President Bola Tinubu is currently in a meeting with his military service chiefs and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) at the State House in Abuja.
The meeting, which is coming in the midst of escalating security challenges in parts of the northern region of the country, especially Plateau, Benue and Borno states, where hundreds of lives have been lost in the last few weeks.
It is also coming just a couple of days after President Tinubu approved the immediate establishment and deployment of units of forest guards to beef up security across 1,129 forests country-wide.
Those in attendance include the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla; and the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun among others.