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Tinubu Issues 90-Day Deadline for National Threat Assessment and 5-Year Defence Plan
ABUJA – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given Nigeria’s defence, intelligence and security leadership 90 days to produce a comprehensive National Threat Assessment and a Five-Year Strategic Defence Operations Plan to overhaul the country’s security response.

The directive is aimed at moving the nation’s security architecture from a reactive approach to a proactive, anticipatory system that prioritizes risks and aligns resources with clear national objectives.

The 90-day deadline was disclosed on Wednesday in Abuja by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, while inaugurating the Presidential Committee on behalf of the President.

According to Akume, the two documents must be submitted within 90 days for the President’s consideration and approval, and members were charged to approach the task with professionalism, objectivity, urgency and patriotism.

New Strategic Shift

Akume said the initiative has become necessary due to the complex and interconnected nature of contemporary threats, including kidnapping for ransom, banditry and insurgency, which can exploit gaps between institutions.

He noted that while the Armed Forces have recorded recent successes, Nigeria can no longer afford to respond to threats only after they emerge. The new framework will establish a clear link from threat to objective, from objective to capability, and from capability to measurable outcome.

The National Threat Assessment will objectively evaluate existing and emerging threats and their strategic implications, while the Five-Year Plan will translate that assessment into prioritized operational requirements – including forces, equipment, intelligence, logistics and personnel – and identify capability gaps.

The plan will operate on a rolling basis and be reviewed annually.

Committee Members

The committee will be coordinated by the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka Famadewa (rtd).

Members include the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (rtd); Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle; Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Olufemi Oluyede; Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Waidi Shaibu; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Idi Abbas; IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu; DSS DG Tosin Ajayi; and NIA DG Ambassador Muhammed Muhammed.

The inauguration comes 24 hours after President Tinubu ordered a coordinated rescue operation following the latest mass abduction in Niger State, describing perpetrators as “enemies of peace and humanity”.
SOURCE: The Sun Nigeria