{"id":21736,"date":"2026-01-13T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:23:08","slug":"police-wont-disclose-details-of-us-strikes-in-nigeria-says-hundeyin-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21736\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Won’t Disclose Details Of US Strikes In Nigeria, Says Hundeyin \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says it has information about the US strikes against terrorists in Sokoto, but won\u2019t be releasing such details to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is according to the spokesman of the NPF, Benjamin Hundeyin, who spoke on Tuesday\u2019s edition of Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe engage a lot in intelligence gathering, not just intelligence sharing. As the Police Force, we know certain things about the strikes, but we don\u2019t want to talk about them. We decline to talk about that particular operation,\u201d Hundeyin said on the flagship political and current affairs show hosted by Seun Okinbaloye.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a cooperation, but we would rather leave it as a defence matter that the defence would talk about,\u201d the police spokesman stated.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO:\u00a0US Military Strikes ISIS Terrorists In Nigeria On Trump\u2019s Orders<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"A photo combination showing U.S. President Donald Trump and screenshots from U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

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On December 25, 2025, the US launched strikes against terrorists in Sokoto. The Department of Defense said \u201cmultiple ISIS terrorists\u201d were killed in the strikes conducted at the behest of the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump had announced the strikes on his Truth Social platform, where he wrote that: \u201cThe Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay God bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nigerian government said the operation was a joint security effort that was approved by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that the US is cooperating, we would do it jointly, and we would ensure, just as the President emphasised yesterday before he gave the go-ahead, that it must be made clear that it is a joint operation, and it is not targeting any religion nor simply in the name of one religion or the other,\u201d Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, said on the Boxing Day edition of Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a multi-religious country, and we are working with partners like the US to fight terrorism and safeguard the lives and properties of Nigerians,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO: Tinubu Gave Go-Ahead For US Strikes, Nigeria Provided Intelligence \u2014 FG<\/a><\/p>\n

The strikes came in the wake of Trump\u2019s comments and threats over the killing of Christians in Nigeria, which led him to declare the West African nation a Country of Particular Concern.<\/p>\n

The Republican president said Christians in Nigeria faced an \u201cexistential threat\u201d that amounted to \u201cgenocide\u201d. But the Federal Government rejected the claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says it has information about the US strikes against terrorists in Sokoto,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[122,4403,13545],"class_list":{"0":"post-21736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-nigeria","9":"tag-trump","10":"tag-us-strikes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}