Photo caption: National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.
The National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, is currently meeting with service chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies in Abuja.
The agenda of the closed-door meeting was not known at the time of filing this report.
The meeting follows reports alleging that US President Donald Trump issued a directive to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria.
The PUNCH had reported that the US President threatened to deploy military forces to Nigeria if the alleged genocide against Christians was not stopped.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump directed the “Department of War” to prepare for “possible action” if the killings continued.
Trump also warned that the United States would halt all aid and assistance to Nigeria if President Bola Tinubu’s administration failed to end the alleged persecution and killing of Christians.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now-disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians,” he wrote.
Ribadu is expected to brief newspaper editors and top media executives after the meeting.
Earlier, The PUNCH reported that the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said the NSA and the security chiefs would address the media on the threat issued by the U.S. President.
According to him, the briefing will “provide adequate response to the allegations of genocide and update the media on ongoing government efforts to contain insecurity and other vices.”
