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Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said on November 4 that state-backed religious persecution is “impossible” in Nigeria, citing the country’s constitutional commitment to religious freedom and rule of law.

Speaking in Berlin alongside German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, Tuggar responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning of potential “fast” military action if Nigeria fails to stop attacks on Christians by Islamist insurgents.

Tuggar held up an official document titled “Nigeria’s Constitutional Commitment to Religious Freedom and Rule of Law,” emphasizing that Nigeria’s constitution and federal laws protect religious liberty across all levels of government.

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00:40Nigeria's constitutional commitment to religious freedom and rule of law all the answers
00:44are in there and uh this is what guides us and this is what shows that it's impossible
00:48for there to be a religious persecution uh that can be
01:00Supported in any form of worship by the government of Nigeria at any level
01:0665 years of diplomatic relations
01:09Good luck, uh Syria
01:13So, our overall goal is to increase the number of repatriations for the federal
01:18government of Germany
01:21Uh and that's why and this is indisputable also to carry out repatriations to Syria
01:27I am actively involved in this just as I have already done in Afghanistan
01:31We primarily do this with criminals and dangerous individuals
01:35So far we have not succeeded in doing so in Syria
01:40Uh but we are working on it and that was also one of my topics in the talks I had in
01:44Syria with the uh president the uh foreign minister and the uh prime minister
01:51Uh this is happening under the leadership of the interior authorities
01:55And here you always look at the local conditions
01:58But the foreign office and the foreign minister support this constructively
02:03There is no difference at all we already said that at the weekend it remains the same today
02:08A key issue for Germany and not only that
02:11I had already said in Israel myself after the conversation with my colleague Gideon Saar
02:19That I would like to take another look at this issue
02:21We did that together with the experts here
02:25We have a good picture of the situation on the ground and we can see that the situation has noticeably stabilized
02:36My trust in the peace process has grown overall
02:39So that I have come to the conclusion that we can now indeed adjust our assessment of the security situation in Israel
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