President Bola Tinubu directs the immediate preparation of a comprehensive national security threat assessment and a rolling five-year strategic defence operations plan. The initiative is aimed at strengthening coordination across Nigeria’s defence, intelligence, and security capabilities.
Tinubu tasks his Special Adviser on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka A. Famadewa, with coordinating the work and providing secretariat support for an 11-member committee. The outlets report the president’s instruction as an order to develop planning documents that can guide future defence and security operations over the next five years.
While both reports largely align on the main decision, they emphasize different phrasing around scope and framing—one describes it as a “five-year security threat assessment” and “defence plan,” while the other focuses on “national threat assessment” and a “rolling strategic defence operations plan.” Neither article provides additional details on timelines, budget, or specific committee outputs beyond the planning mandate.
