{"id":63055,"date":"2025-03-20T04:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63055"},"modified":"2025-03-20T04:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:55:51","slug":"reps-push-for-stronger-security-in-fct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/20\/reps-push-for-stronger-security-in-fct\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Push for Stronger Security in FCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has urged the National Security Adviser to equip security agencies in the Federal Capital Territory with better tools to combat rising threats.<\/p>\n<p>The motion, sponsored by Joshua Obika, cited increasing criminal activities in the nation&#8217;s capital, which hosts top government officials and diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Obika pointed to alarming security reports, including the arrest of over 1,000 suspects in 2024 and the tragic loss of 140 officers.<\/p>\n<p>He also identified 17 criminal black spots, including diplomatic areas and major districts such as Gwarimpa and Maitama.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu directed the Committee on National Security and Intelligence to ensure immediate action on the request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The House of Representatives has urged the National Security Adviser to equip security agencies in the Federal Capital Territory with better tools to combat rising threats. The motion, sponsored by Joshua Obika, cited increasing criminal activities in the nation&#8217;s capital, which hosts top government officials and diplomats. Obika pointed to alarming security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63055","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=63055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63057,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63055\/revisions\/63057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}