President Bola Tinubu on Thursday, convened a security meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, attended by the entire military command, intelligence leadership, and top security advisers, including Major General Adeyinka Famadewa (retd.).
Officials familiar with the meeting’s agenda told the press that Thursday’s meeting was a comprehensive review of the country’s security situation across multiple theatres of operation.
The State House announced the closed-door engagement, which lasted more than two hours, in a photo released Thursday evening.
Present were the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.); Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Isa; and the 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.); and the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunde Disu, along with other representatives of the security agencies.
Tinubu calls the meeting two days after troops of Operation FANSAN YAMMA, supported by the Air Component of the Joint Task Force (North West), disrupted what the military had 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.
