{"id":229403,"date":"2026-04-03T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nscdc-deploys-57000-personnel-nationwide-to-secure-easter-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:06:35","slug":"nigeria-nscdc-deploys-57000-personnel-nationwide-to-secure-easter-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nscdc-deploys-57000-personnel-nationwide-to-secure-easter-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NSCDC Deploys 57,000 Personnel Nationwide to Secure Easter Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps announced the deployment of over 57,000 personnel across the country ahead of the Easter celebrations, in a bid to strengthen security and ensure a peaceful holiday period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Commandant-General of the corps, Ahmed Audi, approved the large-scale mobilisation, which would see officers, including specialised tactical units and intelligence operatives, stationed across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A statement yesterday by the spokesman&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030358.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>Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps announced the deployment of over 57,000 personnel across the country ahead of the Easter celebrations, in a bid to strengthen security and ensure a peaceful holiday period. Commandant-General of the corps, Ahmed Audi, approved the large-scale mobilisation, which would see officers, including specialised tactical units and intelligence operatives, stationed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229404,"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":[258,256,7637,13205,7396,8617,257,4687,393,29352,9818,7904,254],"class_list":["post-229403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-celebrations","tag-deploys","tag-easter","tag-nationwide","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nscdc","tag-personnel","tag-secure","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\/229403","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=229403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}