{"id":78608,"date":"2025-11-12T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78608"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:38:47","slug":"defence-minister-orders-probe-into-wike-naval-officer-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/12\/defence-minister-orders-probe-into-wike-naval-officer-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Orders Probe into Wike-Naval Officer Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, says an investigation is underway into the recent confrontation between the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and a naval officer, A. M. Yerima, over a disputed parcel of land in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing to launch activities for the 2026 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Abuja, Badaru assured that the Armed Forces would protect any officer performing lawful duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking into this issue, and we assure all that any officer on lawful duty will be protected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The clash reportedly occurred when Wike accused the military of illegally occupying land allegedly belonging to former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Zubairu Gambo (rtd.).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the incident, Badaru unveiled initiatives to enhance security and veterans\u2019 welfare, including the Reclaiming the Ungoverned Space for Economic Benefits Programme (RUSEB-P), to engage retired soldiers in securing reclaimed areas and promoting agriculture and mining.<\/p>\n<p>He also launched the \u201cThank a Soldier\u201d QR Code for Nigerians to send messages of appreciation to troops.<\/p>\n<p>Badaru revealed that under President Tinubu, troops have neutralised over 13,000 terrorists, arrested 17,000 suspects, rescued 10,000 hostages, and recorded over 100,000 Boko Haram and ISWAP surrenders.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 2,141 Civil War veterans have been enrolled for pensions and proposed renaming the Nigerian Legion as the Veterans Federation of Nigeria (VFN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, says an investigation is underway into the recent confrontation between the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and a naval officer, A. M. Yerima, over a disputed parcel of land in Abuja. Speaking at a press briefing to launch activities for the 2026 Armed Forces Remembrance Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608","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=78608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78610,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608\/revisions\/78610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}