{"id":54951,"date":"2024-10-21T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/chief-of-army-staff-lagbaja-spoke-with-defence-chief-musa-dhq\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:06:14","slug":"chief-of-army-staff-lagbaja-spoke-with-defence-chief-musa-dhq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/chief-of-army-staff-lagbaja-spoke-with-defence-chief-musa-dhq\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Army Staff Lagbaja spoke with Defence Chief, Musa \u2013 DHQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has disclosed that ailing Chief of Defence Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja spoke with the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement signed by the spokesman of the Defence Headquarters, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau.<\/p>\n<p>There have been reports that Lagbaja died at an undisclosed hospital abroad about 48 hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>But the Nigerian Army denied reports that Lagbaja was dead, describing such reports as fake news.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gusau said: \u201cThe CDS had only spoken with the COAS a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military remains focused on achieving its statutory responsibilities of protecting the nation\u2019s integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relative peace being enjoyed today is a direct result of the President\u2019s support for the military and the dedication of the AFN leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this end, the AFN and relevant security agencies have been mandated to take necessary action against any individual or group advocating for unconstitutional changes in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Army Staff Lagbaja spoke with Defence Chief, Musa \u2013 DHQ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has disclosed that ailing Chief of Defence Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja spoke with the Chief of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8760,8548,5825,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-of-army-staff","category-lagbaja","category-musa","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54951","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=54951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}