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President Bola Tinubu is currently holding a closed-door meeting with service chiefs over the ongoing wave of insecurity.
The meeting is reported to be taking place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Present at the meeting are Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyode; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal Kelvin Aneke; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Idi Abbas; Chief of Defence Intelligence, Major General EAP Undiendeye; and Chief of Army Staff, Major General Waidi Shaibu.
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Also in attendance are the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Tosin Ajayi.
As of the time of filing this report, details of the meeting are yet to be ascertained.
In other news, The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has criticised the Tinubu administration over what it called fiscal vandalism, saying the president is borrowing far more than his predecessor, Late Muhammadu Buhari, and placing Nigeria on the edge of a financial disaster.
This was contained in a statement on Sunday signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi.
According to him, the ADC said President Tinubu’s government has borrowed more in two years than Buhari did in eight, warning that the country’s total debt could hit ₦200 trillion before the end of 2025.
“The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is deeply concerned by the Tinubu administration’s dangerous obsession with borrowing. What Nigerians are witnessing, following the approval of a fresh $21 billion in foreign loans, is nothing short of a calculated decision to mortgage the country’s future just to cover up the failures of today.
“Under President Buhari, Nigeria borrowed an average of N4.7 trillion per year, and even that caused widespread concern. But under President Tinubu, borrowing has jumped to N49.8 trillion per year. In just two years, this administration has borrowed more than ten times what Buhari borrowed in the same timeframe,” the statement read in par
