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The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, has resigned his appointment with immediate effect.
His resignation was contained in a letter addressed to President Tinubu and dated December 1.
The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, confirmed this on Monday.
The presidential spokesman said Abubakar resigned on health grounds.
In other news, Former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai (rtd.), said the fight against insurgency in Nigeria will remain incomplete unless citizens recognise that the war is as much theirs as it is the military’s.
Buratai stated this on Saturday at the 18th Annual International Security Conference and Induction Ceremony of the Institute of Security, Nigeria, held at the Faculty of Social Sciences Auditorium Complex, University of Lagos.
Speaking with journalists on the sidelines of the event, the former Army chief stressed that the public often misunderstands the true nature of insurgency, insisting that the threat is embedded within communities and cannot be resolved by military action alone.
“But what most people fail to understand is that insurgency is the people’s war. It’s not only the military in the people’s war,” he said. “You’d be surprised that amongst us here, there may be one or two bandits or Boko Haram members.
Buratai, who led counter-terrorism operations during the peak of the Boko Haram crisis, also reflected on Nigeria’s security trajectory, saying measurable improvements were made between 2015 and 2021, particularly in recovering territories once controlled by insurgents.
“You know how we built up from 2009 up to 2015, isn’t it? Was there any change between 2015 to probably 2021 or 2024? Was there any improvement? Yeah, you should acknowledge that,” he noted.
