{"id":235661,"date":"2026-06-08T05:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-insecurity-acquire-arms-to-defend-yourselves-emir-of-argungu-tells-residents\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:09:12","slug":"nigeria-insecurity-acquire-arms-to-defend-yourselves-emir-of-argungu-tells-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-insecurity-acquire-arms-to-defend-yourselves-emir-of-argungu-tells-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Insecurity &#8211; &#8216;Acquire Arms to Defend Yourselves,&#8217; Emir of Argungu Tells Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Birnin Kebbi \u2014 The Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Muhammad Samaila Mera, has called on residents of his emirate to legally acquire weapons to protect their communities against persistent attacks by bandits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Emir also emphasized the importance of intelligence gathering and information sharing with security agencies, urging communities across the emirate to remain vigilant and take proactive measures against terrorists and criminal elements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">He made the call during a meeting with district heads,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050532.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>Birnin Kebbi \u2014 The Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Muhammad Samaila Mera, has called on residents of his emirate to legally acquire weapons to protect their communities against persistent attacks by bandits. The Emir also emphasized the importance of intelligence gathering and information sharing with security agencies, urging communities across the emirate to remain vigilant and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235662,"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":[15844,258,256,35457,7008,11846,8148,2134,257,4687,393,4288,254,7036],"class_list":["post-235661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-acquire","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-argungu","tag-arms","tag-defend","tag-emir","tag-insecurity","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells"],"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\/235661","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=235661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}