{"id":2459,"date":"2023-11-16T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/its-tough-times-for-nigerians-nsa-nuhu-ribadu-admits\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T17:00:53","slug":"its-tough-times-for-nigerians-nsa-nuhu-ribadu-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/its-tough-times-for-nigerians-nsa-nuhu-ribadu-admits\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s tough times for Nigerians\u2019 \u2013 NSA Nuhu Ribadu admits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu on Thursday admitted that things are tough for Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Ribadu, however, noted that by saying the truth about the situation, things will get better.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at the ongoing 19th Annual Nigerian Editors Conference in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ribadu: \u201cIt\u2019s tough times and that is the reality. We are not condemning anyone but that is the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are in charge must say the truth, say it as it is, and then hopefully things will be better for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ribadu also urged Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu over the high level of insecurity in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that there has been a lot of improvement in the security situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all in this together, as a National Security Adviser, you want to hear about national security. We have been there about five months a few days into the office. We have given Nigeria to President Bola Tinubu to manage it for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last five months, I have been there by his side and have seen how things were and how things are when we started, and hopefully the direction we are going is okay,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s tough times for Nigerians\u2019 \u2013 NSA Nuhu Ribadu admits<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu on Thursday admitted that things are tough for Nigerians. Ribadu, however, noted that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4311,4312],"tags":[180,2110,4313,2111],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nsa","category-nuhu-ribadu","tag-news","tag-nsa","tag-nuhu","tag-ribadu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}