{
  "id": 8228250,
  "title": "Why is Nigeria succumbing to American hegemony?, By Jibrin Ibrahim",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/why-is-nigeria-succumbing-to-american-hegemony-by-jibrin-ibrahim",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T10:44:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/910449-why-is-nigeria-succumbing-to-american-hegemony-by-jibrin-ibrahim.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "It was difficult to understand how our president, Bola Tinubu, would go and beg President Trump to shoot missiles into Nigeria on Christmas evening last year, allegedly to kill Islamist terrorists. Did the Nigerian presidency not read the new national security strategy, which states bluntly that all American action would only be in the interest […] The post Why is Nigeria succumbing to American…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}