{"id":211430,"date":"2026-02-26T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211430"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:38:54","slug":"bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=211430","title":{"rendered":"Bandits Don\u2019t Fear God, Stop Negotiating With Them  \u2013Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 The Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, has called on state governments to stop negotiating with bandits, saying such actions undermine military operations. \u00a0Musa made the call during an interview with BBC Hausa, where he said bandits cannot be trusted and often break agreements reached with them. \u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 The Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, has called on state governments to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister.jpg",650,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister-300x162.jpg",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister.jpg",640,345,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister.jpg",640,345,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister.jpg",650,350,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister.jpg",650,350,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister.jpg",650,350,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister.jpg",650,350,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/211430-bandits-dont-fear-god-stop-negotiating-with-them-defence-minister-590x350.jpg",590,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}