{"id":917618,"date":"2022-01-19T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/nigeria-will-defeat-evil-forces-contesting-for-its-soul-says-osinbajo\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:06:37","slug":"nigeria-will-defeat-evil-forces-contesting-for-its-soul-says-osinbajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/nigeria-will-defeat-evil-forces-contesting-for-its-soul-says-osinbajo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Will Defeat Evil Forces Contesting For Its Soul, Says Osinbajo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_830650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-830650\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-830650 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Osinbajo-VP-600x508.jpeg\" alt=\"Insecurity: Nigeria Will Defeat Evil Forces Contesting For Its Soul, Says Osinbajo\" width=\"600\" height=\"508\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-830650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yemi Osinbajo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Buhari administration, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is resolved to confront and defeat \u201cevil forces contesting the country\u2019s soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Osinbajo delivered the 8th Sir Ahmadu Bello Foundation Memorial Lecture on leadership and good governance on Tuesday in Kano, according to his spokesperson, Laolu Akande.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReviving Northern Traditional Institutions: Imperative for Peace and Security in Northern Nigeria\u201d was the title of the speech.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional institutions, according to the vice-president, are critical to Nigeria\u2019s community policing program and can provide vital intelligence to state officials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_e24 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Saraki: Nigeria Needs Modern-Day Strategies To Deal With Insecurity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said without a tough, collaborative resistance, \u201cneither the glorious legacies of the past nor the future our children will inherit, are immune to the unchecked onslaught\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President on numerous occasions reiterated the view that our peace and security architecture must recognize that traditional institutions are our first line of defence against the forces of anarchy,\u201d Osinbajo was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government has remained resolute in the fight against terrorists and insurgents. Recent efforts have focused on deploying technology for surveillance, intelligence gathering and attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a fight we are determined to win. And we know that by the grace of God, all of these evil forces will be completely exterminated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will also continue to encourage collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Justice, their State counterparts, and law enforcement, to ensure that those who have been apprehended for terrorism and violent crimes are effectively prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemi Osinbajo The Buhari administration, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is resolved to confront and defeat \u201cevil forces contesting the country\u2019s soul.\u201d Osinbajo delivered the 8th Sir Ahmadu Bello Foundation Memorial Lecture on leadership and good governance on Tuesday in Kano, according to his spokesperson, Laolu Akande. \u201cReviving Northern Traditional Institutions: Imperative for Peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}