President Bola Tinubu held a more than two-hour closed-door security meeting with Nigeria’s top military and intelligence chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday, amid a renewed wave of attacks on security installations.
Those present included National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, Chief of Defence Staff General Olufemi Oluyede, Chief of Defence Intelligence Lieutenant General Emmanuel Undiandeye, DSS chief Adeola Ajayi, NIA chief Mohammed Mohammed, and Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Disu, alongside other senior officials.
The meeting followed a July 7 military operation in which Nigerian Air Force jets tracked and struck a roughly 300-strong convoy of armed terrorists moving between Zamfara and Katsina states. Troops separately neutralised bandit commander Alhaji Tukur, brother of a wanted kingpin, in Dogon Kade.
In the northeast, troops repelled a fresh assault on Mairari military base on July 1, part of what analysts describe as an intensifying ISWAP campaign against forward bases. At least 13 such attacks have hit military installations in 2026, mostly in Borno State.
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