{"id":16843,"date":"2019-10-17T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:13:30","slug":"nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria needs more prayers to overcome security challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahmed_Ibrahim_Lawan\">Ahmad Lawan<\/a>, on Wednesday said that Nigeria would need prayers to overcome its current challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan said this when a delegation of the Christian Legislators\u2019 Fellowship of the National Assembly visited him.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by his Special Adviser (Media) Ola Awoniyi, he said, \u201cgiven the situation we are in today, the various challenges that Nigeria and its people face, we even need to pray more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we face serious security challenges. Where we have security agencies, which are mandated to ensure that we are secured and protected, if nothing, we should pray for them that they are able to perform well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not only in empowering them with weapons; the power of God is beyond weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure that all people of faith will continue to pray for our security agencies to protect us,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>Lawan also stated that as leaders, they had the responsibility to ensure that they provided leadership, to continue to seek the intervention of God in the way and manner that we lead our people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to do whatever we can to be as truthful, transparent and accountable to our people,\u201d NAN quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday said that Nigeria would need prayers to overcome its current challenges. Lawan said this when a delegation of the Christian Legislators\u2019 Fellowship of the National Assembly visited him. According to a statement by his Special Adviser (Media) Ola Awoniyi, he said, \u201cgiven the situation we are in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,29],"tags":[648,887,354],"class_list":["post-16843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","tag-lawan","tag-president-of-the-senate","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria needs more prayers to overcome security challenges - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday said that Nigeria would need prayers to overcome its current challenges.Lawan said this when a delegation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria needs more prayers to overcome security challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday said that Nigeria would need prayers to overcome its current challenges.Lawan said this when a delegation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-17T14:54:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-13T12:13:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/04\/Ahmed-Lawan.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria needs more prayers to overcome security challenges\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-17T14:54:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-13T12:13:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/04\/Ahmed-Lawan.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lawan\",\"President of the Senate\",\"security\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-needs-more-prayers-to-overcome-security-challenges\",\"name\":\"Nigeria needs more prayers to overcome security challenges - 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