BY REJOICE CHINAZA CHIKEZIE, NOVEMBER 20, 2025 | 08:42 AM
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced new security measures in response to recent attacks across the country.
Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information and Internal Security, said on Wednesday in a briefing that the steps follow the killing of a senior Army General, the abduction of schoolgirls in Kebbi State, and the attack on a church in Kwara State.
According to him, the incidents show the scale of the threat facing the country.
He added that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has postponed his trip to the G20 meeting in South Africa to focus fully on the security situation.
Idris said the president has ordered the military and the police to deploy more personnel to Eruku and the wider Ekiti local government area of Kwara State.
He noted that Vice President Kashim Shettima is currently in Birnin Kebbi to meet the governor, security chiefs, traditional rulers, and families of the abducted schoolgirls.
He said the vice president was accompanied by APC national chairman Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, humanitarian affairs minister Bernard Doro, women affairs minister Imaan Suleiman Ibrahim, and NEMA director general Zubaida Umar.
The minister said the president has placed security agencies on ‘the highest alert ever’ with a directive to ‘pursue and eliminate terrorists, bandits, and criminal elements wherever they may be.’
He said the president also instructed security forces to ‘rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls and reunite them with their families.’
Idris warned against attempts to frame the country’s security problems as a religious conflict.
He said such claims are ‘factually inaccurate and dangerously counterproductive,’ adding that terrorists target Nigerians of all faiths.
'Nigeria is a multi-faith nation where freedom of worship is guaranteed and must be protected.'
He urged Nigerians to avoid misinformation and division.
'The federal government is using all available resources to win the fight against insecurity,' he said.
He expressed optimism that ‘the abducted girls will be rescued and returned home safely.’
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