{"id":101760,"date":"2021-04-29T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101760"},"modified":"2021-04-29T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:03:12","slug":"reuters-nation-is-on-fire-nigerian-lawmakers-demand-action-on-security-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101760","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) &#8220;Nation is on fire&#8221;: Nigerian lawmakers demand action on security crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s parliament called on the presidency, armed forces and police to address the country&#8217;s mounting security crisis on Tuesday, with the lower house urging President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The resolutions come as a wave of violence and lawlessness sweeps across Africa&#8217;s largest economy. Security forces, including the military deployed across most of Nigeria&#8217;s states, have shown little ability to stem the tide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president should immediately declare a state of emergency on security so as to fast track all measures to ensure the restoration of peace in the country,&#8221; said a resolution passed by the lower house.<\/p>\n<p>In the northwest, gunmen have kidnapped more than 700 schoolchildren since December, as militants pillage communities in the region. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/nation-is-fire-nigerian-lawmakers-demand-action-security-crisis-2021-04-27\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reuters: &quot;&quot;Nation is on fire&quot;: Nigerian lawmakers demand action on security crisis&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mdc2AskaUx\">https:\/\/t.co\/mdc2AskaUx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Kohlmann (@IntelTweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IntelTweet\/status\/1387178274179227650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s parliament called on the presidency, armed forces and police to address the country&#8217;s mounting security crisis on Tuesday, with the lower house urging President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency. The resolutions come as a wave of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101760\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,554,578,151,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-armed-forces","category-nigeria-africa","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101763,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101760\/revisions\/101763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}