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Nigeria's Tuggar to Trump: state-backed religious persecution impossible under constitution
Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar rejects claims of state-backed religious persecution amid U.S. threats, citing Nigeria's constitutional protections and willingness to accept aid if sovereignty is respected.
- On Tuesday, Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said state-backed religious persecution is impossible under Nigerian law, citing the constitutional commitment to religious freedom alongside German counterpart Johann Wadephul in Berlin, Germany.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social his government would immediately stop all aid to Nigeria if it failed to address killings of Christians by Islamist insurgents.
- Nigeria's presidency said it would welcome U.S. assistance against Islamist insurgents if its territorial integrity is respected, while advisors to President Bola Tinubu downplayed Trump's comments.
- Trump said any intervention would aim to eradicate the Islamic terrorists decisively and warned U.S. forces would act ` 'guns-a-blazing,' to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,` if deployed.
- Invoking constitutional safeguards, Yusuf Tuggar, Nigerian Foreign Minister, said religious persecution cannot be supported in any way, shape or form by the Nigerian government at federal, regional, or local levels.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right5Center5Last UpdatedBias Distribution39% Center, 38% Right
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- 39% of the sources are Center, 38% of the sources lean Right
39% Center
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C 39%
R 38%
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