms-disagree-over-57m-u-s-lawsuit-against-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-american-lobbying-firms-disagree-over-57m-u-s-lawsuit-against-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: American Lobbying Firms Disagree Over $57m U.S. Lawsuit Against Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>DCI Group has rejected allegations in a $57 million US lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu and others, while Femi Fani-Kayode&#8217;s office says he has not been formally served.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">American lobbying firm DCI Group has rejected allegations made by Washington-based lobbyist Karl Von Batten in a $57 million lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, the Federal Government of Nigeria, former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode and the firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">DCI has been hired by the Nigerian government for lobbying activities in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090598.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>DCI Group has rejected allegations in a $57 million US lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu and others, while Femi Fani-Kayode&#8217;s office says he has not been formally served. American lobbying firm DCI Group has rejected allegations made by Washington-based lobbyist Karl Von Batten in a $57 million lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, the Federal Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246852,"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\/00631569:4da5e8d0a2428f179c9c6a01f35e1cb4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[55629,258,256,2332,10490,7082,10205,39348,257,4687,393,254,8308,2282],"class_list":["post-246851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-57m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-american","tag-disagree","tag-firms","tag-lawsuit","tag-lobbying","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631569:4da5e8d0a2428f179c9c6a01f35e1cb4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246851","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=246851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}