{"id":48953,"date":"2021-05-13T19:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=48953"},"modified":"2021-05-13T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:52:48","slug":"insecurity-in-nigeria-gen-abdulsalami-abubakar-calls-on-nigerians-to-keep-hope-alive-over-the-current-insecurity-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/insecurity-in-nigeria-gen-abdulsalami-abubakar-calls-on-nigerians-to-keep-hope-alive-over-the-current-insecurity-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity In Nigeria : Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar Calls On Nigerians To Keep Hope Alive Over The Current Insecurity In The Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Olabode Adaramola<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar\u00a0 has enjoined Nigerians to keep hope alive as security agencies were working tirelessly towards bringing to an end,\u00a0 the current security challenges bedeviling the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He stated this while speaking to Journalists yesterday at the Minna Eid prayer ground after performing the two rakaats prayer for Eid el fitr.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The former Nigerian Leader, added that he would also want\u00a0 Nigerians to keep praying and hoping that the solution to this problem was very near,stressing that the problem would soon be overcome and became\u00a0 a thing of the past in Nigeria .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gen. Abdulsalami\u00a0 Abubakar however stated that in order\u00a0 to achieve this, he\u00a0 \u00a0maintained that there was the need for Nigerans to support security forces who were out there helping the nation to enable them succeed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The former Head of State,\u00a0 who advocated\u00a0 collective efforts in the fight against crimes and criminalities across the country by some unpatriotic elements\u00a0 however applauded the security agencies and the\u00a0 Federal and States Governments as well as other stakeholders for their\u00a0 efforts which was aimed\u00a0 at the restoration of peace in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar\u00a0 has enjoined Nigerians to keep hope alive as security agencies were working tirelessly towards bringing to an end,\u00a0 the current security challenges bedeviling the country.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7282,1145],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-48953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-insecurity-in-nigeria","tag-insurgency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Insecurity In Nigeria : Gen. 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