{"id":177491,"date":"2024-07-29T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T07:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/west-africa-nigerian-defence-chief-picks-holes-in-ecowas-protocol-on-free-movement\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T07:29:24","slug":"west-africa-nigerian-defence-chief-picks-holes-in-ecowas-protocol-on-free-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/west-africa-nigerian-defence-chief-picks-holes-in-ecowas-protocol-on-free-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Nigerian Defence Chief Picks Holes in Ecowas Protocol On Free Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>Says Complexities in Nigeria&#8217;s Borders, Challenge to National Security<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa has said that<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">complexities in the management of Nigeria&#8217;s borders are a challenge to our national security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Gen Musa who spoke on the topic &#8216;Assessing the Current Security Situation in Northern Nigeria&#8217; Friday evening at the Institute of Development Research and Training, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State, said Nigeria has 364 approved international&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407270005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says Complexities in Nigeria&#8217;s Borders, Challenge to National Security The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa has said that complexities in the management of Nigeria&#8217;s borders are a challenge to our national security. Gen Musa who spoke on the topic &#8216;Assessing the Current Security Situation in Northern Nigeria&#8217; Friday evening at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6510,6874,2557,6544,8466,8239,257,393,482,5231,8523,254,4375],"class_list":["post-177491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-defence","tag-ecowas","tag-free","tag-holes","tag-movement","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-picks","tag-protocol","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}