{"id":61400,"date":"2025-02-17T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61400"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:28:40","slug":"nigerian-military-dismisses-visa-allegations-calls-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/17\/nigerian-military-dismisses-visa-allegations-calls-for-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Military Dismisses Visa Allegations, Calls for Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Defence Headquarters has urged Nigerians to ignore \u201cmalicious allegations\u201d surrounding the military\u2019s visa requests for the Invictus Games in Vancouver, Canada, and instead focus on supporting efforts to enhance national security and troop welfare.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, Director of Defence Information, addressed concerns over visa denials that affected the military\u2019s participation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an invitation for 25 team members, only 14 received visas, preventing seven key athletes from competing.<\/p>\n<p>Gusau praised the team\u2019s resilience, noting that Nigeria still secured gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Games.<\/p>\n<p>He also credited Gen. Christopher Musa, Chief of Defence Staff, for boosting troop morale and spearheading the establishment of Africa\u2019s first Invictus Foundation Centre to support wounded personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming the military\u2019s commitment to service members\u2019 welfare, Gusau called on Nigerians to stand behind their armed forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi The Defence Headquarters has urged Nigerians to ignore \u201cmalicious allegations\u201d surrounding the military\u2019s visa requests for the Invictus Games in Vancouver, Canada, and instead focus on supporting efforts to enhance national security and troop welfare. In a statement on Monday, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, Director of Defence Information, addressed concerns over visa denials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61400","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\/61400","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=61400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61402,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61400\/revisions\/61402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}