{"id":8518,"date":"2026-11-04T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/unpaid-forest-guards-raise-questions-over-nigerias-security-strategy-businessday-ng\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:15:48","slug":"unpaid-forest-guards-raise-questions-over-nigerias-security-strategy-businessday-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/unpaid-forest-guards-raise-questions-over-nigerias-security-strategy-businessday-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid forest guards raise questions over Nigeria\u2019s security strategy &#8211; Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s expanding forest guard programme faces a hard question: Can the federal and state governments consistently fund the personnel needed to protect vulnerable rural communities?<\/p>\n<div class=\"aero-paywall-locked\" data-aero-post-id=\"1215025\" readability=\"7\">\n<p class=\"aero-paywall-locked-placeholder\">Subscribe to keep reading<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-author-bio\" readability=\"10.503225806452\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Unpaid-forest-guards-raise-questions-over-Nigerias-security-strategy-Businessday-NG.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a288fc52f58beb7ba0cc86e3f04f90ecd22003f844c3a9e1e05dd32cd4778176?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo bday-author-bio__avatar\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div readability=\"16.232258064516\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/author\/obidike-okaforbusinessday-ng\/\">Obidike Okafor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obidike Okafor is an award winning, seasoned journalist and content consultant.  Obidike has left his mark on the global stage, writing for prestigious publications in Nigeria, the UK, South Africa, Kenya, Germany, and Senegal. He also  has experience as an editor, research analyst and podcaster.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-google-badges\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=businessday.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Unpaid-forest-guards-raise-questions-over-Nigerias-security-strategy-Businessday-NG-1.jpg\" alt=\"Add BusinessDay as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbUoxYzJsdVpYTnpaR0Y1TG01bktBQVAB?hl=en-NG&amp;gl=NG&amp;ceid=NG%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Unpaid-forest-guards-raise-questions-over-Nigerias-security-strategy-Businessday-NG-2.jpg\" alt=\"Follow BusinessDay on Google News\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Businessday NG<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s expanding forest guard programme faces a hard question: Can the federal and state governments consistently fund the personnel needed to protect vulnerable rural communities? Subscribe to keep reading Obidike&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}