{"id":19548,"date":"2024-02-13T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19548"},"modified":"2024-02-13T13:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:08:06","slug":"senate-holds-closed-door-meeting-with-service-chiefs-on-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/13\/senate-holds-closed-door-meeting-with-service-chiefs-on-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Holds Closed-Door Meeting with Service Chiefs on National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate convened a closed-door meeting with the Service Chiefs on Tuesday afternoon to address the escalating security concerns in the nation. Last week&#8217;s meeting, initially focused on security ministers and the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, was adjourned and expanded to include the current closed-door session.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele announced the transition into a Committee of the Whole for the closed session as they ushered the visitors into the hallowed chamber. Senate President Godswill Akpabio emphasized that the interactive session would be private, with the intention to later brief the Nigerian people on the outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns over the security situation in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), particularly the increasing incidents of kidnapping, prompted the closed-door meeting. Initiated at precisely 12:50 pm, the session aims to address the rising insecurity challenges faced by the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate convened a closed-door meeting with the Service Chiefs on Tuesday afternoon to address the escalating security concerns in the nation. Last week&#8217;s meeting, initially focused on security ministers and the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, was adjourned and expanded to include the current closed-door session. Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele announced the transition into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19554,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548\/revisions\/19554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}