{"id":79671,"date":"2025-12-04T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79671"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:19:12","slug":"tinubu-praises-senate-for-musas-confirmation-as-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/04\/tinubu-praises-senate-for-musas-confirmation-as-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Praises Senate for Musa\u2019s Confirmation as Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has commended the Senate for swiftly confirming retired General Christopher Musa as Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Defence, describing the appointment as timely amid the nation\u2019s security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the confirmation on his official X handle, Tinubu called Musa \u201ca fine gentleman\u201d whose leadership is vital at this critical juncture.<\/p>\n<p>Musa pledged to investigate recent security breaches, including the troop withdrawal from a Kebbi school before the November 17 abduction of students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata President Bola Tinubu has commended the Senate for swiftly confirming retired General Christopher Musa as Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Defence, describing the appointment as timely amid the nation\u2019s security challenges. Announcing the confirmation on his official X handle, Tinubu called Musa \u201ca fine gentleman\u201d whose leadership is vital at this critical juncture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79671","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\/79671","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=79671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79673,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79671\/revisions\/79673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}