{"id":900248,"date":"2026-04-19T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/nigerian-govt-denies-british-lithium-project-seizure-alleges-smear-campaign-ahead-of-tinubus-uk-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:14:11","slug":"nigerian-govt-denies-british-lithium-project-seizure-alleges-smear-campaign-ahead-of-tinubus-uk-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/nigerian-govt-denies-british-lithium-project-seizure-alleges-smear-campaign-ahead-of-tinubus-uk-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt denies \u2018British lithium project\u2019 seizure, alleges smear campaign ahead of Tinubu\u2019s UK visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government has dismissed allegations that it seized a British-developed lithium project and handed it to Chinese operators, describing the claim as false and part of a smear campaign by a mining firm.<br \/>\nThe post Nigerian govt denies \u2018British lithium project\u2019 seizure, alleges smear campaign ahead of Tinubu\u2019s UK visit appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/business\/business-news\/864284-nigerian-govt-denies-british-lithium-project-seizure-alleges-smear-campaign-ahead-of-tinubus-uk-visit.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Abdulkareem Mojeed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government has dismissed allegations that it seized a British-developed lithium project and handed it to Chinese operators, describing the claim as false and part of a smear campaign by a mining firm. The post Nigerian govt denies \u2018British lithium project\u2019 seizure, alleges smear campaign ahead of Tinubu\u2019s UK visit appeared first on Premium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,21999,192],"tags":[11500,14533],"class_list":{"0":"post-900248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denies","8":"category-nigerian","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-denies","11":"tag-nigerian"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}