{"id":294033,"date":"2017-02-13T14:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294033"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:19:37","slug":"trump-to-speak-with-zuma-and-buhari-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294033","title":{"rendered":"Trump to speak with Zuma and Buhari today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is expected to speak with the presidents of Nigeria and South Africa later this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>President Jacob Zuma is expecting the call, according to a tweet from his office:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?attachment_id=294018\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-294018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294018 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SA-Presidency.jpg\" alt=\"sa-presidency\" width=\"633\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian authorities have not yet confirmed the call between Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But the Globe and Mail&#8217;s Africa correspondent has suggested that Nigerians will be following the call closely, if only to get news of their own leader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?attachment_id=294019\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-294019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294019 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Buhari-phone-call.jpg\" alt=\"buhari-phone-call\" width=\"634\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old Nigerian leader has extended his medical leave in the UK, amid concerns back home that his health may be worse than officials are publicly saying.<\/p>\n<p>This phone call would be at 9:45 am today in Washington, which is 3:45 pm in Nigeria and 2:45 pm in London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is expected to speak with the presidents of Nigeria and South Africa later this afternoon. President Jacob Zuma is expecting the call, according to a tweet from his office: Nigerian authorities have not yet confirmed the call between Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump. But the Globe and Mail&#8217;s Africa correspondent has suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[2945,264,3,109],"class_list":["post-294033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-buhari","tag-donald-trump","tag-ghana-news","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}