Convening the Security Council before to his travel to India, Tinubu

At the State House in Abuja on Monday afternoon, President Bola Tinubu presided over a meeting of the National Security Council. The reporter learned that the meeting, which was kept under wraps, was called to discuss the state of security and to give President Tinubu a briefing before he leaves for New Delhi, India, later tonight in preparation for the G-20 summit, which is set for September 9–10.

⁎⁣⁣⁣The meeting on Monday took place in the President’s conference room and was called by Tinubu precisely three months after he called the now-retired service chiefs for his first security meeting.

Since taking office on May 29, 2023, it is his third. ⁎⁣⁣⁣The worst security threat to Nigeria is the banditry that is wreaking havoc in its North West and North Central regions, according to a recent assessment from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

⁏⁎Banditry and terrorism have put the North East and North West of Nigeria on edge, according to the account titled “The question of definition: Armed banditry in Nigeria’s North-West in the context of international humanitarian law.

“⁏⁎Although millions of people had been displaced and approximately 350,000 people had died as a result of terrorist attacks, at one point more people had died as a result of bandit activity than from Boko Haram militants.

Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa, Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Taoreed Lagbaja, Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, and Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla were in attendance at the security meeting.

Abubakar Badaru, the Minister of Defence, and Bello Mattawale, his Minister of State, were also in attendance.⁎⁣⁣⁣As of this report, none of the attendees had consented to speak with the media.