{"id":175489,"date":"2025-08-21T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:39:50","slug":"nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Government pursuing terrorism financiers \u2013 CDS Musa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, has disclosed that there are ongoing efforts by the Federal Government to arrest terrorism financiers.<\/p>\n<p>Musa revealed that the Attorney General of the Federation and the National Security Adviser are working to identify those funding terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday, Gen Musa said some of these financiers operate from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe process is ongoing for this government. I can say that last week the Attorney General has gone to check because it has to do with a lot of legal issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd because it has to do with international connections, some of them have funds coming from outside and we can\u2019t do anything from within.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe local ones try to employ a few individuals and provide them with motorcycles and those ones are remitting funds daily into some accounts and it\u2019s been tracked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from the intelligence setup, the financial leaks are also being followed through and arrests have been made. I can assure you that the Attorney General of the Federation, the NSA are working seriously to ensure that we address those issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, has disclosed that there are ongoing efforts by the Federal Government to arrest terrorism financiers. Musa revealed that the Attorney General of the Federation and the National Security Adviser are working to identify those funding terrorism. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[14552,11999,254,822],"class_list":["post-175489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-cds-musa","tag-christopher-musa","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-government"],"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>Nigerian Government pursuing terrorism financiers \u2013 CDS Musa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, has disclosed that there are ongoing efforts by the Federal Government ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Government pursuing terrorism financiers \u2013 CDS Musa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, has disclosed that there are ongoing efforts by the Federal Government ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-21T21:58:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-21T23:39:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755807146.022326.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1028\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"866\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian Government pursuing terrorism financiers \u2013 CDS Musa\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-21T21:58:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-21T23:39:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa\"},\"wordCount\":210,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755807146.022326.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CDS Musa\",\"Christopher Musa\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nigerian government\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-pursuing-terrorism-financiers-cds-musa\",\"name\":\"Nigerian Government pursuing terrorism financiers \u2013 CDS Musa - 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