{"id":235869,"date":"2026-06-10T05:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-we-cannot-address-todays-complex-security-threats-alone-says-army-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:12:36","slug":"nigeria-we-cannot-address-todays-complex-security-threats-alone-says-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-we-cannot-address-todays-complex-security-threats-alone-says-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: We Cannot Address Today&#8217;s Complex Security Threats Alone, Says Army Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Abuja \u2014 The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has emphasised that the Nigerian Army cannot tackle the country&#8217;s increasingly complex security challenges in isolation, underscoring the importance of stronger collaboration among security agencies, government institutions, local communities and other critical stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">According to the Army Chief, contemporary threats such as terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other forms of criminality require a coordinated,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606090559.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>Abuja \u2014 The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has emphasised that the Nigerian Army cannot tackle the country&#8217;s increasingly complex security challenges in isolation, underscoring the importance of stronger collaboration among security agencies, government institutions, local communities and other critical stakeholders. According to the Army Chief, contemporary threats such as terrorism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235870,"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":[7325,258,256,4361,6510,10102,257,4687,393,4586,254,7611,10696],"class_list":["post-235869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-chief","tag-complex","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats","tag-todays"],"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\/235869","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=235869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}