President Bola Tinubu has directed the immediate preparation of a comprehensive national threat assessment alongside a rolling five-year strategic defence operations plan, aimed at strengthening coordination across Nigeria’s defence, intelligence and security agencies.
His media aide, Bayo Onanuga, said in a statement that the directive was given on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja, with the President stressing the need for a coherent framework to tackle evolving security threats nationwide.
The Special Adviser on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka Famadewa, will coordinate and provide secretariat support for the 11-man committee set up by Tinubu to draft the plan.
Other members include the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa; the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Muhammad Matawalle; the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede; the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Waidi Shaibu; the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke; and the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Idi Abbas.
The DSS Director-General, Tosin Ajayi, and the NIA Director-General, Ambassador Muhammed Muhammed, also sit on the committee.
