{"id":24546,"date":"2024-03-29T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T17:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/moscow-terror-attack-nigerian-govt-states-position-on-russia-ukraine-conflict\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T17:02:32","slug":"moscow-terror-attack-nigerian-govt-states-position-on-russia-ukraine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/moscow-terror-attack-nigerian-govt-states-position-on-russia-ukraine-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow terror attack: Nigerian Govt states position on Russia, Ukraine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has said Nigeria remains non-aligned in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Tuggar said Nigeria remains neutral despite commiserating with Russia over a terrorist attack in Moscow last week.<\/p>\n<p>The minister disclosed this when he hosted members of the diplomatic corps in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said despite condoling with the Russian government over the attack that killed over 140 people, Nigeria will continue to condemn the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Tuggar said, \u201cNigeria has been consistent in terms of even when we had a bipolar world, we were non-aligned, we were neither with the US nor the Soviet bloc at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe dealt with both sides. We are equal opportunity aligners, we are aligned with the interests of Nigeria and we will continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why we continue to emphasize today on strategic autonomy and that\u2019s the new name for non-alignment since we no longer have those two blocs, you no longer have a bipolar world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the structure that you have now, it is a multipolar world. We align with whatever polarity benefits Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tradition of condoling with countries when they have such unfortunate incidents continues. It\u2019s not new. And Russia is not an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow terror attack: Nigerian Govt states position on Russia, Ukraine conflict<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has said Nigeria remains non-aligned in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Tuggar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13104,15,6790],"tags":[865,512,12704,180,766,13105],"class_list":["post-24546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moscow-terror-attack","category-news","category-nigerian-govt","tag-attack","tag-govt","tag-moscow","tag-news","tag-nigerian","tag-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}