{"id":79570,"date":"2025-12-02T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79570"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:23:55","slug":"tinubu-nominates-gen-musa-as-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/02\/tinubu-nominates-gen-musa-as-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Nominates Gen. Musa as Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated General Christopher Gwabin Musa as Nigeria\u2019s new Minister of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Tinubu announced Musa\u2019s nomination to succeed Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, who resigned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>General Musa, 58, a distinguished soldier and former Chief of Defence Staff (2023-2025), received the Colin Powell Award for Soldiering in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Sokoto in 1967, he graduated from the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1991 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>He has held key positions including Commanding Officer of 73 Battalion, Deputy Chief of Staff, Training\/Operations at the Infantry Centre, Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole\u2019s Sector 3, and Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter, President Tinubu expressed confidence in General Musa\u2019s ability to lead the Ministry of Defence and strengthen Nigeria\u2019s security architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated General Christopher Gwabin Musa as Nigeria\u2019s new Minister of Defence. In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Tinubu announced Musa\u2019s nomination to succeed Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, who resigned on Monday. General Musa, 58, a distinguished soldier and former Chief of Defence Staff (2023-2025), received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79570","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\/79570","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=79570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79572,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79570\/revisions\/79572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}