{"id":17445,"date":"2024-01-30T15:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:27:57","slug":"senate-summons-security-chiefs-amid-rising-insecurity-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/30\/senate-summons-security-chiefs-amid-rising-insecurity-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Summons Security Chiefs Amid Rising Insecurity In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Senate has called a meeting with security chiefs in response to the increasing insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>After a three-hour closed-door meeting, the Senate expressed condemnation for the rising incidents of kidnappings, banditry, and the killing of innocent citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Leader, Michael Bamidele Opeyemi, revealed that all 109 senators sponsored the motion on insecurity due to its significance.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio expressed deep concern over the escalating banditry and kidnappings, noting that intermediaries are facilitating ransom payments for kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio strongly condemned recent attacks in Plateau and the gas explosion in Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>A specific date for the security chiefs&#8217; appearance before the Senate will be determined later.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the attacks and the Ibadan explosion by observing a one-minute silence before adjourning until February 6, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Senate has called a meeting with security chiefs in response to the increasing insecurity in the country. After a three-hour closed-door meeting, the Senate expressed condemnation for the rising incidents of kidnappings, banditry, and the killing of innocent citizens. The Senate Leader, Michael Bamidele Opeyemi, revealed that all 109 senators sponsored the motion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17447,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions\/17447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}