President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday held a closed-door meeting with Nigeria’s Service Chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja.
Hobnob News gathered that the meeting commenced at about 6:01 p.m. local time, as the security chiefs arrived at the villa’s forecourt and were ushered into the President’s office.
This engagement marks President Tinubu’s first formal meeting with the nation’s military high command since the swearing-in of General Christopher Musa (retd.) as Minister of Defence on December 4.
Although the specific agenda of the meeting has not been officially disclosed, it comes amid heightened security concerns across the country, including the continued captivity of 115 students abducted from a Catholic boarding school in November.
The meeting also follows President Tinubu’s recent declaration of a national security emergency, during which he approved fresh recruitment into security agencies and ordered the withdrawal of police personnel from VIP protection duties to strengthen frontline policing.
In addition, the security talks are taking place days after the Senate approved the President’s request to deploy Nigerian troops to the Republic of Benin following reports of an attempted coup in the neighbouring country.
