{"id":60313,"date":"2025-02-01T13:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60313"},"modified":"2025-02-01T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T13:20:54","slug":"shehu-sani-confident-in-militarys-ability-to-defeat-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/01\/shehu-sani-confident-in-militarys-ability-to-defeat-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Sani Confident in Military\u2019s Ability to Defeat Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani has expressed confidence in the Nigerian Armed Forces&#8217; ability to defeat ISWAP, Boko Haram, bandits, and the recently proscribed Lakurawa terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Sani acknowledged the immense pressure on the military, noting that no other army in Africa is engaged on multiple battlefronts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian Armed Forces are fighting ISWAP and Boko Haram in the North East, and bandits and Lakurawa in the North West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Army in Africa is engaged and stretched to this level. We appreciate their patriotism and sacrifices to secure our country. We shall overcome,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His statement follows a strong declaration by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, who warned that any Lakurawa terrorist encountered by Nigerian troops is \u201cas good as dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a Federal High Court ruling in Abuja, delivered by Justice James Omotosho, officially designated Lakurawa as a terrorist organization, granting the military full legal backing to act decisively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Former Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani has expressed confidence in the Nigerian Armed Forces&#8217; ability to defeat ISWAP, Boko Haram, bandits, and the recently proscribed Lakurawa terrorist group. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Sani acknowledged the immense pressure on the military, noting that no other army in Africa is engaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60313","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60315,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60313\/revisions\/60315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}