President Bola Tinubu on Thursday evening convened a security meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, comprising the entire military command, intelligence leadership and top security advisers, including his Special Adviser on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka Famadewa (retd.).
Officials with knowledge of the meeting’s agenda told newsmen that Thursday’s gathering was a comprehensive review of the security situation in the country and across several theatres of operation. The closed-door engagement, which lasted for over two hours, was announced by the State House in a photograph released yesterday evening.
This is coming days after the United States announced it has withdrawn most of the troops it deployed to Nigeria for a recent counterterrorism mission after a joint operation with Nigerian forces targeting fighters of the Islamic State group in the North-East region.
While the Presidency did not issue a statement on the details of the meeting as at the time of this report, the meeting is coming 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.
In the North-East, troops of Operation Hadin Kai repelled a fresh assault on the Mairari military base on July 1, following coordinated attacks on military formations, some security analysts describe as a deliberate campaign by ISWAP to overrun forward operating bases and degrade the operational capacity of troops. At least 13 attacks on military bases have been recorded in 2026 alone, predominantly across Borno State.
At a previous security meeting in March, Defence Minister Musa told State House correspondents that the armed forces had come to brief the President on a series of attacks, adding that security forces had risen to the occasion.
