{"id":82288,"date":"2026-01-29T06:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82288"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:56:34","slug":"fg-to-engage-retired-military-personnel-to-reclaim-ungoverned-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/29\/fg-to-engage-retired-military-personnel-to-reclaim-ungoverned-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to Engage Retired Military Personnel to Reclaim Ungoverned Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government plans to engage retired military personnel to reclaim ungoverned spaces and strengthen national security.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement followed the inauguration of an 18-member committee by the Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), on Tuesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will focus on reclaiming ungoverned areas and repositioning the Nigerian Legion corps of Commissionaires and Veterans.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Ministry\u2019s Deputy Director of Information, Enderline Chukwu, noted that Musa was represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Richard Pheelangwa.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Minister said the initiative aims to empower veterans to live dignified and productive lives after retirement.<\/p>\n<p>It also seeks to address structural challenges that have limited the defence community\u2019s contributions to national development while boosting security and economic activity in previously ungoverned areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Federal Government plans to engage retired military personnel to reclaim ungoverned spaces and strengthen national security. The announcement followed the inauguration of an 18-member committee by the Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), on Tuesday in Abuja. The committee will focus on reclaiming ungoverned areas and repositioning the Nigerian Legion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82288","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\/82288","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=82288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82290,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82288\/revisions\/82290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}