The Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Tosin Adeola Ajayi, met with President Bola Tinubu on Friday night to provide an update on Nigeria’s security situation.
The closed-door briefing at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, presented a comprehensive assessment of current security challenges and ongoing counter-measures across the country.
Ajayi’s meeting with Tinubu comes amid renewed concerns over attacks in several states, including the recent abduction of over 300 students and teachers from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Niger State.
The government has intensified efforts to curb banditry, terrorism, and other emerging threats, with the DSS regularly providing intelligence reports to the presidency.
Information Minister Mohammed Idris emphasized that the government is taking significant steps to address security challenges, acknowledging that people are being killed but stressing that no administration gains from allowing such violence.
He dismissed suggestions of religious genocide, citing jihadist extremism in the North-East as a 16-year struggle affecting both Christians and Muslims.
