{"id":215655,"date":"2025-12-04T02:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-just-in-senate-begins-screening-of-new-defence-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:24:52","slug":"nigeria-just-in-senate-begins-screening-of-new-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-just-in-senate-begins-screening-of-new-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Just in &#8211; Senate Begins Screening of New Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, nominated ChrostophMusa to replace Mohammed Abubakar, who resigned from the position on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Nigerian Senators have commenced the screening of the new Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Mr Musa, a retired general and immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), was accompanied to the chamber by the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Bashir Lado, and many other retired military officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512030545.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>President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, nominated ChrostophMusa to replace Mohammed Abubakar, who resigned from the position on Monday. Nigerian Senators have commenced the screening of the new Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa. Mr Musa, a retired general and immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), was accompanied to the chamber by the Special Adviser to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215656,"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":[258,256,8082,6874,5941,257,4687,393,6735,8115,254],"class_list":["post-215655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-defence","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-screening","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/215655","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=215655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}