{"id":73940,"date":"2025-08-22T22:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73940"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:50:05","slug":"acquire-self-defense-skills-musa-urges-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/22\/acquire-self-defense-skills-musa-urges-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquire Self-Defense Skills, Musa Urges Nigerians\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has called on citizens to learn self-defense skills as a means of enhancing personal safety amid rising security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday, Musa likened self-defense to other essential life skills such as driving and swimming, noting that preparedness could prove vital in moments of danger.<\/p>\n<p>He cited European countries where swimming is made compulsory to emphasize the importance of security awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The defence chief also proposed the inclusion of unarmed combat training in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), programme to better equip young graduates for survival.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the reduction of the NYSC orientation to three weeks, saying the period was inadequate to instill vital survival and security knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Musa stressed that national security is a collective responsibility and urged Nigerians to remain vigilant, identifying suspicious individuals and activities to help prevent breaches.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, skills such as self-defense, swimming, and driving are indispensable in today\u2019s world, where malicious actors continue to pose threats to public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has called on citizens to learn self-defense skills as a means of enhancing personal safety amid rising security concerns. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday, Musa likened self-defense to other essential life skills such as driving and swimming, noting that preparedness could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":73941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73940","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\/73940","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73942,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73940\/revisions\/73942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}