Tinubu orders preparation of Nigeria's five-year security threat assessment, defence plan

President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate preparation of a comprehensive National Threat Assessment and a rolling five-year Strategic Defence Operations Plan to strengthen coordination across Nigeria’s defence, intelligence and security capabilities.

The president’s Special Adviser on Homeland Security, Adeyinka Famadewa, will coordinate and provide secretariat support for the 11-man committee the president constituted to draft the strategic defence operations plan.

Other members of the committee are the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; the Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa; the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle; the Chief of Defence Staff, Olufemi Oluyede; the Chief of Army Staff, Waidi Shaibu; the Chief of Air Staff, Sunday Aneke; and the Chief of Naval Staff, Idi Abbas.

The Director-General of the Department of State Service, Tosin Ajayi, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Muhammed Muhammed, are also members of the committee.

President Tinubu gave the directive on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja, stressing the need for a coherent framework to address evolving security threats nationwide.