Tinubu meets service chiefs over worsening insecurity in Nigeria

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, over the prevailing security situation ravaging the country.

The meeting is said to be a comprehensive review of the security situation in the country, as well as across several theatres of operation.

Those at the meeting are the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar; Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede; and the Chief of Defence Intelligence, Lieutenant General Emmanuel Undiandeye.

Others include the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Adeola Ajayi; Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mohammed Mohammed; Special Adviser to the President on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka Famadewa (retd); and the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunde Disu, along with other representatives of the security agencies.

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

In a July 7 operation, three Nigerian Air Force aircraft tracked a convoy of approximately 300 heavily armed terrorists on motorcycles moving from the Sunke-Kumbo axis toward Gummi and conducted precision airstrikes on the formation.