{"id":220776,"date":"2026-01-17T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-defence-interior-must-act-as-one-to-fix-nigerias-security-gaps-musa\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:11:36","slug":"nigeria-defence-interior-must-act-as-one-to-fix-nigerias-security-gaps-musa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-defence-interior-must-act-as-one-to-fix-nigerias-security-gaps-musa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Defence, Interior Must Act As One to Fix Nigeria&#8217;s Security Gaps &#8211; Musa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa, has called for deeper synergy between the Ministries of Defence and Interior, saying Nigeria&#8217;s internal security challenges can only be effectively tackled through seamless collaboration and shared responsibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Musa made the call on Friday in Abuja during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, where both ministers pledged to strengthen inter-ministerial cooperation to address evolving security threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">He described&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160509.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 Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa, has called for deeper synergy between the Ministries of Defence and Interior, saying Nigeria&#8217;s internal security challenges can only be effectively tackled through seamless collaboration and shared responsibility. Musa made the call on Friday in Abuja during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220777,"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":[6991,258,256,6874,8037,10441,9476,9631,257,4687,393,5761,4586,254],"class_list":["post-220776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defence","tag-fix","tag-gaps","tag-interior","tag-musa","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-security","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\/220776","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=220776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}