President Bola Tinubu on Thursday convened a closed-door meeting with top security chiefs at the Presidential Villa in Abuja to assess the country’s worsening security situation and ongoing military operations across various regions.
The high-level meeting focused on reviewing security challenges nationwide and evaluating efforts by the armed forces and intelligence agencies to address emerging threats.
Among those in attendance were 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 Chief of Defence Intelligence, Lieutenant General Emmanuel Undiandeye.
Also present were 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); Inspector-General of Police, Olatunde Disu; and other senior representatives of Nigeria’s security and intelligence agencies.
The meeting came just 48 hours after troops of Operation FANSAN YAMMA, supported by the Air Component of the Joint Task Force (North West), thwarted what the military described as a major terrorist offensive in Zamfara and Katsina states.
According to the military, the operation carried out on July 7 saw three Nigerian Air Force aircraft track a convoy of about 300 heavily armed terrorists travelling on motorcycles from the Sunke-Kumbo axis toward Gummi before launching precision airstrikes that disrupted the planned attack.