Following the abduction of worshippers after Friday’s Juma’at prayer in communities across Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, President Bola Tinubu has ordered security and intelligence agencies to conduct a coordinated rescue operation.
The Nigerian Army (NA) has relocated its tactical headquarters in Plateau State to the Mangu Local Government Area of the state for two weeks, following the recent assault on the Bi Mper community, where 25 people were killed.
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the Special Adviser on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka A. Famadewa (rtd), to prepare a comprehensive national threat assessment and also develop a five-year strategic defence operations plan aimed at strengthening coordination among Nigeria’s defence, intelligence and security agencies.
National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, is leading a high-level Nigerian delegation to Washington, D.C., the United States of America (USA) for the USA-Nigeria Joint Working Group meeting, as both countries deepen security cooperation on counterterrorism, defence and national security.
The Nigerian Army has stated that the rate of terrorists and their associates surrendering in the Northeast has risen by 213 per cent as a result of military operations of Operation Hadin Kai.
The Department of State Services (DSS) has released and compensated a carpenter, Mustapha Marwana, the sum of N3 million, who was arrested over alleged links to the Ansaru terrorist group.
