Crime has no ethnicity, let us not assign blame or point fingers — Tinubu

June 12, 2026

President Bola Tinubu

ABUJA — President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to avoid ethnic profiling and blame games in the fight against insecurity, insisting that crime has no ethnicity and the country must remain united to defeat terrorism and criminality.

Speaking on national security, in his Democracy Day address, Tinubu said Nigeria has significantly upgraded its military operations, moving from joint training exercises with allies such as the United States, France and other European countries to precision-based targeting of terrorist networks.

He disclosed that in Arege, Borno State, security forces successfully degraded the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) command structure as part of ongoing counter-terrorism operations.