{"id":23860,"date":"2026-02-17T08:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-state-that-100-more-us-military-personnel-arrive-to-tackle-islamists\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:37","slug":"nigeria-state-that-100-more-us-military-personnel-arrive-to-tackle-islamists","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-state-that-100-more-us-military-personnel-arrive-to-tackle-islamists\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria state that 100 more US military personnel arrive to tackle Islamists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 United States (US) military personnel have arrived in Nigeria as Washington scales up an operation to target Islamist insurgents, a Nigerian\u00a0Defence Spokesperson\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has accused Nigeria of failing to protect Christians from Islamist militants in the northwest.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria denies discriminating against any religion, saying its security forces target armed groups that attack both Christians and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The US carried out strikes targeting Islamic State-linked militants in December, and a small US military team has been operating on the ground to boost Nigeria&#8217;s intelligence capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, several planes carrying US troops and equipment have headed to Nigeria&#8217;s northern states, according to flight tracking data reviewed by\u00a0<em>Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Major General Samaila Uba,\u00a0Spokesperson\u00a0for Nigeria&#8217;s Defence Headquarters, said the troops would train and advise local forces, but not take part in combat.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Nigeria&#8217;s military said it expected around 200 more US troops.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesperson Sunday Dare said Nigeria needed &#8220;massive support from the US government&#8221; in terms of fighter jets and munitions, but declined to give numbers or a timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23618,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-23860","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"US military personnel have arrived in Nigeria","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26702,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23860\/revisions\/26702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}