{"id":19840,"date":"2024-02-15T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19840"},"modified":"2024-02-15T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:58:35","slug":"breaking-tinubu-govs-in-emergency-meeting-over-insecurity-hardship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/15\/breaking-tinubu-govs-in-emergency-meeting-over-insecurity-hardship\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Tinubu, Govs in Emergency Meeting Over Insecurity, Hardship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 22.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Tiempos',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.05pt;\">President\u00a0Bola Tinubu\u00a0is in an emergency meeting with Governors of the Federation at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 22.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Tiempos',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.05pt;\">Vice President Kashim Shettima; the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FTC) Chief Nyesom Wike; and Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun are also at the meeting, which commenced around 11:30am.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 22.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Tiempos',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.05pt;\">A copy of the meeting\u2019s agenda was not unveiled, but it was gathered that President Tinubu summoned the meeting in a bid to finding remedies to rising cost of food items, insecurity and other economic issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 22.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Tiempos',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.05pt;\">Although Tinubu has directed his economic team including all relevant officials in the government to find a way to ameliorating the situation, the Special Presidential Committee on Emergency have been given approval to make available about 102,000 metric tons of assorted items including rice, maize and millet among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 22.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Tiempos',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.05pt;\"> The ongoing emergency meeting is expected to devise viable alternatives on how to mitigate the rising cost of food items, insecurity and other economic issues, a situation which has necessitated women and youths to take the streets protesting as well as the rising spate of criminal activities with heightened tension in the polity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Bola Tinubu\u00a0is in an emergency meeting with Governors of the Federation at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja.\u00a0 Vice President Kashim Shettima; the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FTC) Chief Nyesom Wike; and Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun are also at the meeting, which commenced around 11:30am.\u00a0 A copy of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59,681,197],"class_list":["post-19840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured","tag-governors","tag-tinubu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19849,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840\/revisions\/19849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}