{"id":44742,"date":"2021-06-08T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=44742"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:05:29","slug":"buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting","title":{"rendered":"Buhari presides over emergency national security meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over an emergency National Security Council meeting at the State House in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The President is presiding over the meeting holding at the First Lady\u2019s Conference Room and is expected to review the current security situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Those in attendance include; Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari; Ministers of Defence, Major-General Bashir Magashi (rtd); Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyema and the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd).<\/p>\n<p>Others are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor; Chief of Army Staff; Major General Farouk Yahaya; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amoo, Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Rufai, the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi and other presidential aides.<\/p>\n<p>The council is expected to also look at the security implication of the Twitter ban in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Details later\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Buhari presides over meeting of Police Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over an emergency National Security Council meeting at the State House in Abuja. The President is presiding over the meeting holding at the First Lady\u2019s Conference Room and is expected to review the current security situation in the country. Those in attendance include; Vice President, Prof. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,254],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","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>Buhari presides over emergency national security meeting - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over an emergency National Security Council meeting at the State House ...\" \/>\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\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari presides over emergency national security meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over an emergency National Security Council meeting at the State House ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-08T18:00:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60bf95279001d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari presides over emergency national security meeting\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-08T18:00:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60bf95279001d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-presides-over-emergency-national-security-meeting\",\"name\":\"Buhari presides over emergency national security meeting - 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