{"id":71671,"date":"2025-07-29T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71671"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:48:32","slug":"nsa-ribadu-insecurity-has-dropped-significantly-in-northern-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/29\/nsa-ribadu-insecurity-has-dropped-significantly-in-northern-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Ribadu: Insecurity Has Dropped Significantly in Northern Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"246\"><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"1231\">National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu says insecurity in northern Nigeria has declined significantly under President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration. Speaking during a two-day interactive session with northern leaders in Kaduna, organized by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Ribadu cited improved coordination among security agencies as a key factor in reducing Boko Haram attacks, banditry, and communal violence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"1231\">He revealed that over 11,000 hostages have been rescued as of May 2025, and several notorious bandits neutralized across Zamfara, Kaduna, and Katsina. Ribadu contrasted this with previous years, noting that Kaduna alone recorded 1,192 killings and over 3,000 abductions under the last administration, while Benue reported more than 5,000 deaths.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"1231\">He also praised Governor Uba Sani for deploying non-kinetic approaches in volatile areas like Southern Kaduna and Birnin Gwari, combining military action with community-based initiatives to strengthen local security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu says insecurity in northern Nigeria has declined significantly under President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration. Speaking during a two-day interactive session with northern leaders in Kaduna, organized by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Ribadu cited improved coordination among security agencies as a key factor in reducing Boko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71671","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71673,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71671\/revisions\/71673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}