Tinubu meets service chiefs over worsening insecurity

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with the nation’s security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, as the Federal Government reviewed the worsening security situation across the country.

The meeting focused on a comprehensive assessment of security challenges and developments across various theatres of operation.

Among those in attendance were the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar; Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff, Olufemi Oluyede; and Chief of Defence Intelligence, Emmanuel Undiandeye.

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Also present were the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Adeola Ajayi; Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mohammed Mohammed; the President’s Special Adviser on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka Famadewa (retd.); and the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunde Disu, alongside other security officials.

The meeting came 48 hours after troops of Operation FANSAN YAMMA, supported by the Air Component of the Joint Task Force (North West), foiled what the military described as a major planned terrorist offensive in Zamfara State and Katsina.

According to the military, the operation, carried out on July 7, involved three Nigerian Air Force aircraft that tracked a convoy of about 300 heavily armed terrorists travelling on motorcycles from the Sunke-Kumbo axis towards Gummi before launching precision airstrikes on the convoy.

The outcome of Thursday’s security meeting was not immediately disclosed, but it comes amid growing concerns over persistent attacks by terrorists, bandits, and other armed groups in several parts of the country.