{"id":202746,"date":"2025-07-18T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nscdc-trains-250-personnel-in-sign-language-for-intelligence-gathering\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:06:17","slug":"nigeria-nscdc-trains-250-personnel-in-sign-language-for-intelligence-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nscdc-trains-250-personnel-in-sign-language-for-intelligence-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NSCDC Trains 250 Personnel in Sign Language for Intelligence Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>The Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has trained and certified 250 of its personnel in sign language, aimed at better gathering of intelligence in the territory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking during the graduation ceremony, Wednesday in Abuja, the FCT Commandant, Dr. Olusola Odumosu, said the initiative is meant to bridge the communication gap between the personnel and members of society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">According to Dr. Odumosu, the training would enhance not only the Corps&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180571.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>The Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has trained and certified 250 of its personnel in sign language, aimed at better gathering of intelligence in the territory. Speaking during the graduation ceremony, Wednesday in Abuja, the FCT Commandant, Dr. Olusola Odumosu, said the initiative is meant to bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,15487,12118,9308,257,4687,393,29352,9818,4368,254,7055],"class_list":["post-202746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gathering","tag-intelligence","tag-language","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nscdc","tag-personnel","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trains"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/202746","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=202746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}