Tinubu Orders 90-Day National Threat Assessment, Strategic Defence Plan

President Bola Tinubu has directed Nigeria's top military and intelligence leaders to produce a unified National Threat Assessment and a five-year Strategic Defence Operations Plan within 90 days, aiming to close coordination gaps that have long hampered the country's security response. The directive was issued on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, during a Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House in Abuja.

Tinubu constituted a committee under the coordination of his Special Adviser on Homeland Security, Major General Adeyinka Famadewa, who will also serve as its secretary. The President stated that operational requirements are currently being considered separately across agencies, without a common threat assessment or medium-term plan. This fragmentation, he said, makes coordination more difficult and limits the efficient use of resources.

The National Threat Assessment will identify the principal threats facing Nigeria, determine their relative urgency, and establish operational objectives for addressing them. The Strategic Defence Operations Plan will then translate that assessment into concrete priorities with clear resource and capability requirements. The committee...