{"id":30062,"date":"2024-05-02T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fcta-to-boost-security-with-drones-wike\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:00:47","slug":"fcta-to-boost-security-with-drones-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fcta-to-boost-security-with-drones-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA to boost security with drones \u2013 Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that the FCT Administration had commenced the procurement processes for drones to boost the security architecture of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Wike made this disclosure when the Consul-General of the Embassy of Hungary in Nigeria, Endre Deri, paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>While responding to the consul-general\u2019s comments on the need for drones, the minister said, \u201cWhether we want some drones? Yes, there is no going back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He promised to discuss with security experts to consider a conversation with Deri on the type of drones that would be effective and efficient, based on the terrain of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>He said that security was part of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s priorities in his Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the security interventions in the FCT were already yielding results, stressing that incidents of insecurity had drastically reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou too can attest to the fact that Abuja is safer now, because of the way we have been able to tackle the issue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Deri expressed the willingness of Hungary to partner with FCTA to improve security in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>FCTA to boost security with drones \u2013 Wike<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that the FCT Administration had commenced the procurement processes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14328,1767,15,1950],"tags":[6497,1771,180,33],"class_list":["post-30062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drone","category-fcta","category-news","category-wike","tag-drone","tag-fcta","tag-news","tag-wike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30062","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=30062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}