President Bola Tinubu on Monday held a closed-door security meeting with the nation’s security chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies.

The meeting, which was held at the State House in Abuja, had in attendance the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede; the Chief of Army, Lt. Gen Waidi Shaibu; the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Idi Abbas; the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Anele; the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Ajayi; the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed, and the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu.

Also present was the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, alongside other top security officials at the State House.

While the details of the meeting are yet to be made public, it comes in the wake of renewed and worrying attacks by insurgents in various parts of the country.

The meeting also comes in the wake of the fallout from a Saturday Nigerian Air Force airstrike in Borno’s Jilli Market along the Yobe border, which reportedly recorded casualties, mostly civilians, while targeting Boko Haram.

While the military has insisted that it carried out airstrikes against insurgents in the location, there have been outcries, particularly from opposition leaders, over the report that innocent civilians were caught in the military crossfire.