President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called for the urgent reactivation of a regional standby force to confront rising insecurity across West Africa and the Sahel, stressing the need for deeper intelligence sharing and coordinated action.
Speaking through the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, at a high-level security conference in Accra, Tinubu urged regional partners to leverage Nigeria’s National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Abuja, as a central hub for intelligence coordination and operations.
The President reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to regional stability, warning that terrorism, organised crime, and cyber-enabled threats are expanding due to weak coordination and political divisions. He highlighted Nigeria’s existing collaborations with African and regional intelligence units and noted the 2025 MoU with the African Union on counterterrorism.
Tinubu also cautioned against terrorist use of cyberspace for misinformation and urged countries to adopt Nigeria’s cyber-monitoring infrastructure. Beyond military action, he called for addressing root causes such as poverty, marginalisation, and governance gaps, while urging ECOWAS and AES states to rebuild inclusive security cooperation.
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