•Tinubu in security council meeting
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently in a meeting with his military service chiefs and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) at the State House in Abuja.
The meeting, which is coming in the midst of escalating security challenges in parts of the northern region of the country, especially Plateau, Benue and Borno states, where hundreds of lives have been lost in the last few weeks, reports The Nation.
It is also coming just a couple of days after President Tinubu approved the immediate establishment and deployment of units of forest guards to beef up security across 1,129 forests country-wide.
Among those in attendance are Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla; and the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun among others.
Although the details of the meeting have not been disclosed, discussions are expected to focus on the recent resurgence of insecurity across the country.
The meeting is taking place before the president’s planned visit to Rome on Saturday, where he is set to attend the inauguration mass of Pope Leo XIV, following his invitation by the Vatican.
It would be recalled that the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, announced in a statement that the president will depart Abuja for Rome tomorrow for the inauguration ceremony.
Onanuga also made known that the President Tinubu will attend a solemn mass marking the beginning of the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Bishop of Rome and the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
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