President Bola Tinubu is holding a closed-door meeting with Nigeria’s Service Chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja, against the backdrop of growing worries over the country’s internal security situation.
The high-level engagement is coming at a time of heightened concern across the country, as security challenges continue to dominate national discourse.
Checks at the Villa indicated that the Service Chiefs arrived at the forecourt early in the evening and were immediately ushered into the President’s office for the meeting.
The meeting was reported to have commenced at about 6:01pm local time, with security tightened around the vicinity of the Presidential Villa.
This marks the first meeting between President Tinubu and the military high command since the recent shake-up in the nation’s defence leadership.
The engagement follows the swearing-in of General Christopher Musa (retd.) as Minister of Defence on December 4, a development seen as signalling a renewed strategy for Nigeria’s security framework.
Although the agenda of the meeting has not been made public, it is taking place at a critical moment. More than 100 students abducted from a Catholic boarding school in November remain in captivity, a situation that has generated widespread concern and calls for urgent government intervention.
The closed-door session also comes weeks after President Tinubu declared a national security emergency, during which he ordered the immediate recruitment of additional personnel into the country’s security agencies.
At the time, the President also directed the redeployment of police officers attached to VIPs, as part of measures aimed at reinforcing internal security operations.
Additionally, the meeting is being held shortly after the Senate approved the President’s request for the deployment of Nigerian troops to the Benin Republic.
The troop deployment followed reports of an attempted coup in the neighbouring country, further heightening regional security anxieties.
