{"id":200246,"date":"2026-07-18T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/terrorists-agents-may-be-in-nigerian-army-police"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:03:26","slug":"terrorists-agents-may-be-in-nigerian-army-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/terrorists-agents-may-be-in-nigerian-army-police","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists&#8217; Agents May Be in Nigerian Army Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has hinted that there may be agents of terrorists in the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police Force, NPF.<\/p>\n<p>Bwala made the remark on The Link Up Podcast, a panel discussion hosted by EchoRoom and published on Friday, while responding to a question on if the military has been infiltrated by agents of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that such can\u2019t be ruled out, the presidential aide recalled how some army officers and policemen have been arrested over their links to terrorism in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Bwala said, \u201cYou cannot rule out the facts that they may have one or two agents in the army, anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur police have always been arrested, and soldiers arrested involved in this kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will happen anywhere in the world. Snowden was a contractor to the US national security. These are elements that can happen, and why I didn\u2019t want to talk much on that is because there are measures we\u2019re taking and we don\u2019t want people to know.\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. President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has hinted that there may be agents of terrorists in the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police Force, NPF. Bwala made the remark on The Link Up Podcast, a panel discussion hosted by EchoRoom and published on Friday, while responding to a question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":200245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-200246","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>Terrorists&#039; Agents May Be in Nigerian Army Police - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has hinted that there may be agents of te ...\" \/>\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\/terrorists-agents-may-be-in-nigerian-army-police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terrorists&#039; 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