{"id":213917,"date":"2026-03-11T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213917"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:26:05","slug":"dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213917","title":{"rendered":"DHQ denies presence of US troops in Nigeria, affirms security ties with Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Headquarters has dismissed claims by the head of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Dagvin R.M. Anderson, that American troops were deployed to Nigeria to assist in combating insecurity. In a statement issued on Thursday, February 5, 2026, the Director of Defence Information&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hallmarknews.com\/dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Headquarters has dismissed claims by the head of the United States Africa Command<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington.jpg",630,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington.jpg",630,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington.jpg",630,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington.jpg",630,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington.jpg",630,420,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington.jpg",630,420,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington.jpg",630,420,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213917-dhq-denies-presence-of-us-troops-in-nigeria-affirms-security-ties-with-washington-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}