President Bola Tinubu on Monday held a closed-door meeting with the Service Chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja.
Our correspondent gathered that the meeting commenced at about 6:01 p.m. (local time), shortly after the security chiefs arrived at the villa’s forecourt and were ushered into the President’s office.
The engagement marks Tinubu’s first meeting with the military high command since the swearing-in of General Christopher Musa (retd.) on December 4.
Although the agenda of the meeting has not been made public, it comes amid growing security concerns, particularly the continued captivity of 115 students abducted from a Catholic boarding school in November.
On November 26, President Tinubu declared a national security emergency, ordering fresh recruitment into security agencies and the withdrawal of police personnel attached to VIPs.
The meeting also follows the Senate’s recent approval of the President’s request to deploy Nigerian troops to the Republic of Benin in response to an attempted coup in the neighbouring country.
