President Bola Tinubu on Monday held a closed-door meeting with the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede, and a French General at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The president described Monday’s engagement as part of intensified collaboration on Nigeria’s security situation.
In addition to his earlier engagement, the President also held an emergency security meeting with the service chiefs and intelligence heads.
Those in attendance at the meeting include the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Staff, the Director-General of the Department of State Services, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, and the Inspector-General of Police.
The meeting with the French officer, which began at around 2 pm, was the President’s first official engagement since his return from Bayelsa on Friday.
It comes three weeks after the President announced that France had agreed to supply military equipment and training to Nigerian forces battling insurgency in the North-East.
Meanwhile, The All Progressives Congress Initiative for Good Governance has praised President Bola Tinubu for making efforts to strengthen transparency, accountability and efficiency in governance, particularly in the administration of military pensions.
According to a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, the group’s National President, Musa Tsoken, commended the President’s approval of the appointment of retired Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Adamu as Chairman of the Military Pensions Board,