Tinubu orders five-year defence plan to counter Nigeria’s security threats

….to submit report in 90 days

President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate preparation of a comprehensive National Threat Assessment and a rolling five-year Strategic Defence Operations Plan to strengthen coordination across Nigeria’s defence, intelligence and security capabilities.

Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said the President directed Adeyinka Famadewa, his Special Adviser on Homeland Security, to coordinate and provide secretariat support for the 11-man committee the President constituted to draft the strategic defence operations plan.

According to Onanuga, the committee which includes Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Adviser, also has Christopher Musa, the Minister of Defence, Bello Matawalle, Minister of State for Defence;.

“Others are 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 statement said the director-general of the Department of State Service, Tosin Ajayi, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Muhammed Muhammed, are also members of the committee.

President Tinubu gave the directive on Wednesday at the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja, stressing the need for a coherent framework to respond to evolving security threats nationwide.

The president said the new framework would provide a common understanding of the threats facing the nation, the…