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Speaking with a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent on Tuesday, the DHQ spokesperson said the military would return with a better strategy to confront the bandits<\/p>\n
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has explained why soldiers were withdrawn from some bandits-troubled communities in Niger State.<\/p>\n
Military authorities withdrew troops from the communities in April following a deadly ambush of the soldiers by bandits.<\/p>\n
The authorities said the controversial withdrawal was for tactical reasons.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Speaking with a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent on Tuesday, the DHQ spokesperson said the military would return with a better strategy to confront the bandits The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has explained why soldiers were withdrawn from some bandits-troubled communities in Niger State. Military authorities withdrew troops from the communities in April following a deadly ambush of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179448,"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":[258,256,10216,7103,3318,257,404,4687,393,482,4940,254,8515,42162],"class_list":["post-179447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bandits","tag-communities","tag-military","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-siege","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops","tag-withdrew"],"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\/179447","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=179447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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