Tinubu, Service Chiefs Hold Closed-door Security Meeting

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with Nigeria’s military high command, intelligence chiefs and top security advisers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, amid ongoing operations against terrorists and bandits across the country.

Naija News understands that the meeting, which lasted more than two hours, was said to have focused on a comprehensive review of the security situation nationwide and developments across several military theatres of operation.

Officials familiar with the agenda told PUNCH Online that the President received briefings on ongoing security operations and emerging threats in different parts of the country.

The State House announced the meeting through a photograph released on Thursday evening but did not immediately disclose the resolutions reached during the engagement.

Those present at the meeting included 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 Chief of Defence Intelligence, Lieutenant General Emmanuel Undiandeye.

Also in attendance 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.

Other representatives of the country’s security agencies also attended the meeting.

The high-level security meeting came two days 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.

During the July 7 operation, three Nigerian Air Force aircraft reportedly tracked a convoy of about 300 heavily armed terrorists riding motorcycles from the Sunke-Kumbo axis towards Gummi.

The military subsequently conducted precision air strikes on the formation.

In a separate operation, troops neutralised Alhaji Tukur, identified by military authorities as a notorious bandit commander and younger brother of wanted kingpin, Alhaji Shehu Bagiwaye, in Dogon Kade.