{"id":1689,"date":"2023-06-01T14:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2023-06-01T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:39:41","slug":"tinubu-holds-first-security-meeting-with-service-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/01\/tinubu-holds-first-security-meeting-with-service-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Holds First Security Meeting With Service Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The President, Bola Tinubu, is currently meeting the Service Chiefs led by the Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor, at the State House, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu who arrived at the Villa at 10:53am on Thursday went straight into a closed-door session with the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo; the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao and the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thursday\u2019s meeting is the President first official engagement with the security helmsmen since assuming office on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although the meeting\u2019s agenda is not yet public, the meeting may feature briefings from each security chief to. keep the President abreast with the state of the nation\u2019s security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In his inaugural address on Monday, Tinubu had promised Nigerians that security would be top priority for his administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said \u201cSecurity shall be the top priority of our administration because neither prosperity nor justice can prevail amidst insecurity and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cTo effectively tackle this menace, we shall reform both our security DOCTRINE and its ARCHITECTURE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe shall invest more in our security personnel, and this means more than an increase in number. We shall provide, better training, equipment, pay and firepower.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President, Bola Tinubu, is currently meeting the Service Chiefs led by the Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}