{"id":197235,"date":"2026-03-20T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:57:17","slug":"insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai","title":{"rendered":"Insurgency Not Overwhelming Troops Says Buratai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Turku Buratai (rtd), says the insurgency bedeviling the country especially the Northeast is not overwhelming the Nigerian troops.<\/p>\n<p>Buratai made this statement on Friday when he featured in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television monitored .<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking on the fight against insurgency and banditry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see that the insurgency is somehow overwhelming the troops. We are okay. Now we have more enablers in terms of drones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of platforms have been injected but the military still needs more of such platforms and the enablers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the landmass of the Northeast only, it\u2019s quite enormous. This is what we have always talked about even during our time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at it, the troops are so dispersed. Manpower and equipment are challenges,\u201d he said.<\/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. Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Turku Buratai (rtd), says the insurgency bedeviling the country especially the Northeast is not overwhelming the Nigerian troops. Buratai made this statement on Friday when he featured in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television monitored . He was speaking on the fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":197233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-197235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"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>Insurgency Not Overwhelming Troops Says Buratai - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Turku Buratai (rtd), says the insurgency bedeviling the country especially the Northe ...\" \/>\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\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Insurgency Not Overwhelming Troops Says Buratai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Turku Buratai (rtd), says the insurgency bedeviling the country especially the Northe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-20T18:48:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-20T19:57:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/sm_1774036589.469884.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"739\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"415\" \/>\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\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Insurgency Not Overwhelming Troops Says Buratai\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-20T18:48:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-20T19:57:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/sm_1774036589.469884.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insurgency-not-overwhelming-troops-says-buratai\",\"name\":\"Insurgency Not Overwhelming Troops Says Buratai - 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