{"id":111106,"date":"2019-04-26T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=111106"},"modified":"2019-04-27T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:32:02","slug":"nigerian-govt-approves-n52bn-for-monitoring-of-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=111106","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Govt Approves N52bn For Monitoring Of Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nigerian-Govt-Approves-N52bn-For-Monitoring-Of-Borders.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N52billion to monitor the country\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to pressmen after a meeting in Abuja on Thursday, Abdulrahman Dambazau, Minister of Interior, said the contract would cover 86 border posts and all the 1,400 illegal routes being used for smuggling and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>He said the pilot system has already been installed at two border posts, disclosing that the information would be available real-time, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p>Dambazau said: \u201cCouncil approved N52billion for e-border solution. This process started in 2012, but we picked it up to move forward when we came in. The project is to be completed within the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a pilot project already which has been very successful; it was installed to monitor two borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is going to cover 86 border posts in the country. We will be able to also monitor 1,400 illegal routes that are used for smuggling and all kinds of cross border criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigeria Immigration Service will work very closely with other services; when it comes to response, with the Air Force and the Army units deployed near the borders; with the Customs in terms of smuggling. The information will be available real-time 24\/7.&#8221;\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N52billion to monitor the country\u2019s borders. Speaking to pressmen after a meeting in Abuja on Thursday, Abdulrahman Dambazau, Minister of Interior, said the contract would cover 86 border posts and all the 1,400 illegal routes being used for smuggling and other crimes. He said the pilot system has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[11764,4797,1759],"class_list":["post-111106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-boarders","tag-fg","tag-nigerian-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}